I attend school online. I don’t interact with other students as much as one would in a physical school, yet the utilized a discussion board in order to encourage “intelligent” conversation on a given topic. There were students who clearly had no understanding of how to interact cordially over the internet. There were morons who disliked the given prompt and talked about whatever they wanted. I used the board as a vehicle to share unpopular opinions on irrelevant topics with people who took no care to expose themselves to anything outside of their circles. One student stood out, however. He was as pretentious as myself, yet not as skilled at hiding it. He rambled on every discussion board. I reviled him and his assuming, broad generalizations.
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Since they belong to everyone, they tend to be overused or taken for granted. In what ways do you think noise pollution demonstrates the tragedy of the commons?
Now, I’m a nitpicking jerkass, so I’m going to tear apart everything he said.
“I believe that noise pollution can cause a noise tragedy” What? Cause a noise tragedy? What the fuck? Is that even English?
“9 times out of 10, most of the noises you hear can be quite annoying to others.” Ninety percent of the noises everyone hears are annoying to other people? Does everyone have Tourette’s Syndrome in your world? And, well to be completely honest, I don’t exactly understand what kind of probability system this guy is working with. He says “9 times out of 10” and then says “most” right afterward. And then he follows that up with “quite.” It’s as if he had a point but didn’t want anyone to tell him he was wrong so he only partially expressed it.
“For example: One of your next door neighbors or neighbors a few doors away from you” There was absolutely no reason to word this like that. He could have just said “neighbors”. The is the reason why the word count is insanely
Since they belong to everyone, they tend to be overused or taken for granted. In what ways do you think noise pollution demonstrates the tragedy of the commons?
Now, I’m a nitpicking jerkass, so I’m going to tear apart everything he said.
“I believe that noise pollution can cause a noise tragedy” What? Cause a noise tragedy? What the fuck? Is that even English?
“9 times out of 10, most of the noises you hear can be quite annoying to others.” Ninety percent of the noises everyone hears are annoying to other people? Does everyone have Tourette’s Syndrome in your world? And, well to be completely honest, I don’t exactly understand what kind of probability system this guy is working with. He says “9 times out of 10” and then says “most” right afterward. And then he follows that up with “quite.” It’s as if he had a point but didn’t want anyone to tell him he was wrong so he only partially expressed it.
“For example: One of your next door neighbors or neighbors a few doors away from you” There was absolutely no reason to word this like that. He could have just said “neighbors”. The is the reason why the word count is insanely