The one thing I agree with traffic troons is that zoning is pretty gay, it's your property one ought to be free to dispose of it how they please, now that they've in all likelihood abandoned that, it seems they've devolved into 100% unserious ass clowns.
Zoning has its benefits and its drawbacks, and can be implemented badly in any case. The takeaway here is that it's not some universally negative thing that they make it out to be, and that there are some very real concerns that led to be implemented in the first place.
I believe Jason once said something like "American cities are designed wrong, there's no debate", but clearly there
is a debate and that zoning isn't inherently a bad thing...but again, they won't admit that perhaps they are the ones who are wrong.
Are you British by any chance?
I caught this post before you added the second part, I negrated it and was going to write a long screed implying that you were one of the "free speech must include child porn or you're a traitorous cuck" type person but was just about to go to bed and never got around to it. Now that you've actually elaborated, I'm not saying that Marohn needs to go to jail for daring to speak on a subject he has no formal experience (and if that's what you got from me I have no idea what to tell you), it's that he's used that to further his career. For another example, the
Stolen Valor Act of 2005 was struck down by the courts completely because it contained no provision of severability. The
Stolen Valor Act of 2013 built to replace it was that fraudulent claims of military service "with intent to obtain money, property, or other tangible benefit", and that's where the case of Marohn gets sticky. While he's not violating the SVA, you could make the argument that he's falsely represents/representing someone he wasn't, and used that to further his career, on the other hand he WAS a former licensed engineer and didn't explicitly claim to be a civil engineer. I guess my answer would be that he's technically within his 1A rights but he's also a deceptive scumbag and I would personally never go to bat for him.
Either way, as it stands, no one is threatening Marohn with jail time and multi-million dollar lawsuits, he just has to pay a small fine ($1,500 is small peanuts for him, I'd imagine) and edit a few things on his webpage.
I never understood why urbanists pushed this "gym of life" concept. Fitness and exercise are already plagued by "bro science" and retarded just-so One Weird Trick theories like diet fads, and now you're going to barge in and say "ackshually, all you need to do is sell your car to get fit" and see nothing wrong with that?
It comes into the question of how easy is to get food. If "carbrains" are so fat and lazy, why would they choose to live so far away from the nearest McDonald's, while the cool and fit "urbanist" could just waddle down to the nearest bodega a block away and fuel up on junk food?