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2010-05-09 Thread wdg3rd
-- - Jay P Hailey jayphai...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Jay P Hailey jayphai...@yahoo.com To: LibertarianEnterprise@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, May 8, 2010 8:01:36 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [LibertarianEnterprise] Re: A question - For example, Michael Jackson

Re: [LibertarianEnterprise] Re: A question -

2010-05-09 Thread Jay P Hailey
Libertarian society CAN punish violations of the Non-Aggression Principle.. It is entirely moral to have a Justice League that helps Victims hunt down and punish Aggressors. After all, enforcing NAP is never a violation of NAP. Only if you know for absolutely certain that the target of

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2010-05-09 Thread Jay P Hailey
Bad example: there was no INTENT. I never sadi anything about real Torts. Rephrase your scenario in terms of am intentional ATTEMPT TO INITIATE FORCE and I'll show you a neat surprise. How do you prove intent? because I am not going to shoot anybody because yoou say he had a bad intent 15

Re: [LibertarianEnterprise] Re: A question -

2010-05-09 Thread Jay P Hailey
Jay, I love you like a brother, but you still don't understand libertarianism. We will defend ourselves against folks doing stuff to us, we won't do things to other folks. The Zero Aggression Principle is too simple to play in Network News. -- Ward Griffithswdg...@comcast.net

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2010-05-09 Thread Jay P Hailey
I don't think I said we don't use bombs. Lots of good engineering uses for explosives. I said we don't use them against human beings, because they're sloppy and kill uninvolved bystanders. Again you assume someone who can PARSE that, or juudge what the effect of being a dumbass with

Re: [LibertarianEnterprise] A question -

2010-05-09 Thread Jay P Hailey
It ain't Libertopia yet. We're working on that. -- Ward Griffithswdg...@comcast.net The U.S is heading the WRONG WAY. Like Yogi Berra Said If we keep on going the way we're going, we're going to wind up where we're heading. And that's the opposite of Libertopia But our neighbors

[LibertarianEnterprise] Re: A question -

2010-05-09 Thread Zack Bass
--- In LibertarianEnterprise@yahoogroups.com, Jay P Hailey jayphai...@... wrote: Libertarian society CAN punish violations of the Non-Aggression Principle.. It is entirely moral to have a Justice League that helps Victims hunt down and punish Aggressors. After all, enforcing NAP is

[LibertarianEnterprise] Re: A question -

2010-05-09 Thread Zack Bass
And some of us will do a lot more than simply Defending when we catch them IN THE ACT. Some of us will, when we finally find out who did what to whom, hunt them down to Punish them. --- In LibertarianEnterprise@yahoogroups.com, wdg...@... wrote: Jay, I love you like a brother, but you

[LibertarianEnterprise] Re: A question -

2010-05-09 Thread Zack Bass
--- In LibertarianEnterprise@yahoogroups.com, Jay P Hailey jayphai...@... wrote: Like I said - I think we have to draw a line that leaves intent and other intangible things out but encloses objectively measurable effects. Otherwise, we're trying to decide how to detect, meaaure and

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2010-05-09 Thread Curt Howland
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Jay P Hailey jayphai...@yahoo.com wrote: How do you prove intent? At the Austrian Scholar's Conference 2010, there was a panel of Libertarian Lawyers that I found exceptionally interesting. One pointed out how the concept of punishment was actually a carry-over

[LibertarianEnterprise] Re: A question -

2010-05-09 Thread Zack Bass
--- In LibertarianEnterprise@yahoogroups.com, Curt Howland curt.howl...@... wrote: At the Austrian Scholar's Conference 2010, there was a panel of Libertarian Lawyers that I found exceptionally interesting. One pointed out how the concept of punishment was actually a carry-over from Cannon

[LibertarianEnterprise] Re: A question -

2010-05-09 Thread Dennis Lee Wilson
--- In LibertarianEnterprise@yahoogroups.com, Jay P Hailey jayphai...@... wrote: This is one area where the Libertopian, Free Market Anarchism deal falls down - punishment. The Libertopian system doesn't punish bad people worth a damn. The issue is restitution vs retribution/revenge.

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2010-05-09 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 May 2010, Dennis Lee Wilson was heard to say: Bruce Benson's Enterprise of Law does I refuse to be surprised any more...: http://mises.org/daily/2542 - -- Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they

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2010-05-09 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 May 2010, Dennis Lee Wilson was heard to say: We currently live in a culture primarily dedicated to retribution and revenge (and building prisons). Bruce Benson's Enterprise of Law does an excellent job of explaining how we came to be

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2010-05-09 Thread Wraith
Retribution attempts to punish the perpetrator You say that like it's a bad thing. But in truth Retribution has value to many people and there is a Market for it. There is also a market for initiation... As long demonstrated by history. and leaves the victim with nothing but

[LibertarianEnterprise] Re: A question -

2010-05-09 Thread Zack Bass
--- In LibertarianEnterprise@yahoogroups.com, Wraith wra...@... wrote: There is also a market for initiation... As long demonstrated by history. Absolutely. One reason why it is better to have an Justice League institution than to have plain Market Anarchy.

[LibertarianEnterprise] Restitution vs Retribution redux

2010-05-09 Thread Dennis Lee Wilson
For those who may have missed it, the Restitution vs Retribution issue was discussed on this forum two years ago. Here is a link: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LibertarianEnterprise/message/14794 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LibertarianEnterprise/message/14794 --- In

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2010-05-09 Thread Wraith
At 05:23 PM 5/9/2010, you wrote: --- In mailto:LibertarianEnterprise%40yahoogroups.comLibertarianEnterprise@yahoogroups.com, Wraith wra...@... wrote: There is also a market for initiation... As long demonstrated by history. Absolutely. One reason why it is better to have an Justice

[LibertarianEnterprise] Re: A question -

2010-05-09 Thread Dennis Lee Wilson
--- In LibertarianEnterprise@yahoogroups.com, Wraith wra...@... wrote: At 05:23 PM 5/9/2010, you wrote: --- In mailto:LibertarianEnterprise%40yahoogroups.comlibertarianenterpr...@y\ ahoogroups.com, Wraith wraith@ wrote: There is also a market for initiation... As long

[LibertarianEnterprise] Re: A question -

2010-05-09 Thread Zack Bass
Is a Justice League, that does nothing but ENFORCE THE NON-AGGRESSION PRINCIPLE, a State? Sure, it could be unstable. But it is a lot more stable than Anarchy, which has never lasted more than a year anywhere... always degenerates into Initiation Of Force, since only Market forces are at

[LibertarianEnterprise] Re: A question -

2010-05-09 Thread Zack Bass
There are a lot more places than the USA. Which Article did the Chinese Justice System grow from? The British had a Justice System long before the Colonies began. --- In LibertarianEnterprise@yahoogroups.com, Dennis Lee Wilson dennisleewil...@... wrote: --- In