Curious as to what other laws you affirm on other people's private property - that being the landlord in this case.
My wife and I lived three months in an apartment over a smoking woman.
was she on fire ;)
It was terrible, and contributed to my wife’s pregnancy nausia.
What other things contributed to her nausea? List them, we'll see if we can get them banned too.
We moved because it was intolerable, even though we had several air filters and spread baking soda everywhere.
Isn't it a great country still? You can move at will - Heck, you can even buy your own house.
When you live in a communal situation, you need to be considerate of your community.
What type of people will you not allow in your community. Never mind, shouldn't have asked that, you were renting, it's not your house and you were just visiting that community.
Of course people have a right to their private property.
But when people make other people’s private property unlivable because they blow their smoke into that property, their rights end.
Yes, we moved. We didn’t bring a lawsuit. We hated the smoke, and moved.
What “type of people” will we not allow in my community? Those people who ruin my home by their smoke. They ruin *my* home by *their* smoke.
I used to be pretty fine with people killing themselves by smoking. I still am, until it ruins my standard of living. They have no right to ruin my home. No right to ruin my home and hurt my wife.
Libertarian27,
I think your libertarian analysis is way off.
In this case, the individual below Theo’s apartment engaged in behavior that caused harm to Theo’s wife. It wasn’t theoretical harm.
What if the neighbor had sprayed his grass with weed killer that drifted over and killed Theo’s flowers? Are you saying that the neighbor was exercising his property rights?
The neighbor’s property rights end at the edge of his apartment. Period.