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You gave a nice view from your house. I own the land next to your house and tell you I will build a new house blocking your view unless you pay me not to do tha
by OscarCunningham 3y ago
You gave a nice view from your house. I own the land next to your house and tell you I will build a new house blocking your view unless you pay me not to do that.
- Closi 3y agoThis scenario should probably be legal - the stakes aren’t there for me to consider it similar to blackmail. It depends a bit on intent though - if the purpose of building the house is just to extort the other landowner of money, and it would make a meaningful difference to their house value, it starts to get a lot more grey to me. There are a whole string of scenarios between “not blackmail”, to “probably not blackmail” to “definitely blackmail” depending on the scenario. A bit like how with assault if you poked someone that is probably fine, but that doesn’t make punching someone in the face ok (but what is a punch if not a bigger poke?).