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0 pointssoco3y ago0 comments

A massive out-of-city dumpster is only possible if the authorities are looking the other way, and this is valid for Taiwan, Germany or Romania just the same. Yes individuals are dumping the garbage but it's the society as a whole accepting it, maybe with minor moaning.

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komali23y ago· 2 in thread

I think you're minimizing here the realities of policing, policy, law, law enforcement, and societal engagement and enforcement of cultural values.

There is no country on earth with no crime. All countries on earth thus have authorities looking the other way on crime. All societies on earth are accepting of crime.

See the absurdity? Thus I think your post is over generalizing.

EDIT: I'm realizing that you might be a person who would make arguments about "personal responsibility" that consider nothing about environment and instead place wholesale blanket judgements on people for situations they find themselves in. Stop me if I'm extrapolating too far and being unfair, but when seeing any overweight person, would you think to yourself, "that person is accepting of their weight" ?

hutzlibu3y ago

When there is a big illegal dumbster, it would be trivial to stop it from growing.

One police patrol car(or a camera) and one serious fine would stop it. And it did indeed stop most of it. It used to be common, but is not anymore here in germany, because people like me really get upset about that shit and so there is that anger energy that makes the institutions act.

If no one cares, than the dumbsters would just grow again.

komali23y ago

Here's one remote location a 30 minute drive from taipei city center https://goo.gl/maps/VXSbNc8ZmkqWCiH17

As you can see, the mountains are snaked with literally hundreds of kilometers of such roads, all within 30 minute driving distance from taipei.

You believe this can be policed with one car still?

You accuse us of not caring?

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