The problem that these people have is not really with airplanes. They just 
don't like other people. They don't like the evidence of other people. They 
don't like the effects that the existence of other people have on their 
lives. 
 
We could return to an existence where airplanes, motorcycles, leaf blowers, 
boom boxes, jet skis and all other noisy artifacts of civilization were 
banned, but that would be tantamount to a ban on civilization itself. The 
world in those times was very inefficient. A return to the food production 
and manufacturing processes of those days would flood the earth with 
pollution and produce only a tiny fraction of vital goods and services. 
Billions would die. 
 
There may have been a time when anti-social types could live as hermits in 
remote mountain areas and never have to come into contact with another human 
for the rest of their lives. That time is over. 
 
You can regulate it all you want, but the anti-noise crowd will never find 
the silence it craves. 
 
They assume that flying aerobatics is needless recreation -- as if 
recreation is somehow something that we can live without. That assumption is 
entirely unfounded. They have built their argument on a rotten foundation. 
You simply cannot ask everyone who bothers you to stop bothering you or 
leave the planet. 
 
People need to learn to be more tolerant of being constantly touched by 
others, hearing their noise, putting up with their smell, and seeing them 
everywhere. Those who cannot be tolerant will suffer endlessly, no matter 
how many lawsuits they file. 
 
 
 
		
	
		
		
		
		
		
	
		 
			
 
			
			
			
				 
            
			
			
            
            
                
			
			
		 
		
	
	
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