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Comment by lokar

19 hours ago

People were (and mostly still are) very opposed to Airbnb rentals in their neighborhood.

... but the customers of these Airbnb rentals are not. :-)

  • People whose houses are robbed are against robbery, people who rob houses are very much for it.

    • That’s a false analogy.

      You have two parties who want to enter into a contract and a third party unrelated to the contract that doesn’t for whatever reason. Just based on contract law and common sense the unrelated party shouldn’t have standing. Now if there’s externalities to the contract that impact that unrelated party sure, but only insofar as to get those externalities addressed.

      This is not the same as a robbery which involves no contract or a willing counterparty to the robbery.

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  • People support anti-pollution measures yet corporations still choose to pollute. Curious.

That's none of their business.

There are already laws in place against the kinds of behavior that neighbors are afraid will happen.

  • Noise, litter, etc, "nuisance" laws are on the books, but mostly depend on people following them voluntarily. The local authorities don't have the time/staff to investigate and resolve them all the time.