> If I let someone cross my land and he trips on a tree root and breaks his leg, now I'm possibly facing a lawsuit.
Don't worry, you're impacted by laws anyways. (My fave example is outdoor pools in LA, which by now require a fence. Never mind if there are never any children on the property, there might be at some point)
> Simply crossing the land is one thing
Yup. And it isn't just homeless encampments (which we could address, if we wanted to ever provide housing), it's also that a good chunk of people are, well, asocial assholes. See e.g. folks defacing public parks, destroying natural monuments for kicks, destroying vegetation to get their insta pic just right, etc.
I don't have a good answer. People should be free to access public lands. There should be more public lands. But the consequences of that right often are destructive, and we don't seem inclined to fix that part.
Don't worry, you're impacted by laws anyways. (My fave example is outdoor pools in LA, which by now require a fence. Never mind if there are never any children on the property, there might be at some point)
> Simply crossing the land is one thing
Yup. And it isn't just homeless encampments (which we could address, if we wanted to ever provide housing), it's also that a good chunk of people are, well, asocial assholes. See e.g. folks defacing public parks, destroying natural monuments for kicks, destroying vegetation to get their insta pic just right, etc.
I don't have a good answer. People should be free to access public lands. There should be more public lands. But the consequences of that right often are destructive, and we don't seem inclined to fix that part.