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Re:German town votes ‘No’ to street names by krapp on Monday February 04, 2019 @05:55AM (#19075326)
>People should be easily able to provide address without knowing or caring about local arrangements.

That's up to the locals. They have the right to insist you should care first about local arrangements before interacting with them.

Re:German town votes ‘No’ to street names by scotty79 on Monday February 04, 2019 @06:05AM (#19075372)
What if I'm a local but I don't care about other locals and their arrangements and I just want to get my damn package delivered from people who care about local arrangements even less than I do?
Re:German town votes ‘No’ to street names by krapp on Monday February 04, 2019 @06:14AM (#19075407)
Campaign harder for the next referendum, I guess, put up with it, or move.

I could understand it if the existing system were broken, but it doesn't seem to be. From what I can read, it seems to work, presumably people do get their mail and packages.

Re:German town votes ‘No’ to street names by scotty79 on Monday February 04, 2019 @06:25AM (#19075449)
> Campaign harder for the next referendum, I guess, put up with it, or move.

Or work around local arrangements using lat/long or plus codes or whatever naming scheme delivery companies will choose to use for your town...

Democracy (or any form of government) wouldn't last long if you couldn't work around regulations.

Re:German town votes ‘No’ to street names by brownbat on Monday February 04, 2019 @07:36AM (#19075783)
> They have the right to insist...

People have a right to share true information legitimately acquired without the constraints of governments or mobs in other jurisdictions.

Locals can't prevent foreigners from giving directions to their library or the best restaurant. Those are just facts of the world. Visitors are welcome to go discover a town then leave and tell their friends about it.

Then an addressing system is just a shorthand for that locational information. It's just a hash function or a lookup table. No one has a right to prevent others from using data structures to organize their thoughts.

All rights granted to some impose negative obligations on others. Those implied negative obligations should not conflict with other rights. Rights should promote the healthy functioning of society. Also, rights should promote freedom more than restriction.

A right to prevent others from discussing addresses without permission of locals conflicts with other rights, doesn't promote the healthy functioning of society, and creates far more restrictions than freedoms. I don't think it's a good right.