No, because the noise of people just living life is not comparable to cigarette smoke. You can also use earplugs if you’re that sensitive to regular noises of people living around you. That kind of sensitivity is not normal though.

I can’t stop cigarette smoke from seeping in to everything in my home if I leave the windows open. Also, smoking is not a necessary part of life. You can’t live silently.

It’s not the same.

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dhosek 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Maybe if they spent less money on cigarettes they could afford other things.

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throw20251220 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Maybe. Go and ask them. Maybe they are truly awful people, maybe they are old or ill, or disabled. Go and talk to them, then start labelling them x and y. See? No one got the idea. All “you” want is that nobody bothers “you”. But thinking from the perspective of others? No, that’s too difficult. The best realisation I had in life was that I am pissing others off for some reasons, as they piss me off for some other reasons. Unfortunately the majority of the lovely “society” doesn’t have that realisation.

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nkrisc 6 hours ago | parent [-]

> You can shut windows.

They could just not smoke, or smoke far away from the building where it won’t bother anyone.

> Where else do you think they are going to do it?

I don’t know, I’m not the one smoking. That’s their problem to solve.

I don’t think they’d like it if I left a bucket of rotting fish on my balcony.

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		> I don’t know, I’m not the one smoking. That’s their problem to solve. And this is exactly the problem. YOU are the problem. Your attitude is completely selfish and obnoxious, like your own concerns and value judgments should be the center of the universe. You are completely incapable of compromise, which is a necessary part of getting along with others.