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by asdff 5 days ago
I will shit on your porch and you will have to respect my cultural decisions as you step over it.
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If you want to shit on your own porch, and while you're at it, redesign your porch to look like shit, more power to you.
See, the "your" in there is what we call a possessive pronoun. It indicates that something (in this case, my porch) is owned by someone (in this case, me). That makes what you are proposing doing a property rights issue, not cultural criticism.

Shit on your own porch all you want.

Fine, I will shit on the public sidewalk easement.
Again, that's public (shared), not yours.

Not sure how (or why) you've gone from "we shouldn't be judging other people's taste" to "I get to defecate wherever I want."

It is a subject of taste is it not?
It depends what you mean by "it". We were discussing how people style their own property, which, yes, is largely a matter of taste.

For some reason, you keep trying to shift the discussion to vandalizing someone else's property, which you don't own.

In that case, no, property ownership is generally not a subject of taste. Do you really think it is, asdff?

Fine, no poop. I will twerk in front of your house.
Huh