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The grandparent poster seems to be commenting about relative risk rather than personal expertise. You may not make a good elementary school teacher or administr

The grandparent poster seems to be commenting about relative risk rather than personal expertise. You may not make a good elementary school teacher or administrator, but it would make sense for you to have an opinion on how the school manages traffic. Certainly you wouldn't value my opinion since I don't live by the school and even if I had expertise in school traffic management I might not have your interests in mind. That said, I don't agree with the poster's attitude. (For the record, I live next to, and essentially in a large forest.) A controlled burn could get out of hand, but in general, controlled burns will do so less frequently than an unplanned wildfire if we aren't doing controlled burns. Or, in other words, whatever short term risk there is from a controlled burn near me is paid back by a reduced overall long term risk. Since I have no plans to sell my home (and even if I did, because I care about other people) controlled burns is a clear path forward from my point of view.

ceejayoz 5y ago
> it would make sense for you to have an opinion on how the school manages traffic No, we have traffic engineers for that. Decisions should be made based off expertise, not proximity.
- cgriswald 5y ago
  Indeed. Why even have voters?
  - fennecfoxen 5y ago
    To have some accountability for people who are supposed to make tough decisions and resolve tradeoffs in some responsible way. Notably this isn’t a direct democracy, where direct democrats have an unfortunate tendency to demand freedom from the consequences of the policies they themselves enact, and ask for the irreconcilable.
    - cgriswald 5y ago
      In order to do that, you have to have an opinion.
Teever 5y ago
Controlled burns are a great idea. drones that can quickly put out unanticipated fires are also a great thing. These ideas aren't mutually exclusive, I don't know why we are arguing about it.

ceejayoz 5y ago

> it would make sense for you to have an opinion on how the school manages traffic No, we have traffic engineers for that. Decisions should be made based off expertise, not proximity.

cgriswald 5y ago
Indeed. Why even have voters?
- fennecfoxen 5y ago
  To have some accountability for people who are supposed to make tough decisions and resolve tradeoffs in some responsible way. Notably this isn’t a direct democracy, where direct democrats have an unfortunate tendency to demand freedom from the consequences of the policies they themselves enact, and ask for the irreconcilable.
  - cgriswald 5y ago
    In order to do that, you have to have an opinion.

Teever 5y ago

Controlled burns are a great idea. drones that can quickly put out unanticipated fires are also a great thing. These ideas aren't mutually exclusive, I don't know why we are arguing about it.