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AITA for this disagreement with some of my friends/colleagues?

So I(40s F) used to work in local level government. I quit to pursue other career opportunities because of burnout, but they asked me to stay on in an official-unofficial advisory capacity, and I'm still pretty close with the current office holders, particularly the current occupant of my former office (A, 30s X). Their boyfriend (H, 30s M), who also works there, isn't fond of me but more or less tolerates me when they're around, which is okay enough. Both their job and my current one necessitate a lot of travel, so it's not often an issue.

Things run pretty smoothly, overall, and I do think the entire city council has the people's best interests at heart. However, recently a natural disaster devastated our area and caused a lot of disagreement over how best to deal with it, and frankly the proposal that was eventually put forward was an awful one that would return a privileged few (about 25% of the population, after estimating numbers) to a semblance of normalcy while neglecting the other 75%. Neither A nor I are willing to back the group's play on this one, for what I feel are obvious reasons. A has gone completely no contact with all of us and I don't even know where they are right now, which aside from worrying me a lot, also hurt my position in the discussion since I officially hold no office anymore.

So I took pretty decisive action to stop them, and now three of our original council (H, plus other members E and L) are extremely pissed off at me and are trying to rally the rest to oppose me, while making some extremely shortsighted and harmful moves in the process that will hurt a lot of people. They don't seem to care, however. It's like they consider the majority lesser human beings and only care about that privileged 25%. I don't think I did everything right, but I did my best. We have to let go of the past and make the best of what we have now, for everyone's sake. No more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise. Henceforth, he shall walk.

AITA for sundering reality into fourteen reflections to stop my coworkers? Or should they have accepted that their paradise is gone, and ceded the reflections to their new fragmented, imperfect inhabitants?

What are these acronyms?

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HAPPY STARLIGHT

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Running up that hill ff14 gmv by amalzia

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*shows up several days late with Coffee Biscuits*

Kat’s fc did Halloween map runs. Costumes were required.

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I know it’s been a bit since I posted, but Kat has been a little busy lately. Not only is she now a lvl90 Reaper, but she also has the CC mount after slogging through so many matches, and she has her first manderville relic weapons.

Oh and joined a static to prog UCoB. Which is chaos but so much fun.

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Auraugust - Day 23

City

I promise it will just be a quick trip into the city this time. I wont leave you here for too long.

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Auraugust - Day 22

Nature

Take a walk to clear your mind, some time out in nature is good for your health. Nothing bad will happen, right? Right?!?

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#Auraugust - Day 21

Shadowbringers

An unknown world, bathed in light, but something familiar rises in the distance.

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#Auraugust  - Day 20

Picnic

Beachfront property means picnics on the sand. Sometimes it’s nice to just take a day and enjoy the sun

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#Auraugust - Day 19

Light

"Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light." - Madeliene L'Engle

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#Auraugust - Day 18

Stormblood

Lord Hien was correct in choosing a place with a peaceful view (though on closer inspection perhaps not all that peaceful)

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#Auraugust - Day 17

Astral

To the Heavens I send thee, your light to shine brightly among the stars.

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#Auraugust - Day 16

Ice

“Ice contains no future, just the past, sealed away.” -Haruki Murakami

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#Auraugust - Day 15

Magic

"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places." - Roald Dahl

Healer, Astrologian, Redmage. Kat has picked up a little more on magic as she’s explored Eorzea. She’s not always the best with it and is still learning some of the basics, but she’ll get there

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#Auraugust - Day 14

DPS

Kat may have started as a healer, but she’s grown rather fond of causing havoc, especially as Ranged DPS. After Dancer, Bard is the runner up for favorite class.

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And because i needed to do something Fun after doing sad photos. Here’s a bonus photo from Auraugust Day 13 (Heavensward)

Kat needed to go visit her home away from home and stop by the Fortemps Manor to pass along tales of her adventures to Count Edmont. Cue the addition to the family portraits