alt Hacker News> large forest near your local community.
Who owns the forest and why do you think you get to say if people build on it or not?
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mothballed • yesterday at 4:27 PM
It's a pretty core element of democracy, that if the majority says they get to do a violence against you for a certain behavior, then they get to do that. It might be immoral but it's the current religion of this area of the world *.
* But muh republic -- spare me, the zoning fiasco shows the current constitutional limits on democracy doesn't stop it.
The town, a democratic institution for which you are a tax paying constituent, owns the forest.