Re: Nozick's Minimalism

From: Samael (Samael@dial.pipex.com)
Date: Tue Dec 15 1998 - 03:18:43 MST


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From: John Clark <jonkc@worldnet.att.net>
To: extropians@extropy.com <extropians@extropy.com>
Date: 15 December 1998 07:57
Subject: Re: Nozick's Minimalism

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>Dan Fabulich <daniel.fabulich@yale.edu> Wrote:
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> >but doesn't the concept of a PPF sort of undermine the whole point of
> >anarcho-capitalism? I mean, this is my real problem/question. If
there's
> >only one PPF making the laws, how can we expect the laws to be formed
> >fairly under legal market principles?
>
>The difference is that no one organization would be making the laws and not
everyone
>would be living under the same law, you get what you pay for, you get what
you think is
>really important. Example: My PPA strongly embraces capital punishment,
your PPA is anti
>capital punishment but only moderately so. Everybody can't get exactly what
they want and this
>issue is more important to me than to you, so if you kill me your fate will
be determined by a
>arbiter known to be in favor of the death penalty. On the other hand if you
had paid to join a PPA
>that was fanatically anti capital punishment then the arbiter would be
someone who opposes
>capital punishment.

So all criminals would join PPA's that were anti capital punishment?

Samael



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