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OmyGod. I writing on the side I don't even believe in. I'm the devil advocate. O give me strength or at least the lack of scruples. Loud music is not an environmental toxin. It can't be. Toxins taken in proper does kills. When was the last time you heard someone actually and directly killed by loud music killed. By the administration of loud obnoxious music. It has never happened. You would hear about it in the multi national media outlets. You would hear about in the blogs and the weird news features. It has not even happened once in this incredible and incredibly stupid day and age.

Loud music can be annoying, but annoying is very different from toxic. Environmental toxin is a useless and valueless rhetoric. It is an overkill description of a sometimes annoying thing. Sometimes annoying. Sometimes it is even amusing to hear and watch someone drive up with loud music. It brings and exchange of looks among the onlookers. It may be prompt, a "you go, man" from the spectators.

Loud music can prompt a sense of fun and community to this fast paced world, even for a moment. Unexpected loud music can even make your day. It may also help to reflect upon yourself. It may be the mirror that you have been avoiding for some time now. The loud music may force you to look at yourself as a stressed out curmudgeon that you have become. It may show you that your sense of fun has departed you.

Loud music can actually destroy a car. One time the Mythbusters TV serious attempted to dismantle a can by the power of woofers and sub-woofers. For safety's sake, no person was in the car at the time of the test. The car could not be dismantled by the sub sounds, because the weakest links gave out and let the sound escape the car. That however does not prove one way or the other if loud music is an environmental toxin.

Sound can kill and destroy. One of the drawbacks of sonic flight (faster than the speed of sound) is that it can produce sonic booms, which can destroy glass for miles around. It is also one of the challenges that prevent trains that go faster than sound. Some people think that the passengers could not even survive the shock produced by such a feat. That however is not the same as loud music.

One of the things that really annoy me are the young people with the cheap headphones or earplugs that leak bad music like it was an STD virus. They are really annoying in the commuter trains, the subways, and the buses. Annoying and inconsiderate. What they are listening to however is not an environment toxin. It is sweet or exciting music to the one playing it.

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