newguy40 = “I think constitutional principles should be scrapped whenever it seems necessary to me.”
Red Pill = “Mark’s a crybaby for claiming stealing private property is wrong. Oh and (whispers) … he loves sheap laber and hires illegals, why else would he be oppose a fence? I mean, everyone knows principles are overrated.”
Why do you think the Supreme Court’s stance on imminent domain caused such an uproar a few years ago and spawned many states to form legislation to counteract it? I’ll tell you why, though it is embarrassingly obvious. Because if the government takes land, it will take more land and no one’s land is safe. Wow, what a concept!
If people thought like y’all did they’d say “Well governments sometimes need to take private property to accomplish goals I agree with, but I’m sure they wouldn’t claim private property when I don’t agree with the goal, and they certainly would never take mine.”
Is that a reasonable way to think? Nope.
