Yup, this lack of basic empathy is a big part of the tension. It's the same situation played out over and over in different contexts. Each side of every issue j

Yup, this lack of basic empathy is a big part of the tension. It's the same situation played out over and over in different contexts. Each side of every issue judges the other side by their worst constituents, imagined or otherwise. Now that whole side of the issue is just "villains". There are unreasonably NIMBY people, but virtually human being exhibits a minimum reasonable amount of NIMBYism. You can't bring harm to people's home and communities (concrete harm, societal harm, or statistical harm) and then call them names and declare their opinions and emotions invalid. I mean, you can - sometimes politics works that way. You shouldn't, morally.