I think it would be even more so the case if it were a debate about how to organize the city, or maybe about municipal laws, or whatever. But this is an issue that goes as far as the Constitution. That's why I see it differently.
The overall effect of this extends beyond local politics.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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