what if the world police (aka the UN) took a useless corner of your backyard and gave it to a homeless guy?

Question

the guy shows up, poor, ravaged, still scared by the Holocaust, no place else to go. he pitches himself a little tent in the corner and doesn't bother anyone.
but instead of taking it up with the police, you take a baseball bat to the homeless man. now he's mad at you, because he was told he could stay there. whose fault is it when he breaks your bat?

Answer 1

The problem is that little corner was being used by somebody already living there.

Answer 2

There was no need for a bat to be used anyways . That alone will get you in jail and he'll get to still remain on your property unless you file trespassing which will be a little hard considering your in jail. The homeless man could be sent to a shelter. The UN would have to had definately consulted with the owner of the home in advance and offered to purchase the portion of the land, offer some credit, a proportionment, anything of value to offset the fact you are losing value or usage to that portion of the land while the homeless man is allowed there. There must be a decree on a federal and state level (considering your a US native) and the UN would definately have compensate as mentioned before in order to allow 'just' and "favorable" allotment of land. The homeless man in my opinion would be better of in some facility (including asylum) which extends counseling to international war veterans, refugees, and war criminals as well.
Death would be a great alternative but in a moral and ethical society I couldn't sleep at night knowing I caused more harm to someone who has already endured enough for many lifetimes.

Answer 3

DakkonA is right. What do you do when the homeless guy starts to take more of your land, oppressing your family and friends. Then he starts going into your neighbors' yards. One of them kicks his a** out, but only after a bloody fight. The other neighbor puts up with his crap for years. During that time the homeless guy's actions cause some of the more violent children in the neighborhood to organize against him. The rich neighbors give these children money and "slingshots" in order to "terrorize" the homeless guy. Eventually the homeless guy realizes that he should give back some of the extra space he had taken, and completely leaves the neighbor's yard. The thing is, the violent children still are upset that their parents' and grandparents' land was taken in the first place by the homeless guy. Not to mention that the homeless guy had put several of the violent children in a "time out." The homeless guy starts to throw "rocks" at your house. So, the violent children throw "rocks" back. By this time the homeless guy has had children of his own. He has trained each of these children to hate your house, your land, and also to fight against the violent children in your family. Some of the violent children of your family kidnap the homeless guy's children. That causes the homeless guy to go nuts. He sabotages your power supply and starts to throw many "rocks" at your house. To make matters worse for the homeless guy, your neighbor's kids, whose land had be taken as well by the homeless guy, starts to throw "rock" at him as well. They also kidnap two of the homeless guy's children. Now the homeless guy is really pissed. He starts to throw "rocks" at your neighbor's house too, but the thing is, your neighbor has disowned those kids. They now get their money from the same rich neighbors that you do. Everything is crazy, the homeless guy keeps throwing "rocks" at you and your neighbor, and the people who gave the homeless guy your land say it is your fault. The question now is whether or not you and your neighbor punish the violent children and demand they give back the homeless guy's kids.

Answer 4

First off...
the U.N. has no governing authority over the U.S.
It has NO power to reassign the use of property.
If this were possible, then the concept of private property rights would have no value.
The idea of owning property is as basic as breathing in the U.S.
Compassion for the pitiful is admirable, but should not be forced upon anyone.

To pose this question is bordering on socialism.
Take from those that have...and give to those that have not.

Answer 5

Ugh. Where did you come up with that? I could just see that too.....the World Police confiscating a corner of my backyard while there's somebody down the street with a backyard twice as big and they don't take any of theirs.

I wouldn't mind it that much if he truly didn't bother anyone. I would just loathe the principle of having my land forcibly taken by the government.

Answer 6

Well that's one thing, but when that homeless man begins annexing other parts of your property and spreads out into it while making you and your family subservient to him in those parts and then not even giving you the rights you were allowing him? And when the same UN that gave you that land says "No, you can't do that" and he ignored them?

Answer 7

Not sure what you analogy is. There is no corner of MY backyard that is useless. Besides, I wouldn't have to take a baseball bat to him, my dog would have eaten him long before I got to him.

Answer 8

I'd start shooting the first second I saw any blue helmets in my yard. I wouldn't care what they were doing there. And the little S O B in the tent, better hope that the tent is not blue.

Answer 9

why is he mad?....its not like he's homeless anymore....dont we all take a beating when we pay the mortgage on the home in frontn of the backyard?......we all have a price to pay!

Answer 10

youd have a homless guy living in that part of your backyard that you probably wouldnt own anymore...