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Did you read that article? You are simply replacing laws and courts from a government to some other body. That is how society progress on many fronts. Society
by FrustratedMonky 3y ago
Did you read that article?
You are simply replacing laws and courts from a government to some other body.
That is how society progress on many fronts.
Society grows, and those rules become 'laws', and those courts become 'the courts'.
If you were to magically break up and get rid of government.
It would just re-form as a new government.
Every revolution just forms a new central authority. A new government.
Because who are you going to call when some company says "you know what, I don't agree with this informal court set up by the local tradesman, I'm not paying".
""In its early days the Law Merchant relied entirely on private adjudication and enforcement. Merchants conducted much of early international trade at fairs throughout Europe. At these fairs local authorities performed regular activities, such as preventing violence, but they didn’t normally adjudicate disputes between international traders.
Nor did authorities enforce the terms of private commercial contracts. International merchants formed their own courts for this purpose and applied their own law to these cases. Merchants’ courts came to be called “dusty feet courts” because of the condition of merchants’ shoes as they busily traveled between commercial fairs. In these courts merchants acted as judges, deciding the disputes of fellow traders on the basis of shared customs. Merchant courts enforced their decisions privately by threatening noncompliant traders with a loss of reputation and merchant-community ostracism""
""Since 1958 compliance with many arbitration decisions occurs under potential threat of State enforcement. In that year a handful of countries signed a multinational treaty called the United Nations New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (NYC). Over the last half-century many other countries have also joined the NYC. According to the convention, signatories agree to enforce international arbitral awards brought to their courts.""
- _0ffh 3y agoYeah rules are important. I was making the point that rules and enforcement mechanisms do not require the kind of exploitative constructs that are ruling over you right now, and for whom you are little more than lifestock.
- FrustratedMonky 3y agoDon't get me wrong. I agree. I'm being ruled by an exploitive construct. It's just, it always comes about. It's made of people, and whatever mechanism you are contemplating, it too will be subverted. I haven't come up with any alternative. Just think reducing regulations would mean more pollution, more stealing. We've done less laws, less regulations, and the world was pretty awful. It's a balancing act. You need people to drive on the right side of the road, and obey traffic signs, but you also don't want government telling you how to set the dinner table. How much control do you give up?