Actually you are mistaken.
Property is certainly worth what the market will pay for it. (this is what the property resale value is)
By putting a giant ad in the middle of someone else's property, you drive down what the market will pay for it.
What the billboard owner is doing is essentially extortion, forcing you to buy the land that he has for an exorbidant price and threatening you with an enormous ad which will drive down your property values (destroying what you have created).
It is not wrong for you to get together with 51% or 99% of your neighbors and hire someone to point a gun in their face and make them move it. These are called community standards.
At this point in your arguement you slide off into the bizzare and paranoid. Laws are enforced by threat of death or injury (when you are arrested, for example), they are not based on these threats. In RL, laws are based on fines and penalties. In SL, the equivalent would be banning or a stiff monetary fine.
I hope you were being sarcastic but I fear that you were not.
An adequate solution to this problem would be a system of community councils and land zoning. Commerical and Residential respectively.
The other option would be to buy from a reputable island which already has these types of standards enforced.
Property is certainly worth what the market will pay for it. (this is what the property resale value is)
By putting a giant ad in the middle of someone else's property, you drive down what the market will pay for it.
What the billboard owner is doing is essentially extortion, forcing you to buy the land that he has for an exorbidant price and threatening you with an enormous ad which will drive down your property values (destroying what you have created).
It is not wrong for you to get together with 51% or 99% of your neighbors and hire someone to point a gun in their face and make them move it. These are called community standards.
At this point in your arguement you slide off into the bizzare and paranoid. Laws are enforced by threat of death or injury (when you are arrested, for example), they are not based on these threats. In RL, laws are based on fines and penalties. In SL, the equivalent would be banning or a stiff monetary fine.
I hope you were being sarcastic but I fear that you were not.
An adequate solution to this problem would be a system of community councils and land zoning. Commerical and Residential respectively.
The other option would be to buy from a reputable island which already has these types of standards enforced.
We will have to agree to disagree. You support the use of force against those who have not used it against you or another, I do not.
