Clarification

A few posts ago I made reference to "Let the neighbors decide!" Not.

"...the idea that anyone still believes that it's fine for "neighborhoods to decide." Why not simply say "let business decide."?

I was not clear. My intention was to poke a little fun. The idea that we should simply get rid of city-wide rules and "let the neighborhood decide" strikes me as just about as misguided as "let business decide."

Both business owners and neighbors (not "neighborhoods) have, of course, a moral and legal right to set forth their views and to argue for them via all political and legal means.

What I meant to express is the view that "let the neighborhood decide" allows the triumph of concerns not very different in nature (i.e. narrow, sectarian & selfish) as does "let business decide." And that's a bad idea in my book.

Comments

[JRoth]

Thanks for the clarification, David. Perhaps if I hadn't been reading it at 5:30 in the morning while bouncing my new daughter, I would have picked up on your sarcasm.

[Brian Miller]

Dittos. And, I don't have Jroth's excuse