The standard birth cycle of laws (lest we forget...)

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The standard birth cycle of laws:

1. No seatbelt law exists

2. Many children and teenagers die in car crashes

3. The mothers and fathers of the dead kids vent their anguish to the media and it eventually reaches politicians

4. The politicians see an easy win in passing seatbelt laws; they get good press, the parents are satisfied

5. The rest of us have lost our right to decide for our own safety in cars for the rest of our lives.

The cycle is the same in every industry:

1. Restaurants operate without any food safety laws

2. Young people die as a result of eating food that has gone bad

3. The mothers and fathers of the dead kids vent their anguish to the media and it eventually reaches politicians

4. The politicians see an easy win in passing food safety laws; they get good press, the parents are satisfied

5. All restaurants now have an overbearing govt breathing down their necks forever

Many libertarians seem to think that it will solve all problems if we just remove these nuisance laws. Ok, if we remove the laws in the 2 examples above, the deaths pile up, and pile up, and with the dead bodies comes an ever increasing number of angry parents. If the existing politicians refuse to make new laws, then the people will just vote them out and replace them with new politicians that will pass the seatbelt and food safety laws.

It is my strong opinion that ALL REMOVED LAWS MUST BE REPLACED WITH AN INNOVATION, or not be removed at all. Sometimes the innovation is as simple as public education about the problem.

100 years ago, when expedition leader Percy Fawcett became famous for exploring the Amazon he repeatedly told reporters and everyone else that if any of his expedition members couldn’t keep up with the group, that they would get left behind in the jungle to fend for themselves. This was the talk. Then in real life, there were several occurrences of members not being able to keep up whether because of poor fitness or sickness and, in every instance, Fawcett did NOT leave the person behind. The expedition either slowed or stopped their progress or it was re-routed and the person was taken to a friendly village to receive care.

I feel this story is a good representation of much libertarian thinking. The talk is that the anguish of the dead parents won’t affect the direction of govt and laws. But the reality is that the birth of new laws will always be affected by dead bodies piling up. If we don’t want new laws, and the heavy-handed enforcement that comes with the laws, then we have to replace those laws with some sort of innovative way of doing things so that the bodies don’t start piling up.

So, I repeat because it is worth repeating: once the dead bodies start piling up, you might as well welcome the “copy-and-paste” legacy government that is sure to follow. Just because a country starts as libertarian, doesn’t mean it will stay libertarian after a generation or two.

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I think you while your end result is correct the steps maybe incorrect. Let me give this meme as an example it doesn’t necessarily mean dead bodies are piling up it could just be the runaway costs of housing, healthcare, whatever you want to fill in the blank with. I think the key is education letting people know they alone are responsible for their own actions and that the government won’t save them from whatever aliment falls upon them. The only time the government should be around is to help you right a wrong from theft or assault. Unfortunately too many don’t see government that way and even if Liberland did not want to engage in certain areas they may still be obligated to by international law like licenses for broadcasting, flying, driving, or other things that are regulated under international law like a passport for instance or certain banking regulations it is unfortunate in that regard Liberland must follow these certain issues but to get back to the op bodies don’t necessarily need to pile it could just be someone is inconvenienced or has an agenda to shape public policy in their crafty way.

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Yes but as the think-tank of this society we have to be the chess-masters that are thinking 10 steps ahead, looking for probabilities and taking action. Having a “sucks to be you” attitude is not something I can be a part of. In fact, I am hereby symbolically changing my political party from libertarian to innovationist. Libertarian feels unnecessarily restrictive.

I want to limit the size of the govt to stop tyranny, but what if we can limit the number of official govt workers but still spend some money (less but still some) to ensure our new country is not “3rd world”. Remember, it’s always the full-time workers that are the tyrants because their whole pay depends on their obedience. Part-time or pay-per-call workers are not likely to be tyrants, they will usually quit first.

I will give an example of something that needs a think-tank innovationist approach. A certain amount of medical care MUST be given to hurt/sick people, regardless of whether it is paid for upfront, later on, or never. In this, we will separate med care into 2 categories: emergency and all other types. The all other types category will be paid for either upfront or through insurance. So it is the emergency care that must be thought about via the think-tank.

A non “3rd world” country must offer (potentially) free emergency care for many reasons.

  1. It demoralizes health care workers to see someone that needs immediate care but isn’t receiving it. A demoralized worker gives worse care even to paying patients. And demoralized workers usually end up leaving the field, just like I did.
  2. It demoralizes the general citizenry to see a person in obvious pain who is not receiving health aid. It makes them more callous to the suffering of others. This is one of the defining characteristics of the “3rd world” indifference to the suffering of others. This is “broken window theory” applied to the entire country.
  3. Eventually the govt must deal with the hurt person anyway. If they die, it will still be the govt that comes and picks up the dead body and applies the burial or cremation.

The good news is that much of emergency health care can be done extremely cheaply. An IV bag is just filled with sterile saltwater. Many medications like aspirin are dirt-cheap. Many of the anti-bacterial natural substances that we should be using for emergency care such as rosemary and echinacea are insanely cheap.

For healthcare workers we can have pay-per-call employees just like volunteer fire depts sometimes do. The firefighter is paid for the time that they respond to an emergency call and they usually respond from their home. We can have healthcare workers that are called in from home to care for patients that don’t have insurance or money to pay. I have been mentally working on a govt funded emergency healthcare system, but I’m not done yet.

The main healthcare system would still be private companies and mostly be funded by monthly insurance payments to the system of your choice. I would personally want to make this monthly insurance payment for myself and my family, but I recognize that there has to be a stopgap system for travellers without insurance, for the homeless, or for random circumstances.

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I think you are correct we cannot be callous towards fellow human beings it is what is supposed to make humans different from animals, but sadly is many parts of society today that is just not the case anymore “dehumanizing” is real and we see it everyday in the way well Americans are bashing each others into tribal groups it is very sickening to me.

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Yes you are unfortunately very correct.

I just had a great idea of a thing we should be working on that will make a lot of the debates I raised above unnecessary. I will give you a teaser by revealing the title, “Treat voluntary taxes as a multi-stage crowd-funding campaign”

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I am also working on an article similar to that but haven’t had enough time to research it the way it needs to be treated, I await your article!

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Great thinking. I have never considered it from that angle. I think you are right. When dead bodies start piling up, it’s inevitable that somebody is gonna have to pay.

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