cmhamilton
In all of the "righteous" anger at someone using a few bucks worth of water or electricity does anyone stop to consider the people who will eventually be their neighbours?
Out of petty annoyance against someone using what is yours are you genuinely happy to delay their build, possibly inflicting thousands of dollars of additional hardship with things such as having to pay more in rent or (in the case of electricity) refusing to consider the notion of negotiating access and demanding they use a generator instead?
....However if it's totalitarian points scoring in the name of "what's right" or "what's mine is mine dammit" that everybody is focused on then it is indeed a sad, sad world we live in today - I hope people who think that way never need a favour off someone else if things don't progress in the usual manner for something they'd like to do in the future, because what goes around does eventually come around.
Out of petty annoyance against someone using what is yours are you genuinely happy to delay their build, possibly inflicting thousands of dollars of additional hardship with things such as having to pay more in rent or (in the case of electricity) refusing to consider the notion of negotiating access and demanding they use a generator instead?
....However if it's totalitarian points scoring in the name of "what's right" or "what's mine is mine dammit" that everybody is focused on then it is indeed a sad, sad world we live in today - I hope people who think that way never need a favour off someone else if things don't progress in the usual manner for something they'd like to do in the future, because what goes around does eventually come around.
Sorry, but I wouldn't be the one "delaying their build". Their builder (who hadn't organised the water connection) would be. My conscience would be absolutely clear.
Righteousness has nothing to do with it; Manners has everything to do with it, though - and the builders and contractors around us apparently have no manners. We had our garden trampled, concrete and mortar slopped all over our landscaping, ignorant tradesmen using power tools next door at 5:00am, loud music blaring from utes parked nearby all day long, and I could go on and on and on...
The point is that people moan about this stuff, but don't DO anything, so nothing changes. Should I allow my sleep to be disrupted every freaking day because some ignoramus thinks it's OK to operate a nail gun outside the legal hours? I don't think so... a quick word to the offender usually sees them stopping. Am I "delaying my neighbour's build", because the framer acts like a two-year-old, cracks it and goes somewhere else for the rest of the day? He is contracted to do the work within a set timeframe. He is also obligated to obey noise pollution laws. Neither of those things are my problem - when he accepts the contract, he is bound to work within those constraints.
As for "what goes around, comes around" - that's probably true. So if I obey the law and don't steal, vandalise or otherwise harm my neighbour's property, I can expect the same in return? Great. Should be a nice, peaceful life then. So far it's working out just fine.