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Originally Posted by richlevy
Define safe.
If you decide to open a sewage treatment plant or nuclear waste reprocessing facility on you land, will you post a bond against possible damage to my land, or the air and water I breathe?
If not, is it fair for the community to shoulder the burden of cleanup when there is an incident?
I find it ironic that conservatives are so in favor of tort reform, when civil action is the only way to enforce the libertarian notion that people and businesses should be held responsible for their actions.
Setting a half million dollar cap on a 5 million dollar cleanup is essentially corporate welfare in that everyone else is assuming the burden of the actions of an individual or business.
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It doesn't matter if I want to open a porno theater across from an elementary school, a sewage treatment plant, a nuclear material's processing plant, a coal mine, or a garbage dump. I'm responsible for any damages I cause. I don't have to pay for damages I haven't caused so a bond is out of the question. Why should I have my money tied up in bonds when I can have it earning serious money for me? Unless you can prove that I've caused damage
(which I wouldn't because I'm a libertarian), you have no rights when it comes to what I do with my own land regardless of the proximity of your land. Neither does any government at any level. Any laws they make to the contrary are illigitimate.
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
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Originally Posted by Radar
This is because you can keep only what you, or your agent (for instance security guards or even a government) can defend for you.
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Luckily our government was originally built with the protection of private property in mind. A nation is only as free as it recognizes the sanctity of private ownership to be. The government's job here is to defend the private property of the weak so they can keep it even if they are unable to defend it on their own. I certainly don't agree with the strong victimizing the weak. It's just the way things have been during all of recorded humanity.
Sadly, our government is moving away from defending private property and is now helping private businesses to steal it from citizens.