LabelKing
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Not allowing 8-year olds to drive cars is not selfish...it is in the interest of the greater good. But dictating and enforcing rules on taste is far harder to do.
Hold on a minute...what do you mean "if" it exists???? Are you so myopic and cynical as to suggest such sentiments don't exist? It is roughly what Aristotle referred to as polity.
You think we should "dictate and [enforce] rules on taste"? Do you really think that society has a right to dictate and enforce taste in what someone does with a house he paid for that supercedes an individual's property rights? In other words, do you deny the latter in favor of the former? What happens when society "dictates" that it's not tasteful to be jewish? Do you form a non-profit altruistic society and lobby them to convert?
I think it is self-enforced. Most people are sheep and therefore have their taste dictated to them by default anyway, depending on where they get their influence. The problem lies in who's controlling the influence.You think we should "dictate and [enforce] rules on taste"?
I think we already do. I think you have it backwards...whatever you do with your real property, cannot supersede laws pertaining to what you can do with that real property. Legal obligations aside, having to endure looking at other people's bad taste is just one of life's challenges.Do you really think that society has a right to dictate and enforce taste in what someone does with a house he paid for that supercedes an individual's property rights?
I don't think you have the required knowledge of aesthetics to discuss this, please get away from thread ASAP. Thank you.
I know somebody who received a small Cezanne from their grandparents. Unfortunately, this was a disgusting person with an even more disgusting wife, and both are rather clueless. Somehow, they were able to basically destroy the piece by being so messy, smokey and disgusting that the combination of mold, smoke and humidity reduced the market value by about half, when they went to sell it to finance their disgusting little lives.
Who the **** wants a Colonial or Federal style house in Palm Beach?!
i've never understood people who spend tons to build new houses that look like old houses. progress, people. progress.