Those devices are literally painful for me to be around. I view them as a scourge and will consider not washing my hands if there’s no soundproofed alternative.
"This device saves trees"
No, it doesn't. We should be (and AFAIK often are) at the point that paper towel pulp is coming from forests we replant. Also, I don't know, maybe those dryers "save trees" but the paper towels provide a forcing function for someone to always have a couple of ready forests on hand, which seems better?
Or, hey, we could go with your interpretation that I'm a raging asshole that thinks you don't know how to wash your hands. Whatever floats your boat.
I was being ever so slightly hyperbolic in my statement about not washing hands. For the record, I do use the time-honored air-dry, shake-hands-vigorously and/or dry-on-pants methods when circumstances demand.
It's probably that you're participating online in a discussion about hand-dryers, and, by proxy, washing your hands -- and expressing your disinterest in using them (hand dryers) .
It might even be the fact that you've said that you considered not washing your hands all together when posed with no alternative -- a danger to others besides yourself.
I find your tone to be entirely unwarranted and rude.
'Just saying.'