04-18-2017, 12:41 PM
Canard, you definitely didn't offend me. Â I just think more people shouldn't worry about what other people are doing when it doesn't effect them. Â I probably should have kept that to myself though. Â So, sorry about that.
Jamincan, I agree you don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy on the street.  But just because someone can do something, doesn't mean they should.  As a general ethical rule (and not law) I think people shouldn't take/post pictures of other people without their knowledge/permission.  There are definite exceptions, and people are free to feel differently than I do on what those exceptions should be.  Edit: (Construction crews are generally an ok exception to me because they're working on a public project that people rightly very interested in.  But note, I'm personally not ok with people that post things like construction workers taking a break or having lunch.)
The car is also different because they're much more likely to cause problems in a construction site. Â But I don't think its actually a double standard. Â If one of those pedestrians had gotten hurt because they were trespassing on a construction site, I think a bunch of people would be laughing at them too. Â Personally, I wouldn't be laughing at either. Â But I'd also think both people had no one to blame but themselves.
Anecdote, we had a locally closed road around here for quite awhile and there was a period when it was open-but-not-officially-open with no construction happening. Â I got a nail in my tire during this period of time and was talking to a guy at the shop who was repairing it. Â He started going on a big rant about how constriction crews are lazy and never clean up nails like they're suppose to and how I should report them and yadda yadda yadda. Â I had to sheepishly tell him it wasn't their fault, and it was almost certainly my fault for driving where I shouldn't...
Jamincan, I agree you don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy on the street.  But just because someone can do something, doesn't mean they should.  As a general ethical rule (and not law) I think people shouldn't take/post pictures of other people without their knowledge/permission.  There are definite exceptions, and people are free to feel differently than I do on what those exceptions should be.  Edit: (Construction crews are generally an ok exception to me because they're working on a public project that people rightly very interested in.  But note, I'm personally not ok with people that post things like construction workers taking a break or having lunch.)
The car is also different because they're much more likely to cause problems in a construction site. Â But I don't think its actually a double standard. Â If one of those pedestrians had gotten hurt because they were trespassing on a construction site, I think a bunch of people would be laughing at them too. Â Personally, I wouldn't be laughing at either. Â But I'd also think both people had no one to blame but themselves.
Anecdote, we had a locally closed road around here for quite awhile and there was a period when it was open-but-not-officially-open with no construction happening. Â I got a nail in my tire during this period of time and was talking to a guy at the shop who was repairing it. Â He started going on a big rant about how constriction crews are lazy and never clean up nails like they're suppose to and how I should report them and yadda yadda yadda. Â I had to sheepishly tell him it wasn't their fault, and it was almost certainly my fault for driving where I shouldn't...