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Apr. 8th, 2008 11:19 pmI'm not sure if I've ever ranted about this here before, but I hate NIMBYism. Hate it, hate it, hate it. Seriously, I consider the behavior it engenders to a be a sign of significant moral failing.
Call me a complete goober if you will, but I do honestly believe that sometimes, someone has to take one for the team, as it were, and I also believe that being on the receiving end of whatever "bad" stuff is going to happen needs to be spread around. No one group, or place, or town should ever have to do all the sucking up so that another group or town doesn't have to do any. I think this is true, even when it might mean that the people benefitting from my taking one for the team are people I don't know. I think it's true if I get no benefit, because I persist in hoping that other people feel the same way; that it is a reciprocal engagement where each person involved recognizes that sometimes, you make sacrifices for the greater good, and sometimes other people do, and it all works out in the end.
Like I said. Goober. Stupid, pollyanna, optimistic goober.
And it makes me really realy furious when I have to deal with people who think that instead, someone ELSE should make all the sacrifices, and their little worlds should never be anything other than perfect, exactly how THEY want it, because they are special (and this part really rankles) and better than me.
With all that said, it warms my heart to see the hospital hill wankers get their asses handed to them on a technicality tonight. Oh yes, yes it does.
Call me a complete goober if you will, but I do honestly believe that sometimes, someone has to take one for the team, as it were, and I also believe that being on the receiving end of whatever "bad" stuff is going to happen needs to be spread around. No one group, or place, or town should ever have to do all the sucking up so that another group or town doesn't have to do any. I think this is true, even when it might mean that the people benefitting from my taking one for the team are people I don't know. I think it's true if I get no benefit, because I persist in hoping that other people feel the same way; that it is a reciprocal engagement where each person involved recognizes that sometimes, you make sacrifices for the greater good, and sometimes other people do, and it all works out in the end.
Like I said. Goober. Stupid, pollyanna, optimistic goober.
And it makes me really realy furious when I have to deal with people who think that instead, someone ELSE should make all the sacrifices, and their little worlds should never be anything other than perfect, exactly how THEY want it, because they are special (and this part really rankles) and better than me.
With all that said, it warms my heart to see the hospital hill wankers get their asses handed to them on a technicality tonight. Oh yes, yes it does.
