Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote:
Eddy Nigg wrote:
[...]
Every time I come from shopping it's very inconvenient to put down the
shopping bags, grab for my keys and open the front door of my house.
Then pick up my bags again. After entering I have to lock the door again
(by convenience, if I want). But overall, what an inconvenience...why
did they put a door and lock there?
[...]
*Many* people do not lock their door after entering because the
perceived level of risk is lower than the inconvenience.
After writing that, I realized that there's a specific reason why I
don't lock my door after entering.
It's that someone else has perceived that problem ("people who don't
value the security brought by locking their door after entering more
than the inconvenience of locking the door") and has found a smart way
to mitigate it. The door of my appartement doesnt' have an ouside
handle. You can't enter without using the key.
This is a very smart solution, because if I'm outside the appartement
and want to enter, most of the time there's nobody else inside and I
anyway would have locked the door, so needed the key to open it.
If there's someone inside and I find it inconvenient to search for the
key, probably I can just call the person and ask him to open the door.
But if no one had cared about the problem, and just said "if people
aren't stupid, they'll lock the door", I might find myself in the same
situation as when I was younger in the house of my parents, where there
was an outside handle, and very often the door was unlocked, despite
that it did happen that we were all in the other side of the house and
someone really could have stolen something without us noticing.
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