Or not. Too much social, too much contract, is being assumed. Its just a theory, not the reality. It’s a BAD kind of BS. Moreover, it NEVER stop advancing because those lusting to run the show are like the Danes of old: pay the Dane Geld and they never go away. It doesn’t matter WHY you surrender this or that to them! only that once they get it they’ll be (possibly literally) damned before they’ll let it go.
It, frankly, doesn’t matter if society runs smoothly. Smooth, like control, is an illusion. We’ve too much lubricant. Grit in society’s gears is proof that people are free. Well oiled evidence that they are not.
And no where is that more clear than with children. An abundance of tolerance towards childishness in adults is one thing, but the want of tolerance towards childishness in children, especially babies as we are talking about here, is another.
We are seeing a so-called culture where reality has been flipped upside down: many tolerate childish adults and chide against childish children.
Want to deal with a crying baby next door? Offer help to the parents out of your own time or means with whatever may be lacking. Don’t appoint another official to do it for you. Chances are they are at their wits end and maybe, if young parents, you know something that they don’t. Babies usually have legitimate causes why they are crying. If you pay attention the parents may have too.
Our opinions differ.
I have no problem with the infants who cry. That’s their nature. My sole problem is with the parents who don’t deal with the problem. If the child’s crying is disturbing other people, soundproof the room. Doubletape sound deadeners to the walls until the problem is over. Don’t open the window to air the room out and wake the neighborhood. Air condition the child’s room. Certainly it costs. They chose to have children or they can trade some of their home choices for the rights of other people.
As for children, they’ll all throw tantrums to a certain point. Again, its the parents who need to deal with it, not the child. The parent needs to remove the problem in the best way for the child’s safety and emotional growth. if the parents don’t know how to do it, no person is going to trust going up to them and telling them how to do it. You can’t trust that the pressure they’re under dealing with the child isn’t going to spread onto anyone who makes suggestions.
That’s what authority is for. To be in the position to make such suggestions without threats unless they, in turn, are threatened.
All sympathy for the children. Very little for parents who don’t deal with the problem.