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[quote user="Angurse"] [quote user="z1235"] How? And would I be coerced into accepting it? This "common" law, I mean. If yes, what's the difference from uniform law? If not, why would I voluntarily submit myself to it? Oh wait, I forgot. If I didn't accept it (say, by sacrificing a 10yr old child to my gods each
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[quote user="Angurse"] [quote user="z1235"]Uniform, perchance?[/quote] No, it differs. [/quote] How? And would I be coerced into accepting it? This "common" law, I mean. If yes, what's the difference from uniform law? If not, why would I voluntarily submit myself to it? Oh wait, I forgot. If I didn't accept it
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[quote user="Jon Irenicus"]You mean the fact that it can streamroll its decisions onto its participants willing or unwilling makes it less... 'vague'? More... 'orderly'? [/quote] Yes. [quote user="Jon Irenicus"]Again, Mr Roboto, what is 'vague' about reputation?[/quote] Everything, pretty much. Z.
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[quote user="Angurse"] [quote user="z1235"]What's "common" law?[/quote] Body of law based on customs and precedents. [/quote] Uniform, perchance? [quote user="Angurse"]Please notice how you contradict yourself:[/quote] No contradiction whatsoever. Once the courts and judges are elected into position your feelings
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[quote user="MatthewF"]What if some sort of rating system were to evolve? Maybe something similar the Credit Rating's we use today...[/quote] If I used Moody's or S&P ratings as guides for the quality of sub-prime mortgage bonds I'd be bankrupt many times over by now. Not sure if you want to go there with this. And that's
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[quote user="liberty student"] This has been disproven to you several times already. A legal system does not provide order, it provides law. They are two different things. Please read this essay by Hasnas, particularly section XII http://faculty.msb.edu/hasnasj/GTWebSite/MythWeb.htm [/quote] I felt that quite the contrary was disproven several
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[quote user="Angurse"]But common law will certainly play a part, there isn't any escaping it[/quote] What's "common" law? [quote user="Angurse"]Once your defense company and my defense company agree to a third party, their decision is final. [/quote] What if there's no party they both find agreeable? [quote
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[quote user="Angurse"]Exactly. That it why an unbiased independent arbitrator is necessary to resolve the dispute. Courts that constantly rule that their clients are right won't be taken seriously.[/quote] Judged "unbiased independent" by whom? Not taken seriously by whom? And how did we just skip over crime in this discussion
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[quote user="David Z"]The tendency of both parties should be towards choosing a fair and impartial arbiter. [/quote] "Fair and impartial" according to what law or legal code? If one (wise and well respected) court felt that a land owner can do whatever he wants with the river that flows through his land, while another (also wise
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[quote user="David Z"]Everyone would prefer to do this, but a decision couldn't bind unless it was the decision of a mutually agreed upon arbiter. So the tendency of both parties should be towards fairness.[/quote] David, if both parties tended toward "fairness" (or, at least, the same perception of it) they wouldn't be having