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From: bmg@mck-csc.UUCP (Bernard M. Gunther)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Day to day life
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Date: Thu, 10-Oct-85 15:51:18 EDT
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> > 2 people, A and B, own property directly next to each other.  Person A
> > likes to play his stereo late at night to the repeated annoyance of person B.
> > What would be the correct responce for person B?  
> 
> By my variety of libertarianism:
> 
> One owns rights, not things.
> 
> It is very convenient to own these rights in packages associated with objects.
> 
> Assuming that problems like this really are significant, one can imagine a
> structure resembling a municipal government, complete with zoning laws, 
> emerging. The difference from present governments would be that "laws" are
> the result of voluntary contracts, not political power. Note that I'm not
> saying this structure would really arise - maybe social pressure is sufficient
> to stop loud music without a bureaucracy, or maybe there's a better way which
> the market would discover. But the market could solve the problem this way
> it there is nothing better.
> 
>     Radford Neal

hum...  This sounds like it would have to ability to degenerate *very* quickly
(in terms of genereations) into something very close to what we presently
have.  

Assuming that at one time, the owner of all the rights in a given area are
determined and this person then sells of parts wtih mechanisms for dealing
with rights not currently immagined or foreseen, then wouldn't this be very
similar to our present government, with the single exception that the
origianl owner not was the government?  

You can view the US government as a corporation or entity and all the laws
passed since its formation as extensions allowed for in the original contract.

How would you prevent the society you propose from becoming like the one
we presently have?

It sounds like a nice idea in the begining (much like the west during the
settlement of the part of the country), but it would appear to me to break
down very rapidly.

Bernie Gunther