(September 16, 2015 at 11:55 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(September 16, 2015 at 11:47 am)Pyrrho Wrote: The analogy completely fails because the guy is leaving urine on the ground. If he took it with him, his analogy would be better, but otherwise, the place can smell of urine for some time afterwards. Just go down into the subway in New York on a hot summer day, and if you have entered the wrong station, you will get the point very well. The first time I rode the subway in New York was a very hot summer day, and the stench of urine was so great I almost wished someone would knife me to put me out of my misery, but the subway is not as dangerous as some people seem to believe.
Now, if a woman were squirting her milk on the ground, she, too, should get arrested, as that would probably stink up the place as well.
I dunno... I think it'd still be wrong if he peed in a bucket in public and then took it with him. The difference between the 2, and why they can't be compared, is because there's a difference between eating and peeing/pooping lol. We don't all go to the same building to take dumps together over conversation, now do we?
I think it depends very much on the particular circumstances. If there is no public restroom available to him, well, when one has to go, one has to go. Also, people can go out in public with catheters in them. Typically they then are carrying their urine with them in a container outside of their bodies. That can be done in a way such that others will not normally notice.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
