Let’s go back to the old ways, get rid of street lighting but make it illegal to be outside after dark without a torch.
So they don’t use candles indoors after dark?
Shhhh… don’t question the holy thoughts.
“Innermeerkat, this is God speaking. I want you to bake me cupcakes. The good kind. You know the ones.”
Don’t question the holy thoughts… cupcakes are delicious. ;)
I dunno, snopes seems to think that in context this is an exaggeration, but I’m less reliant on them alone these days. The wiki page on Greg does affirm that it seems to have happened, and pegs the source on this as McBrien, Richard (2000), Lives of the Popes.
So there may or may not be mitigating context here, but from what I’m reading the man was such a grundle that we owe him nothing. Amusingly, it seems he was quite intensely conservative, even as far as having opposed rail, calling them “roads to hell”.
According to Thoughty, the pope may have had a point, but for the wrong reasons. There used to be more polyphasic sleepers in the world before we had lights at night.
I would actually prefer this. There are studies that claim that crime and suicide rates go down when cities turn off the lights at night.
Anyway, I’m not a big fan of many atheism posts here, the Catholic church had good sides, too. But black and white thinking it is, apparently.
this is actually part of my job, crime, and using enviromental context to reduce it. (as private security,)
If anyone gives you a blanket altruism about xyz reduces your risks of being broken into or reduces hoodlumism or something, it’s usually safe to ignore them.
The only exception to that is deadbolts on residential doors. (and read that as “reduces”… if you’re an idiot who parks a $500,000 cybertruck in the open and leaves your front door unlocked, you’re a moron whose going to donate a cybertruck to the ‘I need some joy’ ridership fund.)
In any case lighting is very contextual. It’s different for parks, different for streetways, and different for residential houses. even different neighborhoods. or between different sorts of apartment buildings.
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