Re: POLITICS libertarian solution for pollution

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In a message dated 2/17/05 9:49:17 PM Eastern Standard Time,

michaelantonparker@... writes:

> [] On the other hand, the libertarian recognizes no right to invade

> anyone's property or person with pollution, in other words, in a

> libertarian world there would be *zero* tolerance for any pollution that

> spilled over to someone else's person and/or property.

>

> [MAP] But how would you defend yourself against accusations of

> inconsequential utopian prescriptivism here?

>

> How does the private court thing work? It is something like " If you

> guys don't do what that judge says, I'll drop by the next board

> meeting with my shotgun... " or " If you guys don't do what that judge

> says, me and all 20 of my friends are gonna stop buying your

> products... " ?

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Just to interject here, 's view of private courts can be dissociated

from the more general and more widely-held notion that environmental issues

should be viewed through the perspective of property rights and the defence of

person and property.

I'm not very educated on how either would work, (although the environmental

issue is a bit more obvious than the judicial issue) but I just wanted to make

the point that one can hold one position without holding the other.

Chris

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" What can one say of a soul, of a heart, filled with compassion? It is a

heart which burns with love for every creature: for human beings, birds, and

animals, for serpents and for demons. The thought of them and the sight of them

make the tears of the saint flow. And this immense and intense compassion,

which flows from the heart of the saints, makes them unable to bear the sight of

the smallest, most insignificant wound in any creature. Thus they pray

ceaselessly, with tears, even for animals, for enemies of the truth, and for

those

who do them wrong. "

--Saint Isaac the Syrian