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It’s literally the title.

I can’t even understand down voting this, unless you’re delusional.

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Oh, you’re basing your opinions on fact-twisting headlines of right-wing “newspapers”, instead of, you know, reading the actual article where even they have to paint the picture just a liiittle bit differently.

You do understand the difference between “removing roads completely” and “removing all roads”, right?

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You do understand the difference between “removing roads completely” and “removing all roads”, right?

What do you think the distinction is, in this context?

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Yeah, I can help you with that: “removing roads completely” does not specify how many roads are to be removed, only that the ones being removed are removed completely, as opposed to partially.

“Removing all roads” on the other hand means removing all roads, as opposed to, e.g., some, or many.

There, that was easy, wasn’t it?

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One of the roads near my house was removed completely.

All roads near my house were removed completely.

Two different implications, no?

Yes, the title implies something more extreme than is actually proposed, but that’s why I read articles (usually) before commenting.

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There is a difference between roads and streets.

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And which one is it that you think is being proposed to be “ripped out completely” in this article?

Based on your link, I believe in this context it is ‘streets’.

Well, just go back and read my arguments, and then recognize that all of them apply to ‘streets’, and that making the distinction between ‘streets’ and ‘roads’ does not weaken my arguments in any way.

Try a different approach, something besides pedantry.

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Well, the expert is proposing to rip out roads - so my first guess would be they mean roads, not streets.

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