[tylerdurden]

Now that this thread has be resurrected, I noticed this:

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If a third party, the government, steps in and uses eminient domain to enforce its percieved value then this is an excercise in arroagance that hurts the society.

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The fact that eminent domain assigns a (arbitrary) value to property is not the most damaging aspect of it (tax assessment does effectively the same thing); the fact that it forces an unwilling party to *act* and transfer the property is the really bad part.