the justice system in an anarchist society?

[mudderfugger]

I’ve been your typical minarchist, constitutionalist Paultard but lately i’m starting to see that all government is a waste, especially when it comes to death squads I MEAN military. I mean I agree with most of the constitution but in order to have even a constitutional republic you still have to tax people. Plus i’m sick of the nationalism and overall retarded emotions tied to the constitution. I’m a modern, evolved human being, not a member of a tribe.

So i’ve been looking into things like free market roads and how it’s success where implemeneted. Good. But what about a judicial system? I understand private law enforcement but what about courts and prisons? Where would these people assume the right to be judges in an anarchist society? and prisons. Prisons creep me out regardless but how would a prison system work? How would I sue if a doctor left a pair of scissors in me?

I’m really loving the idea of anarchy but I still can’t wrap my head around the legal system. Please enlighten me.

[Epicurus_Ibn_Kalhoun]

competing justice systems, each with their own laws, people shop around. Purchasing power is king, to the victor go the spoils!

[mudderfugger]

What if another person i’m involved with legally wants to go to a another judge? Where does assume the right to send someone to jail for the rest of their lives? What about the prison they will spend the rest of their lives in? and what about the pair of scissors that doctor left in me? How would one referee that?

[mudderfugger]

Back later to check any new answers and ask anymore questions.

[Tex2002ans]

Here is a Bob Murphy speech given earlier this year titled “Protection And The Market For Security”:

http://mises.org/media/5259

For A New Liberty was the book that switched me from minarchism to anarchism. One of the reasons being that having a monopoly of law does not have the incentives to protect private property:

For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto | Mises Institute

[Giant_Joe]

competing justice systems, each with their own laws, people shop around. Purchasing power is king, to the victor go the spoils!

Don’t know if you’ve read this or not…

Libertarian Anarchism - LewRockwell

(8) The Rich Will Rule

Another worry is that the rich would rule. After all, won’t justice just go to the highest bidder in that case, if you turn legal services into an economic good? That’s a common objection. Interestingly, it’s a particularly common objection among Randians, who suddenly become very concerned about the poor impoverished masses. But under which system are the rich more powerful? Under the current system or under anarchy? Certainly, you’ve always got some sort of advantage if you’re rich. It’s good to be rich. You’re always in a better position to bribe people if you’re rich than if you’re not; that’s true. But, under the current system, the power of the rich is magnified. Suppose that I’m an evil rich person, and I want to get the government to do something-or-other that costs a million dollars. Do I have to bribe some bureaucrat a million dollars to get it done? No, because I’m not asking him to do it with his own money. Obviously, if I were asking him to do it with his own money, I couldn’t get him to spend a million dollars by bribing him any less than a million. It would have to be at least a million dollars and one cent. But people who control tax money that they don’t themselves personally own, and therefore can’t do whatever they want with, the bureaucrat can’t just pocket the million and go home (although it can get surprisingly close to that). All I have to do is bribe him a few thousand, and he can direct this million dollars in tax money to my favorite project or whatever, and thus the power of my bribe money is multiplied.

Whereas, if you were the head of some private protection agency and I’m trying to get you to do something that costs a million dollars, I’d have to bribe you more than a million. So, the power of the rich is actually less under this system. And, of course, any court that got the reputation of discriminating in favor of millionaires against poor people would also presumably have the reputation of discriminating for billionaires against millionaires. So, the millionaires would not want to deal with it all of the time. They’d only want to deal with it when they’re dealing with people poorer, not people richer. The reputation effects – I don’t think this would be too popular an outfit.

[Snowflake]

Incremental plan to anarchy - dissolve the federal government, keep state governments. 50x the competition. Keep dissolving state governments as fast as possible till there’s no more benefit. This plan means that the only thing minarchists and anarchists have to argue is if continuous secession is always better.

[kash-money]

http://store.mises.org/product.aspx?ProductID=335

I’ve been reading essays from this book on and off for a while… it’s got some interesting stuff in it.

[Stranger]

People buy security, not justice. Justice is just a cost-input for the security producer.

Economic goods are not necessarily market goods and vice versa. This is what makes the market for rights and the market for states so confusing.