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If he paid for the water, who are we to judge?

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If he paid for the water, who are we to judge?

You can leave your faucet open 24/7 and it will show up in your water bill and you will pay for it, but it doesn't make it okay. Or do you want to say that rich people are allowed to waste water?

I've said on the news site, but as much as I want to be in that crowd and get drenched with water (cause that looks so fucking fun), it is a waste

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If he paid for the water, who are we to judge?

Water is a common good it is an important resource for the cultivation of the land and life in general. In times of drought it is a scarce resource and even more important, wasting it in such nonsense should not be allowed.

We don't care that he paid, the question is mainly why we authorized it and why he had this shitty idea in times of drought.

that's a lot of water

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If he paid for the water, who are we to judge?

you're missing the point

This is extremely unnecessary and the way they seem to be ignoring the criticisms doesn't really give a very good image to Psy.

I rarely agree with Knetz, but this time they're right.

i mean, just because theres droughts in some parts of the country doesnt mean its a problem where the concerts are held, find it hard to be upset without knowing the actual specifics of it.

edit: and 300 tons water would be about 300k liters, not really that much. Its just enough to grow about 150kg of rice...

The issue is the optics of using this much water when regions of your country are experiencing a drought.

It comes off as being tone deaf to issues impacting your fellow country men

Another way to look at it is that manufacturing 100k cd 's uses the same amount of water (300 000 liter) as one of his concerts.

Now if only people were as upset about that, at least people gets cooled down at the concerts, unlike cds that serve no purpose at all. Kpop industry alone wasted 171 million liters of water printing useless discs last year.

It is a huge waste of water especially considering circumstances. But ngl that looks so fun.

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I think you are missing a point here:

1) it's unnecessary for a show, you can hold a concert without wasting so much drink water. Keep in mind that 300 tons is for 1 show only, i don't know how many of them he's gonna hold

2) currently, SK (some regions) is suffering from drought

3) there are health concerns regarding covid AND water (not in this articlt, but you can see more articles on allkpop main)

Also, where did you get info about 300 000 liters of water for CD production? i'm curious

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Now, i said i dont know the specifics of this case, so yes, if in fact that water could have been used to help farms or alleviate water shortage sure, its wasteful as hell and dumb.

If on the other hand its in another region entirely and the water in question would never come to use where its needed anway, i think its outrage just for the sake of outrage. Most people reacting to this dont even have an understanding of just how much/little 300 tons of water actually is.

I get that some people in affected regions could be upset because some other in a region that has no shortage seems to be wasting it. But from my point of view most of it is outrage for the sake of outrage and hypocrisy on a massive scale when looking at how much water we as individual person waste every day (in first world countries that is), by how we live, what we buy and consume, stuff thats really not necessary as well.

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As for the cd production:

Recording Artists Leave a Plastic Legacy — Plastic Pollution Coalition

The more you stream, the less potential plastic pollution.

www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org

Compact Discs: An Untapped Resource

CDs & DVDs produced a staggering amount of plastic.

www.gonimble.com

K-pop albums sold 57 million copies in 2021

The Nation's Leading Newspaper

mb.com.ph

lets just say water waste is the least of its problems.

Why doesn't he just use grey water that's been treated to be safe or something? I feel like that must be possible to do now days.

(Bellagio's fountain in Vegas uses grey water)

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Why doesn't he just use grey water that's been treated to be safe or something? I feel like that must be possible to do now days.

(Bellagio's fountain in Vegas uses grey water)

Im guessing because of health/safety regulations, probably the same rules applies that water parks etc have to abide by