The "lack of pretty" comes from seeing someone absorbed in a way that diminishes them, makes them smaller, makes them weaker. Plenty of people would say "I don't care if you think I'm too weak", and I wouldn't care either, I wouldn't even make the judgement, if their lives didn't also affect mine.
It's fine when people derp out on Facebook. It's not fine that even non-profit orgs with the money to spare can't be arsed to make their own actual website. It's fine when people can't be arsed to have actual email and went for google. It's not fine that I can't write them without google turning that into ad juice. It's fine that some people can't deal with anything but bit-sized distraction, it's not fine that their economic and political decisions affect me.
It's the same principle why you're not allowed to drive drunk, expect it's really hard introduce that principle into a society of mostly drunk drivers. What they consider benign and their right I consider a threat to me.
So if any aspect of my life affects you, then therefore the way I walk affects you? Or are you okay with the walking, but not with some other stuff you had on your mind?
No, people metaphorically slumping over and giving out is what affects me. The way they walk is not the symptom that I care about, that's why I mentioned votes and wallets first thing. There is a difference between "I don't care if I walk like a zombie as long as I'm not one in my brain", and "I don't care how I walk, no matter the reason". You may not care, but that does not make me not care.
Plus:
> The problem of text-walkers has become such a problem that cities such as Antwerp in Belgium, has introduced ‘text-walking lanes’ so that they do not irritate or endanger other pedestrians.
> The scheme is the brainchild of a local mobile phone business, Mlab, which says many smartphones are broken in collisions between pedestrians.
> China has already started segregating footpaths with special lanes for those using their phones.
> Initiatives are also being introduced in a number of European countries to place fixed warnings on the ground to alert pedestrians to the presence of roads and tram tracks.
The streets are already plastered with ads, now they'll also get plastered with reminders of just how cringe worthy so many people became so quickly. I know this is arrogant, but I'm just as unapologetic about that as smartphone addicts are. Kinda like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE&t=8m18s
Just parsing here: the walking doesn't affect you, but it is a symptom of some other "slumping over" tendency which you abhor, and which furthermore has other, more severe, effects on your lived experience?
It's fine when people derp out on Facebook. It's not fine that even non-profit orgs with the money to spare can't be arsed to make their own actual website. It's fine when people can't be arsed to have actual email and went for google. It's not fine that I can't write them without google turning that into ad juice. It's fine that some people can't deal with anything but bit-sized distraction, it's not fine that their economic and political decisions affect me.
It's the same principle why you're not allowed to drive drunk, expect it's really hard introduce that principle into a society of mostly drunk drivers. What they consider benign and their right I consider a threat to me.