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It seems to me one of the best ways to protect a sacred site would be to put a serious telescope upon it. As it restricts access for a host of other activities

• ilikehurdles 7y ago
  Limiting discourse to only your way or the highway is disrespectful and precisely how these protections are ignored. This time it’s a telescope, next time it won’t be. Perhaps the community wants to protect their sacred site from building a telescope as well. Ignoring that because you believe your cause to be more valuable than their home isn’t justified. It’s as nonsensical as claiming that the best way to protect against pregnancy is to get pregnant, it’s just doublespeak. We could level a bunch of suburbia all over the country and put telescopes there, and that would both remove a blight on the American landscape while protecting another untouched one. But this isn’t what we discuss because “their” sacrifice is much easier for us to agree on than ours. Like it or not, it’s the same colonialist logic that led to the genocide of the American natives.
  • Allower 7y ago
    >same colonialist logic that led to the genocide of the American natives Guess I missed the part where the telescope commits genocide.. To have discourse both parties have to be capable of rational discussion. Raving about religious nonsense is a terrible argument. If there's a better one by all means lets discuss it. Frankly the argument against putting a telescope here amounts to little more than a tantrum from a toddler.
• sergioj97 7y ago
  Even though I think that wouldn't persuade the protesters, it's an interesting point to make.