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Old 02-24-2005, 03:51 PM   #3779
Tyrone Slothrop
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Originally posted by bilmore
Because we can only value objectively, whereas people hold their items of value on a subjective basis.
And yet we manage to build airports and schools all the time.

If this is just a squabble about whether, as a practical matter, governments pay people enough as compensation for takings, I'll agree that they probably don't. But that's a question of practice, not principle. Sometimes it costs money to vindicate other rights, too. That's how we all make our living.
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