At 11:08 AM 12/16/2002, you wrote:
My intuition is that the government is going to be slightly fairer than, for example, Disney. That's just a guess, though.Are you for real???I'm reading with horror the editorial of your latest crypto-gram. Phrases like "revenge only becomes justice if carried out by the State" or "the State has more motivation to be fair" sound like right out of 1984. What happened to you? This is so utterly ridiculous that I'd laugh if you wouldn't have so much influence on so many people. I got over your idea that arming pilots and people on planes is bad, while armed marshals are good (because they get 3 balls while on duty, presumably), I got over your ignorance of the solution to the public good dilemma - which is NOT state control, but private property and enforcement of property rights - but this is nuts. Do I have to explain to you why the state can NOT be just? Why it has NO motivation to be fair, if it can get away with it? Why the incentives are all wrong - and why, even if we found saints and put them to govern, their *signals* would be all wrong, because they wouldn't put *their* lives and properties on the line? Do you even read the articles whose URLs you present to support your ideas - because the first one, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,64688,00.html , is definitely not friendly to the state's "justice"? I would have thought that someone whose name is well known among cypherpunks has at least some familiarity with these ideas. At the very least, it would have required you to explain why you believe the state is good for justice - something which is definitely alien for most of us!
Bruce
