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That depends-- have you ever had something stolen from you, which you then reported to police, after which nothing happened?
by sushsjsuauahab 5y ago
That depends-- have you ever had something stolen from you, which you then reported to police, after which nothing happened?
- lostcolony 5y agoSure, but that isn't the question. Do you prefer mandatory arbitration to being able to use the public court system? That's a privatized justice system.
- sushsjsuauahab 5y agoConsidering that most cases of theft don't end up in public courts? Yes I'd be happy to go to mandatory arbitration.
- dragonwriter 5y agoMandatory arbitration is only mandatory by way of the public court system.
- SahAssar 5y agoMandatory arbitration is mandatory in the sense that it takes the normal justice system away, if as the parent posits the normal justice system does not exist then everything becomes "Mandatory arbitration", right?
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Mandatory arbitration is mandatory in the sense that it takes the normal justice system away No, it is mandatory in the sense that parties will be obliged by the normal justice system to submit to the specified process and will be held bound by the results by the normal justice system (with narrow exceptions.) > if as the parent posits the normal justice system does not exist then everything becomes "Mandatory arbitration", right? No, if the normal justice system does not exist, there is nothing holding anyone to a particular pre-specified arbitration process or enforcing the results of that process.
- Teever 5y agoNo, I haven't personally but I'm assuming that you have. If that is the case did you end up hiring a private detective and security force to remediate your circumstance?
- sushsjsuauahab 5y agoI did not, but only because in my case the monetary damage was not sufficient to pursue it. I would have liked to have seen those responsible be prosecuted for it, though. If the monetary damage was high enough vis-a-vis the ability of the public system to deliver me restitution for my losses, I'd very quickly be hiring private detectives yes.
- Teever 5y agoHow do you imagine the outcome would have been different in a hypothetical world with an entirely privatized justice system?
- jokethrowaway 5y agoI was in this situation, I lost roughly 2k£. I tried to go to court for 8k£ in small claims which is what the law allowed for as a compensation for the crime. This guy got arrested by the police, he was released and then run away to Dubai where he's from. He came back after a month and opened a company under a false name and started doing the same scam. I knew his address, I reported everything to the police and the police dropped the case without doing anything. I'm already paying 25+k£ in taxes every year. If I didn't have to spend that and there would be no police or laws, private companies (aka burly guys with guns) would be needed to ensure citizens safety, in exchange for a fee. Different private companies would need to interact with each other to settle down cases, eventually agreeing on a set of laws to compensate people subjected to crimes. In this hypothetical world, I would have been happy to pay for my protection agency to go and fetch this individual and bring him to a private court where my protection agency and his protection agency could debate whether the crime happened or not. It was a blatant crime so there was no reason I would lose and that guy should have been forced to return my money (according to laws agreed on by contracts between our private protection agencies) or work in jail until I'm repaid.