On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Robin Hanson wrote:
> Yann Le Du wrote:
> > > I agree that many people highly value their ability to express their
> > > religion. But how much they value a constitutional guarantee to
> > > such expression depends on what they think the chances are that the
> > > government
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, fabio guillermo rojas wrote:
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> On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Yann Le Du wrote:
> > Doesn't the _existence_ of the rule participate in changing the way the
> > people "think the chances are that the government would actually try to
> > stop them" ? I think there's a retroaction pro
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Yann Le Du wrote:
> Doesn't the _existence_ of the rule participate in changing the way the
> people "think the chances are that the government would actually try to
> stop them" ? I think there's a retroaction process there.
You might think so, but for the longest time in A
Yann Le Du wrote:
> > I agree that many people highly value their ability to express their
> > religion. But how much they value a constitutional guarantee to
> > such expression depends on what they think the chances are that the
> > government would actually try to stop them.
>
>... can't a con
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Robin Hanson wrote:
> Fabio Rojas wrote:
> > > But I have often wondered if we could measure willingness to pay
> > > for various freedoms, perhaps by just directly asking people.
> >
> >... There are two kinds of free speech whose price we can measure:
> >freedom of one's own
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Robin Hanson wrote:
> >The evidence is that a lot of people are willing to pay quite
> >a bit for their own free speech. Witness the fact that many
> >are willing to die for the right to express their religion.
>
> I agree that many people highly value their ability to expre
Fabio Rojas wrote:
> > But I have often wondered if we could measure willingness to pay
> > for various freedoms, perhaps by just directly asking people.
>
>... There are two kinds of free speech whose price we can measure:
>freedom of one's own speech (I should be allowed to say what I want)
>and
