A Poll About Air Traffic

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

I know matters are not this simple. Clearly it's not simply a question of either/or... but, as a sort of thought experiment, I'm curious how people here would feel about the following:

A few years ago Handscom Airforce Base in Concord started opening up to commercial traffic. There was a huge push-back, both from the residents of Concord, but also from those whose interest was in the Walden Pond State Reservation, and the Minuteman National Historical Park and Wildlife Refuge. But there are commercial flights out of there now, with increased road traffic to and from the airport, etc. Periodically their license to run commercial flights, and how many, will come up for review.

*If* it was a simple matter of this or that, which would you prefer?
(Radio Buttons, because, while yes, "it depends" and "neither" (or "both") are all valid points, for the purposes of a straight opinion poll, we'll push it to an either/or anyway.)

[Poll #1499801]

Comments

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

I don't think that's fair. This isn't "yet another post about plane noise" in the way that "ZOMGAIRPLANES!!" (http://community.livejournal.com/davis_square/2038895.html) is. This is an invitation to a useful thought experiment about the consequences of complaining about airplane noise.

Even if it is already on the flowchart. (http://community.livejournal.com/davis_snark/49178.html)

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Yep, it almost snarks itself.

Seriously, how is it useful? There is no data here, no real information, it is admittedly not a real reflection of anything whatsoever. Let's post another thought experiment: Would you rather yell at a baby or kick a kitten?

The other post wasn't useful, either, and I said so there as well, but at least it was only the first one of the day.

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

Kick a kitten.

[hahathor.livejournal.com]

Yell at a baby.

How is this even debatable?

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Can we make that one a choice between which we'd eat?

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Best of both worlds: kick a baby. Out of an airplane. Over Somerville.

[tamalinn.livejournal.com]

this.

[ifotismeni]

yell at a baby

[infinitemorning.livejournal.com]

Yell at a baby, but give the kitten a firm push off the table so it won't forget who's boss. It'll be fine, it's not that far a drop, and if cats don't learn that early, pretty soon they're pooping all over the place and laughing at you behind your back.

They think I can't hear them laughing, but I can.