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Spotted at Hackaday is a story on positive reinforcement to train crows to pick up litter:
A Dutch startup wants to teach the crow population to pick up cigarette butts in exchange for bird treats.
The whole Corvidae family of birds is highly intelligent so it shouldn’t be a problem training them that they will get a reward for depositing something the Hominidae family regularly throw on the street where the birds live. This idea is in turn an evolution of the open-source Crow Box.
For some, leveraging the intelligence of animals is more appealing than programming drones which could do the same thing. A vision system mixed with a drone and a manipulator could fulfull[sic] the same function but animals are self-repairing and autonomous without our code. The irony of this project is that, although it's probably fairly easy to train crows to recognize cigarette butts, the implementation hinges on having a vision system that can recognize the butts in order to properly train the crows in the first place.
(Score: 2, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday October 10 2017, @04:38PM
Nah, the health argument is the most common so it's the one I addressed. As to addressing yours: you have no right written anywhere, even in etiquette manuals, to not be offended by others unless they are intentional in their offense. Most smokers are anything but intentionally offending you. They simply want a five minute or so break from their day, preferably somewhere out of the cold and rain but they're willing to put up with even those to accommodate non-smokers.
There is very much a line of circumstance beyond which accommodating you ceases to be honoring a reasonable and polite request and becomes putting up with an absurd proposition from an asshole.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.