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Hawaii man's home fell into the ocean. Now, he's being sued
- immibis 2y agoMisaligned expectations strike again. The man had a totally reasonable expectation that the state would protect his land with erosion control measures, but failing that, he did it himself and then got in trouble for doing so. Meanwhile the state thought he knew about this when he bought the property and knew he'd have to simply demolish the structure that was getting eroded. The less stringent the rules are, the more flexibility there is to bend the two sides to meet in the middle, but capitalist property ownership has become so central to people's lives that it's become so mired down in regulations that they can't meet and nobody wins here.
- Someone 2y ago> The man had a totally reasonable expectation that the state would protect his land with erosion control measures Is that a reasonable expectation there? Many islands “migrate” by eroding on the side with more wind/currents and accumulating new land on the other side (http://www.sepmstrata.org/page.aspx?pageid=301 http://www.sepmstrata.org/page.aspx?pageid=301). Long-term protection against that may be almost impossible. If so, governments can tell the population that their land will eventually disappear. I do not rule out this were the case here, too.