Because we are not little children trying to score points in elementary school and supposedly have at least some small amount of common sense. Do you need proof that water runs downhill and that by building water retention sites on the side of a hill you increase the likelihood of flooding in neighboring areas, while preventing water from getting to downhill/downstream areas? And does it confuse you as to why cutting almost three hundred old growth trees in City Park will NOT be a boon to City Park or the surrounding neighborhoods? And while it may be a fact that the city "claims" the course will re-open when Park Hill Golf Course closes, a two year construction project can be delayed by dozens of factors, and the predictions made by the same city employees who planned the boondoggle, like when they say it will be finished and how much it will cost, hardly qualify as "facts".