Starchild,
Individuals interested in purchasing insurance would
tend to favor companies with a history of fairness
and justice.
Best, Michael
Michael,
That's a fair point, but this is not quite the sense in which I was
asking. The insurance companies themselves might typically seek
fairness and justice for their clients, but simply lack the resources
to force the wealthy and powerful to submit to due process. There might
well be a standard industry disclaimer along the lines of "this is the
extent of what we will do to pursue a claim, beyond that you're on your
own."
Or companies might say something like, "Yes, we'll cover that
contingency, provided you enroll in our Gold Plan, which carries an
annual fee of $100,000 or the indentured servitude of four able-bodied
children."
Or most companies might take a less honorable route, betting that they
could make more money with less risk by protecting the wealthy than by
attempting to guarantee justice to the poor.
In fairness, I'm not saying an anarchy would necessarily work out like
this. It's possible the market would find a way around all these
problems, such that fairness would prevail. But neither do the above
scenarios seem unrealistic to me, and it seems like an awful gamble
when contrasted to a system of limited government contained by checks
and balances and charged with protecting life, liberty, and property
which we know would tend to work fairly well as long as it can be
maintained.
Yours in liberty,
<<< Starchild >>>
Starchild,
Individuals interested in purchasing insurance would
tend to favor companies with a history of fairness
and justice.Best, Michael
From: "Starchild" <sfdreamer@earthlink.net>
To: <lpsf-discuss@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: [lpsf-discuss] Re: property rights & conflict resolutionMichael,
I'd be interested in hearing you elaborate on how the incentives of
the marketplace would make injustice bad for business. Also, whilean
inability to effectively guarantee due process to clients might be
bad
business for the insurance companies, wouldn't it be good business
for
the assassination companies?
Yours in liberty,
<<< Starchild >>>Dear Mayor Denny,
You raise a reasonable concern. However, this happens now, as an
institutionalized aspect of democracy.Keep in mind, utopia is not an option. Anarcho-libertarianism
would
tend to minimize problems caused by politicians by reducing the
perverse incentives of political power. However, since humannature
remains constant, there's no promise of totally eradicating them.
In an anarcho-libertarian justice system of competing insurance
companies, for example, this type of "injustice" would be bad for
business.Best, Michael
From: "Mike Denny" <mike@drinksusa.com>
To: <lpsf-discuss@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 4:03 PM
Subject: RE: [lpsf-discuss] Re: property rights & conflictresolution
Dear All,
I'd like to hear some replies to Starchild's concerns that a
society
left completely without government interference, to be negociated
completely by individuals, would resolve righteous disputes of the
poor and powerless against the powerful and rich who could usetheir
wealth and power to shield themselves completely from prosecution.
Maybe I missed something but I feel we need to answer this
question
very clearly if people are going to better understand our
position.
Best
Mike Denny
From: David Rhodes [mailto:dfrhodes@yahoo.com]
Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 1:18 PM
To: lpsf-discuss@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [lpsf-discuss] Re: property rights & conflictresolution
Starchild - I didn't have any specific instances in
mind. It was more of a present day observation.Maybe in the event of death of an owner?? As in,
managing of abandoned property prior to a public
auction. Might be other instances, not sure..David,
I can't help but notice that your wording in
response to Steve implies
that there are some property disputes for which
civil action is not a
very effective means of conflict resolution. This in
turn suggests that
some sort of enforcement mechanism is needed for
when a difficult case
comes up. Is this what you believe?__________________________________
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Michael,
That's a fair point, but this is not quite the sense in which I was asking. The insurance companies themselves might typically seek fairness and justice for their clients, but simply lack the resources to force the wealthy and powerful to submit to due process. There might well be a standard industry disclaimer along the lines of "this is the extent of what we will do to pursue a claim, beyond that you're on your own."
Or companies might say something like, "Yes, we'll cover that contingency, provided you enroll in our Gold Plan, which carries an annual fee of $100,000 or the indentured servitude of four able-bodied children."
Or most companies might take a less honorable route, betting that they could make more money with less risk by protecting the wealthy than by attempting to guarantee justice to the poor.
In fairness, I'm not saying an anarchy would necessarily work out like this. It's possible the market would find a way around all these problems, such that fairness would prevail. But neither do the above scenarios seem unrealistic to me, and it seems like an awful gamble when contrasted to a system of limited government contained by checks and balances and charged with protecting life, liberty, and property which we know would tend to work fairly well as long as it can be maintained.
Yours in liberty,
<<< Starchild >>>
Starchild,
Well put. I also haven't found satisfying answers to my concerns about anarchy. So far the answers seem to involve the same sort of hand waving and appeals to the goodness of human nature that the socialists and communists use. There may be good answers though and I'm interested in discussing the ideas at future LP chats.
Cheers,
Steve
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