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Originally posted by Spanky
You could have one insane person that could screw the entire community.
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This goes way beyond legal argument into the realm of personal philosophy. For instance, were I not willing to sell my family home in order that the rest of the group of people who have decided to live near me can have a chemical plant, I could never conceive of saying that I was "screwing the community." Maybe I was being unwilling to give up my property in a way that would benefit them, but, they have no vested right to my property. To "screw" someone implies, to me, that I am depriving them of that which is theirs. There's only one screwee in your hypo.
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