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What about the right to build a house on land you own? As long as its not hurting anyone and is safe, why should my neighbors be able to tell me what I can't do
by Houshalter 10y ago
What about the right to build a house on land you own? As long as its not hurting anyone and is safe, why should my neighbors be able to tell me what I can't do with my own property?
- criddell 10y agoProbably because they are afraid your building will make theirs less valuable and so you would be, in effect, hurting them.
- eli_gottlieb 10y agoWell then, we'd better walk into every major stock exchange and explain that we're holding the guns to their heads because they're not trading everything at the highest price humanly possible, draining the rest of the economy in the process, and that therefore, as stockholders, we are being hurt and have the right to hold them at gunpoint for higher asset prices.
- et2o 10y agoThey are trading at the highest price possible when they are selling
- eli_gottlieb 10y agoNah, they can go higher if we hold guns to their heads. Surely. Personally, I'm being harmed by not sticking them up /s.
- Houshalter 10y agoYou don't have a right to "value". The exact same argument works against you. Preventing me from building housing hurts the poor! It makes their cost of living increase. And surely they suffer far more than rich property owners. All economic transactions hurt someone's value, but they create more value than they destroy. It's a net good.
- criddell 10y agoI don't disagree with you. I was just trying to explain why property owners often want some restrictions on what their neighbors can do.