[jvanderbot]

I like your take, as it provides a place for those who oppose it without making the massive leap from "I can find reasons to support my distaste for it" to "No one anywhere ever should do it".

Not to get too political, but in the USA, I always romanticized states as the places where enough people could gather under the "I don't like X" banner and make their own way, without neighboring states trying to use federal law to ban it anyway.

We're way past that though, sadly.

[herbst]

I was travelling Spain this year and there was nowhere to hide. The most remote places turned into outdoor festivals and everywhere else everyone below 20 or so was shooting around. My dog hated it, I did too. I never saw fireworks, just "boooom" going on for days.

The real surprise was that there was no major place advertising to at least ban the "boom" things. And that it was going on for about a week.

Compared to that being loud one night, in a civilized matter, focusing on beautiful and not loud stuff would be a tame alternative.