>That’s different from imposing a punishment on someone because of someone else’s bad act.

I shell out thousands for engineered plans for a petty AF retaining wall because the boomers and their parents were cheap fucks and kept building shit that mushed over too fast (all retaining walls fall over, it's just a question of time).

Damn near every area of society has tons of stuff like this.

It's just blood guilt/debt with extra steps IMO.