A Sickening Example of Eminent Domain

[Professor]

[exploited]

They reached agreements because they had to, not because they wanted to. It's like arguing that a person signed a contract of their own free will with a gun to their head. They were also dissuaded because of the legal costs of appealing the expropriation decision.

That employees of the contractors are happy is totally and utterly irrelevant. It's like saying Exxon-Mobil employees are happy to see environmental regulations weakened because it means more jobs. Who gives a shit? Anybody who doesn't directly benefit - that being just about everyone in Canada - finds this decision to be callous, ignorant and unnecessary.

Every instance of media coverage about the decision is negative, and I've yet to meet anyone but yourself who finds this a good decision.

This is a farm that has been in the man's family for two centuries. Longer than Canada has even been a nation. It is ripe with history, and an important part of our national heritage. It deserves to be protected.

[exploited]

I might also add that it is Class 1 agricultural land, that it was gifted to the Meyer family "in perpetuity" by King George III and that the man it was gifted to was a war hero responsible for developing much of the surrounding community.

[Medius]

[Spider]

I can't see how government working in such a way as to allow for the happiness of the people is such a bad thing. Truly I can't. Happiness is pretty much the whole point of life.

Life isn't just doing whatever produces the most of whatever in the least amount of time and then going to bed. The terminal point of everything is enjoyment. Fun. Happiness.

And if there is one place the government should never dare to tread, its telling us what is fun. We tell it what is fun.

It most certainly is not "retarded".

[Medius]

[The Comrade]

government dictated by the greatest pleasure principle of hedonistic utilitarianism.

what could possibly go wrong with such a short-sighted and shallow MO?

[Professor]

[Professor]

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