CDR: Re: It's all property, folks (was Re: Insurance (was: why should it be trusted?))

[Neil Johnson]

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----- Original Message -----
From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com>
To: "Neil Johnson" <njohnson at interl.net>; <cypherpunks at einstein.ssz.com>
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Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 8:14 AM
Subject: It's all property, folks (was Re: Insurance (was: why should it be
trusted?))


> At 10:39 PM -0500 on 10/18/00, Neil Johnson wrote:
>
>
> > So who gets the bid on the environment ? There are some commons that can
not
> > be eliminated so easily.
>
> I hate to disappoint you, bunky, but the "environment" is property.
>
> My lungs are property. If some one injures them, I have a tort. I don't
> even need legislation.
>
I'd rather not have my lungs injured in the first place.

> My land, and that of others, is property, if someone pollutes it, I have a
> tort. If someone upstream pollutes a river running through my land, I have
> a tort.
>

Same deal.  I'd rather it not be polluted in the first place.

And how do I sue some one if there is no judicial system or government to
enforce the
 decision. "Joe's International House of Justice"  ?

Neil M. Johnson
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http://www.interl.net/~njohnson
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