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by chroem- 1429 days ago
> That being said, _requiring_ cars and _allowing_ them are very different things. Being anti-bulldozing city blocks to put in 6-lane highways isn't anti-car, it's pro people!

That's a semantic argument that doesn't address the real problems that skimping on commuter infrastructure can cause. San Francisco and Seattle have both achieved some of the highest housing prices in the nation thanks to chronic underinvestment in highway infrastructure.
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narush 1429 days ago
Check out the book! You'll get a lot from it I think -- even if it's just a better understand of a different viewpoint :)
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chroem- 1429 days ago
No thank you: I don't care for content that's searching for evidence to support a preconcieved position. There is too much dogma and not enough pragmatism in this space.

I already get enough of their content on HN to recognize dogma when I see it. Quite frankly, it's a circlejerk where everyone else is wrong unless they follow the ST-scene's ideologically-founded prescriptions, and if you post evidence to the contrary you'll often get shouted down.

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multiplegeorges 1429 days ago
> There is too much dogma and not enough pragmatism in this space.

And rejecting other viewpoints out of hand isn't dogmatic?

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