Comment by FeepingCreature

I agree that what I said was literally false. I think the comparison to the Dutch still bolsters my view with the added context.

When you understand tides and local ecosystems and have flood level forecasting, you can choose to operate dikes in a way that allows tidal flow while blunting floods. However, we're currently in a position where in the analogy, we have no dike and people are arguing that dikes are impossible and anyway who's to say that the incoming flood won't be good for houses? In that situation, the first thing you need to do is get the incoming masses of water under control, and that's a thing that humans can do and it's the thing you did. (Unless I'm wrong?)

edit: Hang on, isn't Amsterdam below zero? How is that not blocking tidal flow effectively completely?

My point is just that tides are in the feasible range of human engineering, whether that's a good idea or not. Pragmatic management is not the same thing as unconditional surrender, which the other comment was advocating on basis of infeasibility, which is doubly wrong.