[MD] Capitalism: A Question of Morality

[Case]

[Case]
>I say Live Long and Prosper.

[Dan]
So it's a no-brainer. Spoken like a true capitalist!

[Case]
No need to be insulting. I was responding to the situation you presented. If
there are highways and developments already moving in on the piece of
property you mention all that could happen is he delays the inevitable. It
seems there are other factors at work here that you have not mentioned. If
the tenant farmer is that good of a family friend, it would seem that Roy
would have ample resources to invest in a future farm on more suitable land.
The property you mention that is pristine and a good hunting spot, sounds
like it would make a nice park. Many people in my area love their land as
well. One rancher in my area raised cattle on 5,000 acres of swampland that
serves are part of the watershed for a sizable portion of my state. His
family donated or sold the land to the state as a park to preserve it. 

But that is not the situation you described or as I understood it anyway. If
the personal bonds run that deep I would expect them to run both ways. If
there are other considerations that need to be factored in maybe I just
missed them. But as I said I live in one of the most rapidly growing areas
of the country and there is nothing that can be done to stop it. 

Nothing. 

To the reading list gav submitted I added a few of my own. Carl Hiaasen
writes incredibly funny and insightful novels about the good the bad and
ugly in the state of Florida. I recommend everything he has written but from
a purely environmental stand point, Native Tongue or Tourist Season.