Re:Airbnb’s ‘Guerrilla War’ Against Local Governments
by dragonwriter on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @01:13PM
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> Simple conflict resolution works great with reasonable people, but those aren't the kinds of people blasting techno and screaming all through the night.
It may even be that more often than not, it is people where simole interaction would suffice on an individual basis, but there are two factors that still weigh in favor of summoning law enforcement:
(1) The social context of one where any individual you deal with would lose face by backing down to anyone without compulsory power, and
(2) Even if the above was not sufficient to tip the odds to “most probably individual interaction will not be productive”, the potential cost of interaction with “coked up aggressive young men” or the like doesn't require a very high probability that that is the scenario before it becomes an unacceptable risk even if the expected net benefit of individual interaction is positive.
It may even be that more often than not, it is people where simole interaction would suffice on an individual basis, but there are two factors that still weigh in favor of summoning law enforcement:
(1) The social context of one where any individual you deal with would lose face by backing down to anyone without compulsory power, and
(2) Even if the above was not sufficient to tip the odds to “most probably individual interaction will not be productive”, the potential cost of interaction with “coked up aggressive young men” or the like doesn't require a very high probability that that is the scenario before it becomes an unacceptable risk even if the expected net benefit of individual interaction is positive.