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    8 hours ago

    You can give up all you want.

    The biggest issue with your argumentation is that it takes one extreme (“farmers need to live in rural areas”) and use that as a justification for everyone who is not covered by that rule.

    For example, all of suburbia can go. Close to nobody living there is a farmer and people only live in the suburbs because they can use a car to get to city center quickly.

    But also in more rural areas there are a lot of people who commute to their office job in the next city.

    That is not a totally valid life choice by far. If you want to work in the city, move to the city.






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    20 hours ago

    Yeah, there’s a bit of a conflict here: People want to live in rural areas with large plots of land and nature everywhere but want to have the comforts and amenities of living in a city center.

    Before the car this was a choice that people had to make: move to the city where everything is available or to the countryside where countryside is available and hardly anything else.

    The car allowed to bridge this gap to the detriment of the climate and the sustainability of life on this planet.

    And now we have another conflict: luxurity for people in rural areas vs survival of the human race.