RE: Re: Adjudicating Pollution Disputes (was Digest Number 3425)

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From: seaorca@... [mailto:seaorca@...]

Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 4:59 PM

Subject: Re: Adjudicating Pollution Disputes (was Digest

Number 3425)

On Date Thu, 3 Mar 2005 16:12:37 EST ChrisMasterjohn@...

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> Inspections can be done privately or publicly.

How will you coerce a business to be inspected privately? And

will I be able to obtain such inspection results under a freedom

of infomation act? Or will I have to pay a large fee? Or will the

results be hidden from the public?

>The difference between a

> public regulation system of the government and private

regulation systems are

> that in the latter you can have diverse sets of standards and

have the selective

> pressure of the market yield the best sets of standards and the

most

> valuable and efficient methods of inspection at the least cost.

Where is your evidence for this statement? The standards used for

government inspections are diverse and particular to the

industry. The standards are selected (or should be) on the basis

of what will produce public safety and are created with input

from industry and business, often conforming to GMPs (good

manufacturing practices) or current food science research (ie

HACCP = Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point).

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As a Libertarian, I don't envision any kind of forced inspection

of anything on someone else's private property. Why would that be

necessary? It is no one's job or right to protect others by

engaging in non-consensual force. Besides, the best way to

protect others is always to protect yourself. Here's how. A

simple inspection of the products you purchased should indicate

if the products were misrepresented or harmful (when used as

directed). If so, you have yourself an excellent civil suit. Your

successful lawsuit will not only make you rich and possibly break

the company, it will send a very strong message to competing

companies to not make the same mistake. Therein is the most

effective and efficient protection you can possibly give to

others, without performing any unconstitutional searches

( " inspections " ).

The role of private companies would be as an optional

product-testing service (testing only products that have already

been purchased). I envision these types of companies becoming

quite successful.

-Mark