It's the same principle as when some want to filter the entire internet to protect a small minority from reaching content that could shock them (often porn). It feels less like tyranny of the majority and more like democracy. Being in the minority in a vote should not be confused with being abused by the majority like you do, because that dilutes the recognition for cases where it really happens.
On the other hand, people already suffer because they have problems with their deliveries, visitors etc.
It's not like people will suffer
when their house suddenly gets a
proper address.
Like if you told the French they should all start speaking english to better interact with the international business community, or if you told programmers they should start wearing dress shirts so they look like professionals.
People become deeply attached to all kinds of arbitrary things, e.g. the particular shade of red used by their favorite sports team, or the exact shape of the cookies their family has baked for Christmas every year.
Both of those are also true btw.
For the French, I don't know, but you could argue that it would improve the French economy I suppose.
However, for programmers, I don't see the benefit: programmers do not have any trouble these days finding jobs, and in fact are in high demand regardless of how they dress. Dressing more "professionally" doesn't seem like it would actually help them any, so why bother?
The problem is not always the direct change, but the infrastructure and public mindset change. Add a filter, and now adding things to it is much easier. Germany for better or worse is very much privacy minded, even more so that us neighbors (and compared to the US or asian countries we're very privacy minded). They basically have no google maps coverage because of it, for exemple. So a change in that direction will impact them.
Are you kidding me? 6 German police officers were taken out of their job because they have threatened an ethnic Turk, attorney. They have threatened her new born baby by his name while even none of her neighborhoods know the babie's name. And how did they found that the police did it? Apparently few hours ago the police officers have queried her and her babie's name from their database.
So, while Germans think that they mind their privacy they have no idea that they live in none private country. Germany is not really different from other European countries in term of privacy. Who cares about your shopping habits? Will someone going to point you a gun for shopping or for not using DNT header in your web browser or for using a credit card? Police have all citizens' addresses, names, phone numbers, relatives. And police have guns to point at citizens and arrest them just because. Can you hide your name and address from German police? No.
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/frankfurt-seda-basay-y...
https://www.hukukihaber.net/dunyadan/turk-avukata-tehditleri...
Those are the same concept. One is just supposed to be good while the other is bad.
And the world is becoming increasingly homogenized so I’m delighted to see some people pushing back.
I fail to see how this is the case here: visitors to the town are getting lost because their address scheme makes no sense at all except to the locals. There's a good reason every other city and town in the whole country (presumably) has adopted the building-number / street-name convention (and in most other countries as well).