a problem with the rothbardian legal system : infanticide

[Meistro]

Does anyone and everyone have the right to restitution for the murder as well? Or is it a mad dash, first come first serve?

[katokato]

In a free society (in my view) we would not have prisons like we have them today. People wouldn’t be “locked up.” Instead, criminals would (after they pay restitution through a court of law) be shunned by society. Who wants a thief on their land or in their store? It would come to such a point that the criminal is so cut off from the division of labor and fruits of society that he would have almost nowhere to go and nothing to do. That’s when the entrepreneur steps in and creates free market prisons. These would not be there to lock criminals up, but to in fact serve as a sort of hotel for them. The prisons accept prisoners into themselves and give them a safe place to live and to work (given that no one else wants them). In this sense, prison is a place where a criminal chooses to go rather than a place where he is forced to go.

In a world with 7 billion people, getting shunned is quite hard…

Can you elaborate more?