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Old 12-06-2006, 11:22 PM
valenzuela valenzuela is offline
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Default Re: Should Mild Preferences Have Equal Weight?

solution number 3, the market.

For instance marihuana.


Suppose we have 3 persons.

A, B & C.

A loses 2 happy points if pot is legalized.
B loses 4 happy poitns if pot is legalized.
C wins 13 happy points if pot is legalized.


On democracy pot is going to be illegal.
On the market, person C gets to have pot because person A and person B are not going to bother on enforcing anti-marihuana laws, specially because they are going to find a lot of resistance on C.
Even C is by himself he is willing to do a lot more for his right to smoke weed, he is willing to spend more resources, etc.
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