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08-02-2018, 01:03 PM | #1 |
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please, consult the opening post: i wanna see your list
"It's substantially inferior"
I disagree. # "It's in each individual's interest for the forest to be healthy and used wisely." Yep. |
08-02-2018, 01:13 PM | #2 | |
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08-02-2018, 01:33 PM | #3 |
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"Left to their own devices, people time and time again act in a greedy way..."
"If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind" -Frederic Bastiat
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I think this line's mostly filler.
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Even if an individual does value the long-term well-being of them and their children over a quick buck, if they see their neighbors making quick bucks, and making the landslide inevitable anyway, they may find it rational to make their own quick bucks, in hopes of minimizing the pain. To actually prevent the landslide, an agreement has to be made across the mountain. That agreement and its enforcement mechanism is, writ large across the countless similar situations in the world, government. But that's really just a restatement of the tragedy of the commons. My point is that it doesn't just apply to stuff that nobody owns. Quote:
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