Instead of breaking the law and crying when they were caught, maybe they could have spent that time and effort informing their fellow citizens and working with them to improve zoning and building laws.
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Instead of breaking the law and crying when they were caught, maybe they could have spent that time and effort informing their fellow citizens and working with them to improve zoning and building laws.
So you agree even when you own your own property. It's not really yours to do with what you wish.
For better or worse, it's really not. What property is depends on what rules the government sets up to protect and/or regulate it, so if the government is reasonably democratic, the nature and scope of those rules is based on what the people want them to be.
Both the fifth and fourteenth Amendments to the US Constitution provide due process protections for "Life, Liberty, and Property" a reading of any number of founding documents (for the United States) shows clearly that the Founders held property rights to be as important as other human rights...and I agree with them whole heartedly