as a whole

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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

And that they should have the authority to do these sorts of projects.

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

It's a good source for the others.

However, you can have food industry

That would be an agricultural community

I'm just asking how an issue like that would be solved under such a system.

No, I'm taking about industrialized farming

When money isn't enough.