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- From: starr@genie.slhs.udel.edu (Tim Starr)
- Subject: Re: Private Roads in an Objectivist Society
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.120645.17892@genie.slhs.udel.edu>
- Keywords: Private Roads
- Organization: UDel, School of Life & Health Sciences
- References: <frankp.726588412@galena> <1993Jan16.082422.12521@genie.slhs.udel.edu> <C10Fo2.M5A@newcastle.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 12:06:45 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- In article <C10Fo2.M5A@newcastle.ac.uk> Chris.Holt@newcastle.ac.uk (Chris Holt) writes:
- }starr@genie.slhs.udel.edu (Tim Starr) writes:
- }>frankp@galena.bellcore.com (Frank Perez) writes:
- }
- }>}This might sound a little ridiculous, but what if I own a house and the local
- }>}road is owned by someone else and that person does not let me use his road.
- }>}I now have a house but I cannot enter it because all the local streets
- }>}surrounding the house are owned by this person who will not let me use his
- }>}road. Do you see a possible problem ?
- }
- }>First, this market failure would be rare. Second, few juries would convict
- }>you of tresspassing unless you did much damage as a result.
- }
- }The question is how rare it would be, and what level of failure
- }would be tolerable in such a society. People do get into feuds,
- }and bear grudges. As far as damage goes, the road owner could
- }do something like put a streetlight right in front of the driveway
- }of the houseowner, so getting a car in and out would knock it down.
-
- The rarity would be great that any homeowner would sell away their property
- right in the road leading away from their driveway.
-
- }If this ever gets to the jury stage, does it not seem like a
- }ridiculous waste of resources?
-
- Yep.
-
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