Reason #1,001 For Landmarks To Exist
Blogger Transfer is hatin’ this building and so are we. Now if someone could just tell us where it is. Answer: Wyckoff between Smith and Court. Thanks, Peter. Bad Volume [Transfer]
Blogger Transfer is hatin’ this building and so are we. Now if someone could just tell us where it is. Answer: Wyckoff between Smith and Court. Thanks, Peter.
Bad Volume [Transfer]
Iceberg, I recommend some more schooling for you:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22social+contract
Um, iceberg, you live as a citizen in the US, which is a nation of laws.
That fact alone means that you are already a part of the social contract, one that guarantees everything you have around you that perhaps you take for granted.
The Constitution, all federal, state and local laws are part of the social contract. I cannot believe I am having to explain this to anyone older than high-school age.
We accept some limits on individual freedoms in exchange for the greater good. Without social contract, there are no laws or government, only anarchy.
This is the precise reason why private property is enabled to exist: because other individuals accept the larger body of laws that govern that designate your property as yours, and not just theirs at their whim. They can’t go around stealing, killing, etc.
final addendum to above:
…especially where harm to the health of other citizens with their own rights is involved.
The issue here is smokers foisting their personal choices on others, everywhere they go, even despite hazards posed to themselves and others. Kinda selfish and irresponsibly destructive, no?
Social contracts exist for a reason.
It is illegal to burn tires on private property as well. Private property does not grant license to do anything under the sun. Believe it or not, the laws of the land even extend to private property.
“Having a preference or a belief does not automatically mean it’s OK to legally enforce your preference or belief on others.”
Heh, um, isn’t this in conflict with your belief about smoking, then?
9:02,
Of course there are more important things in life than bad architecture, but this site doesn’t claim to be about the most important things in life. It is, among other things, about architecture though.
I think the building is ugly, but I don’t want to see the government forbidding buildings like this. Just as I hate cigarette smoke but don’t want it banned; don’t want my children exposed to violent media but don’t want the FCC or anyone else to ban violent media; love America but don’t believe people should be jailed for flag burning.
Having a preference or a belief does not automatically mean it’s OK to legally enforce your preference or belief on others. That’s not a complicated concept.
I’m glad to see this post turned around. I was beginning to think there’s something wrong with ME for thinking there are more important things in life than bad architecture.
Just FYI, I’ve lived on this block of Wyckoff Street for almost a decade after living in Brooklyn Hts for a few years. Yes, that building is ugly but the majority of the homes are lovely and well-cared for. For me, I’d take this block over the Heights anyday. The block, and the people who inhabit those homes are wonderful. “Sesame Street,” my brother-in-law calls it.