Well said!

There is taking action and there is taking action. By using the state, even for noble ends, we end up corrupted the state.

What is someone saying when they try to use eminent domain? For starters, they are saying that the eminent domain is a legitimate use of state power. An anarchist must disagree with this, as I believe, must any minarchist Libertarian.

Secondly, they fill out a bunch of forms. This says that to take a legitimate action (they implicitly agreed that eminent domain is legitimate), one must ask permission of the state. Is this a message that we want associated with Libertarians?

Third, they wait for the town council to vote on the request. This says that they agree with the state deciding if a legitimate action is permitted or not.

I'm sure others can expand on this.

The point being that once we have granted the above, we have also granted the legitimacy of the state saying that you can't smoke marijuana, or have sex in a strange position.

--jorge