07-14-2015, 03:58 PM
Newgirl states:
"So I take it you have no roots you value?"
i don't see your reasoning at all by asking this question in response. rather than guess at the logic or intent behind this question, i would ask you to clarify before responding in kind.
"Who's views matter the most? Anyone that has a stake in the outcome, and the priority radiates from there decreasing in importance."
my simple answer to whose views matter most is anyone and everyone who resides on Hawai'i Island and feels concerned. it is not my place nor anyone else's to manufacture and impose a pecking order of importance. everyone has a voice.
"If I was born and raised here, I'd fight to know exactly what effect anything will have on the land first and foremost,..."
personally, i don't put much stock in the "born and raised here" qualifier. in fact, as an accurate indicator of character i find it to be almost completely unreliable, not to mention often steeped in an insular arrogance. if we are to judge, it's only common sense that judging individual character on a case be case basis provides better results than broad stereotyping.
if someone calls the Big Island the home that they dearly love, without some pretty clear and convincing evidence to the contrary to go on, who am i to start ranking their degree of belonging?
"So I take it you have no roots you value?"
i don't see your reasoning at all by asking this question in response. rather than guess at the logic or intent behind this question, i would ask you to clarify before responding in kind.
"Who's views matter the most? Anyone that has a stake in the outcome, and the priority radiates from there decreasing in importance."
my simple answer to whose views matter most is anyone and everyone who resides on Hawai'i Island and feels concerned. it is not my place nor anyone else's to manufacture and impose a pecking order of importance. everyone has a voice.
"If I was born and raised here, I'd fight to know exactly what effect anything will have on the land first and foremost,..."
personally, i don't put much stock in the "born and raised here" qualifier. in fact, as an accurate indicator of character i find it to be almost completely unreliable, not to mention often steeped in an insular arrogance. if we are to judge, it's only common sense that judging individual character on a case be case basis provides better results than broad stereotyping.
if someone calls the Big Island the home that they dearly love, without some pretty clear and convincing evidence to the contrary to go on, who am i to start ranking their degree of belonging?