Angry UBC condo owners protest new Hospice

[Regulator75]

I always wondered what that building was, thanks for the info.

[Winsor_Pilates]

Originally Posted by VladtheImpaler

Of course. Presumably the developer knew what this hood was zoned for. I wonder if the off-shore buyers knew? I wonder if the realtors did proper due diligence? Maybe everybody discharged their duty appropriately, and the buyers should have known that a "death factory" could show up in their hood. In that case, caveat emptor.

Even if the developer knows, it's not their responsibility to disclose all surrounding building plans/permit applications/zoning etc.
Buyers need to take responsibility for doing that and/or getting a qualified Realtor to help them.

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates

Even if the developer knows, it's not their responsibility to disclose all surrounding building plans/permit applications/zoning etc.
Buyers need to take responsibility for doing that and/or getting a qualified Realtor to help them.

How about the buyers get a qualified scientist to teach them a few things?

[pylon]

If any one of us moved to China, and protested the lead toy factory, the dog slaughterhouse, the rare and endangered animal penor harvesting plant, or the fake Callow'o'y golf club factory going in next door, they would say exactly what what I am hoping the authorities do in this scenario....too bad.

[4X4]

The house my mom lived in when I grew up was across the street from a raisin farm. I wonder how many dozens of stiffs they harvested from that place? For all I know, someone died across the street from me every night.

Not only have I been steeped in the unlucky fumes of death, but I have a thing for the unluckiest types of vehicles... 4x4s. No wonder I've never been able to score with a (sober) asian chick.

[Jing]

Originally Posted by Handsome B. Wonderful

How about the buyers get a qualified scientist to teach them a few things?

I am just curious, say this situation was replicated except this time religious beliefs are used as an excuse, would that religion receive the same amount of ridicule as it has in this thread? I am not refuting the possibility that these people are using this as an excuse (which is a strong possibility), however it seems like posters find it impossible that anyone could believe so strongly in such superstitions.

[GreenTeaFrapp]

Originally Posted by Handsome B. Wonderful

How about the buyers get a qualified scientist to teach them a few things?

Maybe they can also teach North Americans who design highrises that there's a number between 12 & 14.

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

If someone said that a medical facility designed to give people dignity in death shouldn't get built because of religious reasons, I would tell them to pound sand. There is nothing evil or mysterious about a hospice, they are a necessary part of our health care system.

And it doesn't take much for people on this site to mock religion, so I don't think that would hold much water.

[amorak]

Botb

[corporatejay]

Originally Posted by Jing

I am just curious, say this situation was replicated except this time religious beliefs are used as an excuse, would that religion receive the same amount of ridicule as it has in this thread? I am not refuting the possibility that these people are using this as an excuse (which is a strong possibility), however it seems like posters find it impossible that anyone could believe so strongly in such superstitions.

It would receive more. If you don't think so, you don't frequent CP enough.

[SebC]

Originally Posted by Jing

it seems like posters find it impossible that anyone could believe so strongly in such superstitions.

It's not so much that people can be strongly superstitous, it's that the individuals with such superstitions should not be able to shift the burden of their superstitions onto the rest of society.

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally Posted by Jing

I am just curious, say this situation was replicated except this time religious beliefs are used as an excuse, would that religion receive the same amount of ridicule as it has in this thread?

Yeah, if this was a religious thing (which I kinda think it is anyway) it would definitely get the same amount of ridicule. It would probably be worse.

Originally Posted by Jing

I am not refuting the possibility that these people are using this as an excuse (which is a strong possibility), however it seems like posters find it impossible that anyone could believe so strongly in such superstitions.

I don't find it impossible...

I mean we aren't even talking about NIMBY, because there is no backyard. They aren't saying "we don't want people dying in our backyard", which is in a way understandable, they are saying "the dead people will haunt us after they are gone", which is not understandable.

Okay, okay, people believe in ghosts, but their right to believe in ghosts doesn't extend beyond their own mind, let alone outside the building.

Real live human beings need hospices. Denying real live people a necessary service for something that doesn't exist is what's really unbelievable.