BY ROGER M. BALANZA
The days are numbered for ‘Frank Sinatras’ who torture neighbors with their loud, lousy singing on audio components or videoke machines.
Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said he is refining his proposed
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anti-nuisance ordinance to include loud singing, a perennial object of complaints against videoke bars.
Duterte earlier proposed his anti-noise ordinance following complaints against “bora-bora,” motorcycles whose mufflers bark loud, ear-splitting roars.
The vice mayor said he is putting stronger teeth to his proposal to include loud singing even in housing subdivisions.
I am warning those who say they can do anything inside their house who will challenge the ordinance, he said at the Ato Ni Bay television program on Skycable on Tuesday.
The right to freedom of hapiness is subject to the right of others, he said, meaning that neighborhood calm should be amply protected against lousy, loud singing that torture the ears.
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PUBLISHED IN THE DURIAN POST NO.79, Sept 26-Oct. 2, 2011
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I totally Agree. Considering the rights of the population is more important than the right of one.
I respectfully disagree (though I will defend your right to think and speak your mind). We must be VERY CAREFUL when mixing terms such as “individual” and “population” as it relates to rights.
Individual rights are not to be infringed. A person’s “sphere of influence/privilege/right” should not overlap that of another. What Duterte said was correct, “The right to freedom of happiness is subject to the right of others.”
Rights of the population, however, can be interpreted to fit any agenda. I see this happening in the U.S. where individual rights are stripped in the name of national security or for the “greater good”…population vs. individual.
No one individual’s pursuit of happiness should reduce another’s pursuit of happiness within a framework of laws. There is no need for thousands upon thousands of laws and ordinances. There are only ten good laws I can think of that are true and pure, and these can be summed-up into just two: 1) Love God and 2) Love neighbor.
If what you are doing violates either of these…stop it.
Jade,
I understand your intent. The point being made is the preservation of individual rights as opposed to the removal of rights in the name of the “greater good.”
In this case, no “right” exists to disturb his/her neighbor with loud, obnoxious, intoxicated singing in the middle of the night.
I hope this really pushes through. Aside from the loud singing, my neighbors play the drums and electric guitar without considering others schedule. I work at night, so I hope to get ample rest during the day. But it’s impossible to do this because I have all sorts of neighbors who make noise in all possible ways you can think of. It’s as if they are allergic to peaceful environment.