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Originally Posted by jamesqf
The problem with that "trick" is that you're condemming yourself to a pretty miserable life.
Nope. The problem is that there's too many people, no matter what sort of people they happen to be. A city full of dedicated pacifists of your preferred racial/ethnic/gender mix is still a city full of people - and even if you magically removed the people, it'd still be a lifeless conglomerations of concrete, asphalt, and steel.
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Alone in the sticks is where misery lays. Where things go to die. Man has always built cities. Get a clue.
And your blanket condemnation evinces what? Profound ignorance is the kinder, gentler response.
I don’t care what analogy is used about cities, machine or organism. Some flat work well. The reasons aren’t hard to deduce. In 5000-years plus, there are patterns.
You keep your hairshirt.
The problem is in getting around. Safely. With some protection from weather. Ruin the cities and no amount of gold-plating will convert a tremendously expensive tool into a cheap one. It’s past relevance.
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