• kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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    17 hours ago

    If it’s on private property who gives a shit

    • Fires don’t respect property lines.

    • Rescue workers still have to deal with the mayhem (and risks you have created) if you do something stupid on your own property.

    If your idiot son wants to build a structurally questionable tree house and the parents don’t do anything about it and he dies that’s on them.

    Some of us have human empathy.

    • MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip
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      17 hours ago

      It’s a shed in the middle of nowhere. What fire code could it possibly be breaking that all the other structures out there aren’t also already breaking? Good lord have you never lived outside of a city?

      It’s a big empty field in the middle of 15 acres of woods. Building a shed next to the garden ain’t gonna hurt anyone any more or less than the house itself or any of the neighbors many sheds and structures built right into the woods on their private property all up and down that road.

      And what does empathy have to do with anything? I’m not going to tell my neighbors what they can and cannot do on their land. If their kid died building a bad tree house that does suck for that kid and the family, but it is not my or your place to tell them what they can and cannot do on their land. Kids die all the time riding dirtbikes and quads on private property. Should we outlaw that too because it might end badly?

      I prefer leaving people alone to do what they want and I want to be left alone to do what I want. I do not understand why yall are so eager to jump to restrictions and happily crawling under a boot.

      • bufalo1973@lemm.ee
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        16 hours ago

        Let’s say that one is in the middle of nowhere. Every other place there is also in the middle of nowhere? If they make an exception with one place the rest of the people will sue for not having the same right. And where does the line get drawn? Because once you start with exceptions the next one will say the line has to move again.