Sorry John, After several posts went to Brin-L I thought the problem was fixed. The ones that do and those that don't all have similar headers oh my side.
Original Message: ----------------- From: John Williams jwilliams4...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:30:31 -0700 To: dsummersmi...@comcast.net, brin-l@mccmedia.com Subject: Re: The Role of Government in a Libertarian Free Market On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 7:39 PM, dsummersmi...@comcast.net<dsummersmi...@comcast.net> wrote: >> OK, then why do we have so many more lawyers than much more socialistic >> countries that have a far more complex history of laws than the US? >I'm no really following you. Do you mean to suggest that number of >lawyers is a metric for the quality (or disfunctionality?) of a court >system? No, its a metric on what fraction of GDP is spent on litigation. Since litigation doesn't create wealth, is a drain on society. I also assume that where there are more lawyers, we have the legal system used as a means of individuals assering what they consider their rights in the part of government that libertarians favor. >And why are you comparing to socialist governments? I would think you >would compare to something as similar as possible. There are so many >other things (than number of laws) that could affect the number of >lawyers in a country with a socialist government. Ah, and since I can't track down every possibility, you immunize yourself against falisfication, again. I was going for simplicity, which you say you like, but every time I use it you diss it. >> See, if X is the problem, one would think that reducing X would decrease >> the problem. Yet, the developed country that values and promotes >> individualism the most has the most lawyers. >When America was young and had much fewer laws and less government, >did it have more lawyers? OK, lets look at the 20 and early 30s, when the government was much smaller. Key interpretation of laws clearly posed tremendous restrictions on most people. It's not getting silly. It's just not going the way you want the facts to go. That != silly. Dan M. -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com What can On Demand Business Solutions do for you? http://link.mail2web.com/Business/SharePoint _______________________________________________ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
