Message from @Summī Imperator, 呪い殿
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Don't reveal your power level Milk.
Democracy in the us allowed the opening of the borders which was then a race to who could get the most voters
That's irrelevant.
our main problem is the supreme court tbh
Sorry, but I couldn't let that stand
and the federal government
as a whole
neither of which has to do with the democratic system
The federal government is reflective of democracy though.
Somehwat
Somewhat
iirc federal gun laws are unconstitutional
yet we have them
You're distracting.
@Summī Imperator, 呪い殿 what I was trying to get at, was that every one of these examples you give of industrial development hurting communities I can almost guarantee it wasn't made at the local level.
From the QotD.
You say these decisions *should* be handled at the local level though.
If we pay attention to historical context of the 1st Amendment you could make an unconvincing argument that any gun law is unconstitutional. But laws restricting certain weapons are in theory not unreasonable.
This has nothing to do with today's QOTD
Yes, Zexy
I would prefer if it was completely left to states
But some effects are unforeseeable, so I was asking what would happen?
If one community made a decision that affected several others?
If they can show that damages have taken place, they can sue them or settle some arrangement where the damages are fixed or paid for.
Who enforces that?
And who decides what a forest is worth?
Either a court or a private arbitrator of some kind
How do you gauge how much damage there is from losing a forest which provides food and resources for several communities?
A single tree can be considered priceless
And money will never bring those resources back
So
How do you mitigate this when money isn't enough?
This is why you could make a settlement where the other community provides the lost food source
So you would have a community starve its people?
What?
An industrial community isn't going to have much food
If that community didn't have enough for both, would you have one go hungry?
An "industrial community" as you are imagining it wouldn't choose to damage it's own food source.
It's not the food source to them