Shun the non-believer

You will always find opposition anytime you push an agenda through. Even building a park has its critics. How much will it cost? Who is paying for this? Where? Will this attract vagrants? Will someone get hurt? And on and on.

And we spend a lot of time trying to make the citizens happy when they never will. It doesn’t mean we don’t consider the critic’s perspective. But we don’t need to cater to someone who refuses to be happy, either.

Building something always has a cost. And rarely do we consider the emotional toll.