I once got her into a discussion about what it was she did, wielding the twin swords of eminent domain and zoning laws to enforce her opinion of right upon other people.

One of her most telling comments, when I was pressing her on taking property for private use, was that “They change their minds when they see the money.”

So I asked as explicitly as I could, “Then why don’t you use the money first, and then not have to use eminent domain and zoning laws at all?”

I received no answer. I had apparently challenged her reason for existing at all a little too well.

She recently overheard me state that “I vote in self defense. I vote no to everything. At every opportunity, I vote against the taking of yet more of my money against my will.” Her comment was, “I hate your kind of people.”

Strangely, she’s not stupid, or openly evil. She simply believes in all her christian charity, that it’s ok to initiate force against people if it’s “for their own good.”

If it will always be that compensation is inadequate. And it will be, otherwise there would be no point in taking, then the expropriation will always be the problem as just compensation is unrealistic, arguably impossible.