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Re:Stripe to donate $1M to California Yimby by underwater on Thursday May 03, 2018 @06:21PM (#16990536)
Smoking is not a good comparison. There’s not an objective truth that is the “right” policy for housing. Different groups are trying to optimise for different things.

Saying “not in my backyard” is acknowledging that a problem is real, but hoping that solutions can be achieved in a way that doesn’t affect their lifestyle.

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Re:Stripe to donate $1M to California Yimby by closeparen on Thursday May 03, 2018 @10:24PM (#16991763)
>Different groups are trying to optimise for different things.

While this is true, there is an objective truth about the directionality and magnitude of the cause-and-effect relationships involved, and contradictory statements about these relationships (some of which are necessarily false) dominate the discourse.

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