On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Bruce Johnson <[email protected] > wrote:
> > On Oct 3, 2011, at 5:34 PM, Francis Drouillard wrote: > > > Dump the TSA and have airlines provide their own security. Passengers can > then choose how much security they want. Make airlines insure themselves for > any damage caused by a hijacked airliner. > > > > There, problem solved the Libertarian way. > > > Yes, insured by insurance companies unregulated by that ol' debbil gummint, > so we can expertly choose an insyurance company who may or may not be > fudging the numbers. Of course this is in the skies governed by free-market > principled AIr Traffic controllers so we can choose expertly the appropriate > set of controllers to use among all the others and simply hope out > free-market pilots are well trained enough to dodge the traffic on the > conflicting lanes. > > Finally, since the only way to know how well any given airline's security > will work, in a libertarian world where there are no pesky government > regulations about obsfucating financial and legal records by corporations, > is to know it's rate of failure, which for rare, one off events are entirely > impossible to determine. > > Of course in your free market libertarian world an airline and insurance > company will simply declare bankruptcy when faced with any serious claim, > because any corporation with even the most half-assed lawyers will structure > the airline and insurance companies as one-off corporations, so that ther > eis never any ACTUAL risk of paying off claims. > declare bankruptcy and then start up loss #2...declare then start up loss #3...etc. etc. > > Caveat Emptor only works when the consumer has accurate and timely > information and is expert enough to evaluate it, AND can afford legal > representation to survive through the clogged civil courts system to win out > over the more powerful corporation's legal team. > > In your fantasy libertarian, randian world you're all experts in every > possible field and discipline, true Heinleinian heros and the Worlds Most > Interesting Man all in one. > > Are you considering a second career as a lawyer, because that's what a > Libertarian world is: of the lawyers, for the lawyers and by the lawyers. > > Even IF there are laws against fraud, regulations requiring insurance > companies maintain sufficient capital to pay off potential losses, and rules > previnting liability-limiting tactics, your hatred of government and in > particular taxes will lead to underfunding of any enfoircement agency so as > to render the laws moot. > > hear hear! > The logical conclusion of your Free Market, Libertarian, Unconstrained by > government regulation world is corporate/gangster syndicates. He who has the > gold makes the rules. > > Most of us don't want to live in such a world, and so elect governments to > prevent that sort of thing, because MOST of us are not consumed by the > fantasy that we're "true Heinleinian heros and the Worlds Most Interesting > Man all in one." > > "There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: > The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that > often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading > to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with > the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." > lmfao!!! > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "StrataList-OT" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en. > > -- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
