In reply to stephen.

There once was a village next to a huge damn that had been built 50 years before. The mountainous area behind the damn filled up with water but was not really the reason for the damn. The reason for the damn was to allow for controlled release of water over time.

However, the village started having economic problems and some residents of the area came up with the idea that if they got rid of the damn it would result in killer rapids in the area and downstream, and they believed it would create an economic development boom.

But many of the other residents of the area really wanted the damn to stay as is. They didn't think that rapids would provide the economic development value that the others believed it would, and thus did not want to potentially allow for flooding during parts of the year in hopes for some elusive economic development ideals.

The debate got so heated that they had several town hall meetings about it, and the most respected local townspeople all got up and argued passionately for their preferred outcome to win the day. But even though these debates were vigorous the leaders of the debate knew and respected each other, and never stooped to personal attacks. They each just believed strongly in their preferred approach.

Then at the last town hall, one guy showed up who appeared
to come out of nowhere; none of the townspeople knew him. And he proceeded to tell the people who wanted to keep the damn that they needed to put their big boy pants on and get serious because they would see an economic boom if they got rapids. And he said that anyone who felt otherwise were just whiners.

Then he made a startlingly proposal, and that is they should just blow up the damn that weekend so the village would not have to wait any longer for its economic windfall.

At which point others who wanted the damn gone started to ask him it he understood what blowing up the damn would mean. And he said "Of course I so, some people just did not like change." At which point many people started
to point out to Mr. Blow-Up-The-Damn that his idea completely ignored all the people who lived in villages downstream and that blowing up the damn would pretty much wipe them all out with wall of water, all the way to the ocean. They did their best to explain that in a community decisions are often much more complex then they first appear.

But Mr. Blow-Up-The-Damn was not to be deterred. To him
it was simple, and that anyone who didn't see it his way was obviously either flawed or just mentally lazy. At which point everyone else in the town hall realized that his tirades added no value to the debate and so they all just ignored him and, working together, finally came up with a viable plan.

#FWIW