[quote]smh_23 wrote:
[quote]NickViar wrote:
Now, in a privatized society, the company he chooses to defend him may impose such an astronomical cost on him (after finding him guilty of his crimes)
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Wait, Dahmer gets prosecuted by his own defense contractor? I thought it would be that of one of his victims. What if he has none? Is he going to be tried and convicted and imprisoned by somebody else’s?
And why must they first find him guilty? Who says that this must be, and who enforces it? The invisible hand? So if such a company turns corrupt and begins convicting people who are deemed economic competitors of it, without trial, then that’s only going to stop when enough people catch on and take their business elsewhere?
And who settles the trillions of disputes (per minute) that are going to arise between separate people with separate defense contractors?
Let’s take another small example. Say I live next to a fraternity house. Say they are blasting the loudest music possible, on the largest speakers possible, at 2:30 in the morning on a Tuesday night. Say they continue doing this: Tuesday, Wed., Thurs., Fri., for weeks. Can I have my private police force, which isn’t their private police force, come and stop them? Yes? What authority do they have, and to do what, and who gave it to them? And then, if my private police force and I deem it appropriate, can I do the same thing at 6 in the evening on Saturday? If not, why not?
And if I don’t have a private contractor, can I smoke weed on Park Ave. in NYC? How about shooting heroin and marturbating at the same time? No? Whose defense company is going to stop me? On what authority do they get to decide what I can and cannot do to myself in public? What if I’m Jewish, and they decide that I can’t wear a Yamaka in public? What if they then decide that I’ve got to wear some sort of identification to let people know that I’m Jewish?
And how about children? Are they signed up with their parents’ defense companies? What if the parents don’t have any? Imagine the most backwoods Appalachian time-warp hillbilly hopeless trailer home on Earth, tucked in somewhere among the thin bare trees of West Virginia. A father and his daughter live there. Imagine he has no defense contractor, no law. And imagine he rapes his own daughter every single night. Who’s going to stop him? Somebody else’s private police force? Now let’s imagine we’re in Greenwich, CT., and there’s an upstanding conservative family living their happy, healthy life. Say they own guns, and they’ve got kids. Say their neighbors decide that their defense contractor is going to put an end to this, because they don’t like that this nice family has kids and guns in the house at the same time. So they move in and they take the guns and the kids away. Do they have the authority to do this? If the people who put an end to the West Virginia rape had authority, then it seems these Greenwichers must. And what recourse has the conservative family? Must their private defense force go to war with that of their neighbors?
You don’t have to answer these. A hundred more will crop up in their places. My point is that this would not work, and it would very likely lead to the kind of tyranny that anarchists think they’re subjected to now.[/quote]
His company could challenge a ruling by the court company chosen by the victims’ courts if desired.
If you don’t like someone’s music, you could certainly try to file suit against him. The fact that you’re asking your company to deal with noise, however, is probably going to raise your payments from what they would be if you asked the company only to protect your life. Would the extra cost be worth it? Only you could decide.
If you don’t have any hired defense, you can smoke weed on your property. If you’re on somebody else’s property, it’s up to that person. In a privatized society, “public” wouldn’t exist.
Children, in any society parents are allowed to raise children, bring up difficult questions. I guess I would just say that morality can’t be legislated, and although it’s terrible that some children will have no chance in life due to awful family situations, giving a state control will not improve things. Where is hillbilly mom?
How does an all powerful state deal with any of the situations you brought up? What if a Mexican man kills an American in San Diego, then goes back to Mexico? How about the same situation with Tennessee and Virginia in place of the U.S. and Mexico? How is that currently dealt with? Cooperation is always necessary. A privatized society would likely encourage grkeater cooperation due to the costs inflicted on uncooperative groups. If Company A refuses to come to peaceful agreements, its clients will be paying much more than Company B’s clients, right?
Eliminating legalized robbery/taxation would take care of many current “problems”(situations that bother taxpayers who are only trying to use the state to get their money’s worth out of what’s taken from them). Those same people would likely not freely give away their money to combat a neighbor playing his music a notch too loudly.
At worst, a privatized society would have many of the same problems we currently have(Of course, immigration as a problem would disappear). I just prefer freedom.
