(July 1, 2013 at 2:04 pm)Koolay Wrote: In an anarchic society were laws are settled in private court, the law would be fairly simple, Did x initiate force to y? Did x commit fraud to y?. And that's all that would need to be established essentially.
I think the first thing that would need to be established is whether or not X recognizes the authority of the court. Or maybe whether or not Y can compel X to show up and face his accusers. And whether the judge can be impartial if his last payment to his security team was deemed "insufficient" and he's walking home by himself every evening.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
