Watching a live performance such as a play, concert or sporting event is more enjoyable than watching the same event on TV. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?

In my opinion, the main and pretty much the only logical argument for the

ban

could be that

phone

conversations are often quite noisy and annoying for some

people

.

However

, I’d heavily disagree with that standpoint as crowded, populated

places

are already pretty loud so one

phone

call wouldn’t change much. Most

people

nowadays try to find a

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corner when talking anyways, plus actually enforcing the

ban

would be extremely hard and plain absurd, as trying to notice

people

talking over their phones in crowded

places

is almost impossible. There’s actually a much better solution to the problem which has already been implemented in a lot of different countries – special “silent” zones and wagons in public transport which you could notice in

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Central Ring metro. These offer calm

places

for those who are too tired of the constant noise. There’s no hard enforcement for these unlike the suggested bans, but they work just fine as-is. Unlike

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smoking bans, there are no possible health issues or long-term consequences related to talking on your

phone

in public

places

neither for you

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nor for

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others.

Phone

conversations are a too big part of our lives to

ban

them outright in public

places

. They are

also

surely but slowly being replaced by text messengers, as a lot of young

people

find them much more convenient to use. In

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I could say that thankfully,

this

ban

will likely never happen for the reasons mentioned above, which I think is good.

Such

weird laws that

ban

common actions should never be a thing as they will restrict our lives in absurd ways for the comfort of a very small self-entitled group of

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.