Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site mhuxr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mfs From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: Why private police forces won't work Message-ID: <168@mhuxr.UUCP> Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 17:12:26 EST Article-I.D.: mhuxr.168 Posted: Fri Dec 14 17:12:26 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Dec-84 02:00:12 EST References: <3160@alice.UUCP> <29200175@uiucdcs.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 19 > > Suppose I owe you $1,000 and refuse to pay. You decide to use > > force to collect your debt, so you send your police to my house to > > force me to pay up. They are met by a squad of MY police who > > say that they do not recognize the legitimacy of your claim. > > > > Result: gang warfare. > > Not likely. Protection agencies are in business to make money. Fighting > each other is not a good way to make money. It would be more profitable if > the agencies submitted the dispute to an arbitration agency. Your contract > would specify that your agency will not protect you from the other guy > (in this particular matter) should you lose the arbitration. > > Market forces win again! If you have to submit to binding arbitration, what's the point of having your own mercenaries? Marcel Simon ..!mhuxr!mfs