Are you sure you don't want to speak to the fire-starters?
When I approached people after the fire and asked if they wanted to say anything to those who started it, most were camera shy. Not surprising really, as we live in a society that isn't used to communicating with the strangers who have impacted on our quality of life.
Once you consider the greater safety for our community that can be gained by having the difficult conversations with strangers, it makes sense, and then the question is how to have the communication.
There are at least three community views about the pier that could be put to those who burned the pier down:
1) the negative impact of the fire on many people...
2) the positive impact of the fire for some....
3) the suspicious
If you hold a different view from some combination of these three, please comment below. And if you hold any of the above views, please contact me so that your view can be included in the dialogue.
Without all views being included in the dialogue, the Hastings community will carry on divided, with little healing of the underlying issues. A community that doesn't work with difference doesn't work.
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