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My neighborhood did not stop changing when I moved in. I don't see why it should stop because someone else moved in. A neighborhood is not a fixed, static thing
by Kalium 6y ago
My neighborhood did not stop changing when I moved in. I don't see why it should stop because someone else moved in. A neighborhood is not a fixed, static thing. I understand that this is an unusual, uncommon, and perhaps even uniquely privileged perspective.
When my neighbors resist change in a way that forces change elsewhere or affects our entire city, those effects are real. These outcomes affect other people's real lives in real ways. It's very much their skin in the game.
Or maybe the people downwind of a coal-burning plant have no skin in the game.
- munificent 6y ago> My neighborhood did not stop changing when I moved in. I don't see why it should stop because someone else moved in. This is true, but that doesn't strictly imply that you have no participation in how it changes. The way a neighborhood changes is the sum of all of the people exerting forces upon it. This is an iterative system that you are embedded in as well.
- Kalium 6y agoOh, I'm well aware that I participate in how it changes. My neighborhood also changes due to forces around it, around the city, the county, and so on. My point is merely that change in a neighborhood is a natural and normal thing. A great many of the forces involved will be external, as it is rare that a neighborhood is in fact completely isolated from the world in every way. I am attempting to set this up in opposition to the idea that we were presented with: that people have a right to hold their neighborhoods static against all things and we are obligated to honor that. In my opinion, neither is true.