Eminent domain can be very unfair to individuals.

This is because they take away the

private property of someone without, many of the times, their willing consent. While “private
property shall not be taken for public use, without just compensation,” as said according to the
Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution, the value of land cannot be based only off of its
physical attributes. Often, a family’s land is of great sentimental value to them, and they worked
very long and hard to obtain it. (Source B) Losing one’s home will also make the individual have
to move, which will most likely entail him/her to find another reasonable place to live, get a new
job, and make new friends. It is really easy to be an outsider and say that eminent domain is
more “fair” because “why should one person be better off while other’s aren’t as happy?”, but
that is a very utilitarianist and communistic way to govern a society. Like with many things in
life, people are all for certain punishments until they themselves are affected by them. Nobody
wants to have their whole lives thrown into tandem and start all over just so a government can
build a new Condo where they used to live.