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Solzrules spaketh: {A}My point is, if you decide to live next railroad tracks (you do have a choice in the matter) you should expect to deal with trains at any time. You should also expect the frequency of the trains to fluctuate with the time of day. {B} To move in next to the railroad tracks and then decide you are going to raise hell when the railroad wants to move more trains over them is a great example of a self-centered life. {C} I still think that the Mayo clinic is being unreasonable in this whole affair. For them to state that an increase in train frequency will adversely affect their patients' well-being is a rather incredible statement. {A}. OK, fair enough, but isn't it just as fair for the person deciding to move in to make their decision based upon the observed usage of the line in question? I mean it's one thing if some guy buys a house next to a 4 track segment of the old water level route back in the 1930s What he was buying into was abundently clear. Such is not the case in the scenario at hand, the railroad is seeking to change things, and as an agent of change has to deal with the hurdles set up in front of it. Afterall, using your very logic, is't it just as fair to say "When the railroad decided to pick a rail line through a city to upgrade, they should have fully realized that dealing with the concerns of that city's residents would be an unavoidable part of the bargain"? (the city being there first) {B}Funny thing about that being "everybody's doing it" why be a saint and live in misery? {C} The following is as much to address FM's post as yours, but when in battle, one works with what one has. "health concerns of the suffering" is just the kind of weepy eyed, begging for sympathy tactic that gets people's attention in this "Oprah'ized" PC society of ours. 'the poor poor suffering patients" don't you know? LOL! Zardoz seems to understand the position I'm working from. These days It doesnt really matter how "fair" it is or not. All that matters is who can milk the most sympathy out of those standing witness. The well being of the patients probably just looks like the most promising ammo to use, so that's the way it'sd going. (my gut feeling) Not entirely different from the excuse CSX is trying to use that lead content of the old paint on it's rusting bridges makes the prospect of repainting them an environmental issue. Clearly THAT is not the reason CSX has let it's bridges deteriorate, but it is the excuse they evidently think will gain their position the most sympathy, so guess what? they use it. Same dif with the Mayo.
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