[quote]smh_23 wrote:
[quote]NickViar wrote:
[quote]smh_23 wrote:
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
Who will make Sloth pay for that damage? What if there’s a dispute over how much damage occurred or the compensation that should be rendered? [/quote]
Hey, get outta here with that logical thinking witchcraft.[/quote]
What if a Mexican crosses the border, damages an Arizonan’s property, then goes back home? One World Government=the only solution[/quote]
How about, answer the question?
What if Sloth doesn’t feel that he should pay. What if, just for the fuck of it, he feels that he’s the one who ought to be paid. What then?
What’s the point in creating these little gumdrop worlds and then refusing to answer the very simple, very direct questions that show them to be not gumdrop worlds after all but instead just so much empty and whimsical nonsense? What’s a political ideology worth when you can’t defend it for more than a few seconds without having to try and cook up some bits of minutiae that just about never happens in the real world but that might kinda sorta be a miniature and negligible real-world parallel to what, in your own ideology, is a gaping and fatal flaw?I ask not because I disrespect you but because I think you’re intelligent and am thus all the more puzzled. Surely you don’t think that capitalism can survive without the contract? And surely you don’t think the contract can survive without contract law? Surely you don’t think that people wouldn’t pollute the whole thing to shit if there was nobody to tell them not to?[/quote]
I can give you the answer to how things should work, but I can’t tell you how they would.
The two parties should attempt to resolve the problem themselves. If that fails, their defense companies(assuming that is what the market creates) should attempt to reach a mutually beneficial agreement. If one or both of the disputants lacks a defense company, then he can deal directly with either the other person or the other person’s company.
As far as it being “minutiae that just about never happens in the real world” goes, why do statists get to dream up things with no idea of how common they would be in a stateless society, but libertarians can’t do the same(except for the fact that most of the situations HAVE occurred in a state)?
The contract is a critical aspect of capitalism. People are all that is there to enforce contracts in a state, just like in a stateless society.
If an anti-statist says, “This is how…,” then a statist will counter with, “What if…?” If a statist says, “This is how…,” then an anti-statist counters with a real world example of how states work, the statist will then say, “But that’s not the way it’s SUPPOSED to work.”
