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Re: Significant part of former LIRR Wading River Branch to become rail trail |
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Posted by RonInBayside on Sun Apr 12 17:37:30 2009, in response to Re: Significant part of former LIRR Wading River Branch to become rail trail, posted by SilverFox on Sun Apr 12 17:18:45 2009. "But it is not for you to dictate what their opinions of others should be or how long it should take them to acquire your more "enlightened" ways"I am not dicatating anything - I'm merely pointing out that their attempts to hide are ultimately futile and that the population will change regardless of their abilities to deal with it. Developments like the trail will then happen whether they like it or not. "Just because you were better able, equipped, enlightened, or fortunate enough not to be burned by your adaptability doesn't mean others should be vilified for their cautiousness or their tolerance of intolerance." Actually, yes they should, especially when that intolerance leads to a lower quality of life for their neighbors because things like empty weedy lots and abandoned trackways can't be cleaned up. "They don't have fifteen thousand people living cheek-to-jowl there to create discord, distrust, and prejudice" Actually, they do. And they do live cheek by Jowl, because the front garden I step next to on the stairway is right next to (actually, and above or below the level of) their neighbor's. The houses are beautiful, but they are set close to each other because putting them into the mountain was hard to begin with. You could learn a lesson from that were you to open your mind a little. "But I do hope you give me credit for resolving that it is a good thing if the people directly involved in it think it is good." The people involved in it are not all of one mind and do not all think alike. But I predict that it will work out OK in the end. It looks like, from the article, that it's going well. "I, personally, don't see the good in it, and that doesn't make me a racist." Yes, it does. |
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