I have been working in Northern Wisconsin this week, where it is relatively quiet. Of course, there are exceptions to the quiet. That reminded me of a project I wanted to undertake: Making a study of the ethics of human-made sound. I would start with an Aristotelian gathering and classifying different kinds of sounds. (What types of human-made sound are there? When is a sound a noise? ) Then I would try to examine human-made sound through the lenses of ethical ideas.
But I get ahead of myself. For now, just the short version: Let's say you are on a small, quiet, northern Wisconsin lake and you are wondering whether your radio is a sound or a noise to other people enjoying the lake: Its a noise.
And if you are wondering if you have an equal ethical warrant to make that noise as another person has to be free of it: No, you don't.
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