No Silver Bullet Solutions to the Werewolf Crisis
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No Silver Bullet Solutions to the Werewolf Crisis
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#2I’m not sure what I just read, but it was awesome.
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#3The primary root cause of homelessness is a lack of affordable housing.
Meanwhile, everyone argues over what a complex and nuanced problem it is. Or just says that homeless people are a bunch of junkies and crazies who simply cannot be helped.
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#4I’m not sure what I just read, but it was awesome.
My guess is, an allegory about how the USA could conceivably (but most likely won't) address its problem with mass shootings.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
My guess is, an allegory about how the USA could conceivably (but most likely won't) address its problem with mass shootings.
By using bows!
A bow and silver-tipped arrow is a less-effective silver bullet. but is a) better than nothing, so is useful a a defence against werewolves, and b) also useful as proof of concept that demonstrates that silver bullets would be even better.
If there is an analogy, it would be, as in the last para of the article: "(some gun control) is probably not as powerful as a real (effective gun control, like nearly every other developed country has) would be, but it's way easier to make on short notice, or by a single person (US state). Sometimes you need to stop overthinking everything and just try an idea and see if it works."
This all supposes that people would see that the idea works, understand something that they did not before, and change their minds; which I find overly charitable as applied to real-world problems. Dogma, propaganda and wilful blindness to facts known already plays a huge role.
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#8This feels like an XKCD comic - Sarah Fletcher could easily be played by the Megan character.
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#9I’m not sure what I just read, but it was awesome.
My guess is, an allegory about how the USA could conceivably (but most likely won't) address its problem with mass shootings.
No. It's an allegory about housing costs and Georgism. The author has been advocating for Georgism for a while. (You might understandably not know that or the background, but also note the 'smart mixed use' shot, which would make no sense in a gun-control allegory, or describing advocates for land-value tax as a 'few cranks' - clearly not true of gun control advocacy, where that's practically the majority position - the shots at environmental review, willful denial of supply-and-demand, blaming it on people 'moving in', etc.)
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#10The primary root cause of homelessness is a lack of affordable housing. Meanwhile, everyone argues over what a complex and nuanced problem it is. Or just says that homeless people are a bunch of junkies and crazies who simply cannot be helped.
Unfortunately it is genuinely a complex problem. It is true that in general adding more housing lowers prices, but in detail the exact opposite is often true. For one, adding housing can lead to more demand for services (eg schools) which in turn makes a location more desirable which makes more people come which makes housing prices go up. The densest cities in the USA are also some of the most expensive for housing.
On the other hand, decreasing demand (eg people leaving) doesn't always fix socioeconomic problems either - sometimes, once people start leaving, more people leave until you end up with an empty husk of a city eg Detroit at one point.
People need services and people also want to be around other people like them. This causes feedback loops, making the nexus of problems related to housing truly and inescapably complex.