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> Would you advocate for the privatization of the entire justice system? What if that meant that people could fire their police department and replace it with
by Natsu 5y ago
> Would you advocate for the privatization of the entire justice system?
What if that meant that people could fire their police department and replace it with a different one if they didn't like the way it operated?
- aniforprez 5y agoIS that in any way feasible or realistic? I don't ever see this even being possible considering the police department is not only going to have more resources, it is in their vested interest to stay in power and are only going to be more aggressive. This seems like a terrible idea
- Natsu 5y ago> IS that in any way feasible or realistic? That would depend on exactly how things were set up, but we do it with politicians who have all the same bad incentives to keep power.
- Teever 5y agoDo you have any examples of societies where this is possible through a privatization mechanism?
- jokethrowaway 5y agoNot modern ones, but medieval Iceland worked: https://mises.org/library/medieval-iceland-and-absence-government https://mises.org/library/medieval-iceland-and-absence-gover...
- tjalfi 5y agoDavid Friedman's Legal Systems Very Different From Our Own has a chapter on the Icelandic legal system.
- anandrew 5y agoAnd how would they collectively decide whether to fire the police or not? Maybe via.. voting?