[ExI] Brief correction re Western Democracies [WASI am Call To Libertarians]

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Sun Feb 27 14:35:45 UTC 2011


2011/2/22 Alfio Puglisi <alfio.puglisi at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Kelly Anderson <kellycoinguy at gmail.com>
>> Some libertarians go so far as to shorten this list to Army, Courts
>> and Police. There is no reason today for all roads not to be toll
>> roads IMHO. Why not regulate, then privatize prisons?
>
> Because it creates an incentive to incarcerate people? The more people in
> prison, the more profits from prison management.

Come on. I can hardly be described as a libertarian, but to argue that
allowing private healh care services risks to encourage the deliberate
spreadinng of epidemics by their managers or shaheolders,
biowarfare-style, sounds as a rather bizarre and far-fetched argument.

-- 
Stefano Vaj



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