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By that reasoning, sex workers should be able to operate from any home too. Or carpenters. Or mechanics. Or pubs. Or concerts... There is a reason zoning exist

By that reasoning, sex workers should be able to operate from any home too. Or carpenters. Or mechanics. Or pubs. Or concerts... There is a reason zoning exists.

forrestthewoods 5y ago
> By that reasoning No! Bad! Stop that!! The fact that I think some currently illegal things should be legal is not evidence that anything and everything should be legal. Similarly the fact that some things are made illegal is not automatic evidence or reasoning that another, different thing should also be illegal. Different things are different. The reasons why one thing should be legal or illegal may or may not apply to a different thing.
- _carbyau_ 5y ago
  LOL! I am not your dog. :-) The "reasoning" was that a hotelier business was fine to run in the middle of a community. I merely listed other example businesses as a lede. You seem to think there are reasons for why one business might be ok but others aren't. Care to detail those reasons? Or are you worried that those reasons also apply to AirBnB?
lordnacho 5y ago
As always it's a matter of judgement which businesses are ok and which are a nuisance. Any number of desk job type businesses would not worry me much. Strip joints tend to be open late at night and have lots of traffic, so that's the other end of the spectrum. AirBnB for me is not necessarily at the desk job end but they're also not at the strip joint end. I think it's up for debate.
- _carbyau_ 5y ago
  The matter of judgement comes down to "Who's judgement?" AirBnB clearly thinks it is fine. The people on either side of AirBnB renting may think it is fine. People living next door don't get a say, and yet have to deal with the social outcome. They want a say. Why do they want a say? Reputation with your neighbours is the outcome of repeated interaction - prisoners dilemma-ish in action. Humans prove time and again their behaviour can't be guaranteed when they perceive they are anonymous, or the interaction is a once off. I think "it is up for debate" as to how to proceed in future. I don't think it is up for debate that we can continue without change.
tremon 5y ago
What reasoning? The GP's post is completely devoid of any reasoning, for as far as I can see.

By that reasoning, sex workers should be able to operate from any home too. Or carpenters. Or mechanics. Or pubs. Or concerts... There is a reason zoning exists.

forrestthewoods 5y ago

> By that reasoning No! Bad! Stop that!! The fact that I think some currently illegal things should be legal is not evidence that anything and everything should be legal. Similarly the fact that some things are made illegal is not automatic evidence or reasoning that another, different thing should also be illegal. Different things are different. The reasons why one thing should be legal or illegal may or may not apply to a different thing.

_carbyau_ 5y ago
LOL! I am not your dog. :-) The "reasoning" was that a hotelier business was fine to run in the middle of a community. I merely listed other example businesses as a lede. You seem to think there are reasons for why one business might be ok but others aren't. Care to detail those reasons? Or are you worried that those reasons also apply to AirBnB?

lordnacho 5y ago

As always it's a matter of judgement which businesses are ok and which are a nuisance. Any number of desk job type businesses would not worry me much. Strip joints tend to be open late at night and have lots of traffic, so that's the other end of the spectrum. AirBnB for me is not necessarily at the desk job end but they're also not at the strip joint end. I think it's up for debate.

_carbyau_ 5y ago
The matter of judgement comes down to "Who's judgement?" AirBnB clearly thinks it is fine. The people on either side of AirBnB renting may think it is fine. People living next door don't get a say, and yet have to deal with the social outcome. They want a say. Why do they want a say? Reputation with your neighbours is the outcome of repeated interaction - prisoners dilemma-ish in action. Humans prove time and again their behaviour can't be guaranteed when they perceive they are anonymous, or the interaction is a once off. I think "it is up for debate" as to how to proceed in future. I don't think it is up for debate that we can continue without change.

tremon 5y ago

What reasoning? The GP's post is completely devoid of any reasoning, for as far as I can see.