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"Laws" and "law enforcement" are just products, similar to any other service That seems like a rather extraordinary claim with no supporting evidence other tha
by MartinCron 13y ago
"Laws" and "law enforcement" are just products, similar to any other service
That seems like a rather extraordinary claim with no supporting evidence other than maybe a brief period of time in Iceland.
If nothing else, those things are different from other products and services in that the demand is particularly inelastic and is tied up with human emotions in a way that doesn't really fit the naive "rational actor" model.
- baddox 13y agoWhy is that an extraordinary claim? They certainly are products. They're things that people want that other people produce. That's not really a statement about history that I would support by giving historical examples. It's simply a plain description of reality.
- MartinCron 13y agoWhy is that an extraordinary claim? Being things that people want that other people produce is evidence that something can be considered a product. The extraordinary claim is that there isn't anything at all special about something that nearly every civilization has treated in a special way.