July 23: Butts out, Butts in. Plus other letters to the editor GlobeDebate
: A key element of Canada’s dementia strategy should be raising awareness about advance directives. I work in residential care, and one of the hardest, most heartbreaking issues is decision-making around goals of care. When loved ones, the de facto substitute decision-makers, have received no direction from their family member, it is difficult to refuse life prolongation at all costs.
: I live in the downtown core. Cars, taxis, bikes, streetcars, buses move hundreds of people as they drive past, day and night. Virtually no noise. But motorcycles often provide not only sudden but deliberate noise pollution. Construction noise can be a nuisance, but at least it has definite start and stop times, and you know it will be over in a year or two. Motorcycle noise is 24/7, year after year.
Funny thing, but when police are patrolling, drivers of motorcycles and souped-up cars don’t feel the need to put on the full vroom-vroom-vroom. Noise-boosting modifications for vehicles should be illegal, and not available for purchase. Why is it so easy for these 24/7 deliberate noise-polluters to disturb so many people?I don’t understand why we continue to tolerate this form of assault, this vandalism of our neighbourhoods and shared spaces. If noise junkies want noise, they should buy headphones and play engine sounds as loud as they like. Unfortunately, the narcissistic purpose of noise is to assault others.
Even some “silent” cyclists can be obnoxious – at least the ones who carry on shouted conversations with each other as they pedal by. How one experiences any noise is relative to the background, and we are certainly getting the obnoxious experience here. Toronto is not alone.
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