Thread: 4.2 Housing Update

Originally Posted by StouterTaru

Which part makes it not a punishment?

Context. You glossed over that part from your own quote.

"in contexts ranging from child discipline to criminal law"

I'm going to quote myself here to save me the trouble of typing out the same example, again-

Originally Posted by Rymm

It's like owning a home with a big, beautiful front lawn for years. Eventually the traffic in front of your house gets worse and worse and finally the city has to do something to relieve the gridlock. So they decide to add another lane, by widening the street and taking part of your front lawn to do it, maybe even chopping down a tree or two. Does it negatively impact the homeowner? Yes. Is the homeowner being punished? No. But the city needs to infringe on their luxury in order to make the lives of the majority of people better.

Also-

Originally Posted by StouterTaru

response to undesirable behaviour - check

Just curious, does this mean you are conceding that house hoarding is an 'undesirable behavior' by SE? So many people are claiming it is okay because the rules technically allowed it up until now.