specialeditionstudio: Yes. After the pile of trash has sat decomposing in the lot for about three months now, it was brought to their attention. If and when they address it will remain to be seen.
acemotel: No one ever asked you or anyone to clean up this mess. Your role is apparently just to sit behind your computer keyboard and spend time giving advice to people whom you've never met on how they are supposed to behave.
The rant was directed at the irresponsible people who dumped their trash in the lot and to express my disappointment that such a prominent location in West Seattle's business district could be so neglected by the people who have the responsibility with maintaining it.
I do plenty in this community to be a good citizen, including often cleaning up garbage that isn't mine. However, it is an unreasonable standard to expect people to be responsible for everything that is wrong. I hate that some dog owners let their mutts go right in the middle of the sidewalk and leave it there. Yet I shouldn't be expected to stop and clean up excrement whenever I see it. And for instance, I hate that my gay friends don't have the same legal marriage rights that I do. But that doesn't mean I can't articulate my disdain for this situation without just resolving it myself. We can each only do so much within our own sphere.
To me "good citizens' shouldn't be saying "If you don't like it then fix it yourself because your concerns are not MY job" but instead how can we work together to fix this. Seems to me that if you have time to tell me to go pick this up then you could get off your duff and help.
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