> anyone who isn’t an emergency responder with a phone that makes noise a selfish asshole

Please don't fulminate on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Today, I consider anyone who isn’t an emergency responder with a phone that makes noise a selfish asshole.

That is a terrible thing to judge people for, and you are wrong for doing so.

Funny you said that. I have not heard a phone ring around me in a very long time. Between 2004-2012 that's all you heard in public. In the latter part of that, music ringtones just wasn't a thing any longer. It was the generic iPhone ringtone

> Today, I consider anyone who isn’t an emergency responder with a phone that makes noise a selfish asshole.

You’re probably getting a lot of false positives. Is it ok to answer a vibrating phone around you, or do I need to leave the vicinity first?

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