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  • Courts/legal system in a stateless society

    I'm wondering how courts would function in a stateless society without coercion. Let's say someone embezzles money from me, and I want to sue him. Ideally, we (or our respective PDAs) would select a mutually-agreed upon court to act as arbiter. However, what if (1) we cannot agree on such a court...
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by Positronic on Thu, May 26 2011
  • Hunting Outlaws from a Jeep

    Let's say that in an Ancap society you have a group of people known as outlaws. These are people who are no longer afforded the protection of PDAs because of their failure to make amends for criminal actions or violations of contractual obligations. They are banished to the modern day equivalent...
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by CrazyCoot on Wed, Feb 23 2011
  • Re: Should the insanity defense be abolished?

    Is sanity a value scale judgement? I believe it is rightful to compensate victims of property loss, no matter the value scales of the perpetrator. The however is that our current injustice system does not practice just law anyway.
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by Bank Run on Sat, Jun 19 2010
  • Discovering the Right of Self Ownership

    The battle for the natural right of self ownership is expanding. Republicans seem to be leaning towards more libertarian principles, and Democrats are, well, where the Republicans were in 2006 – stuck. This should seem to surprise many people, seeing how Republicans acted during the Bush administration...
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by Kyle on Fri, Sep 4 2009
  • Restitution and Justice for Murder

    How can restitution be made in case of Murder? The victim is dead and cannot be paid. Let's assume that the victim is married and has two young children with his wife. The wife could receive whatever restitution to which the victim would be entitled, but isn't it true that no payment or service...
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by jdcoffey on Fri, May 8 2009
  • Re: Animal rights?

    [quote user="Jon Irenicus"]OK, so rather than ranting, please explain why one should not hold animals culpable for the violation of the rights of other animals.[/quote] Because we are not socialists and we do not advocate the socialization of services -- in this case, the service we are talking...
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by Charles Anthony on Sat, Jan 17 2009
  • Re: Alternative to the income tax

    All: There is a lot of mis-information here, which I suppose is not uncommon. The 16th Amendment did not make Income taxes legal, nor did it allow for income taxes to be assessed withut apportionment. What it did is to make the taxing of income from different sources untaxable at different rates. That's...
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by Donald Lingerfelt on Thu, Nov 15 2007
  • Re: Courts in an anarcho-capitalist society?

    I think one should first how conflicts are solved usually. You'll find out that -in 90% of the cases- they are anyway resolved without a formal court. I see the problem with your example, but then there are similar problems with state-run courts as well. Let's assume the person was identified...
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by Torsten on Fri, Sep 21 2007
  • Re: Courts in an anarcho-capitalist society?

    If Smith has done no harm to Jones, but Jones nonetheless hires an agency to take Smith's car because, as Jones falsely claims, Smith has "stolen" it, then the agency and Jones have both aggressed against Smith. (The agency should have varified Jones's claim first.) What is Smith's...
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by allixpeeke on Sun, Sep 16 2007
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