Dr. Alexander Tabarrok wrote:
>Harry Browne ... said that the way a free society would handle war is to
>offer a prize to the person or persons who assassinated the leader(s) of
>the opposing country. ... say 500 million should provide plenty of
>motivation to guards, wives, snipers etc.
How reliably could we determine who it was that actually did the job?
I could imagine a guard fearing that UG Govt types would put together
fake evidence so they could give the money to someone they favored.
>the only reason I can think of why we don't do this is that it
>would work so well that our own leaders would fear for their lives.
That seems a plausible theory to me.
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