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From: gadfly@ihuxn.UUCP (Gadfly)
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Subject: Re: Credentials, State vs. private
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Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 10:23:26 EDT
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> ...  Welders aren't certified, but you can certainly sue for a
> faulty weld.  Mike, why don't you get over this nasty itch you
> have to run other people's lives?
> 
> 					-- Rick.

Welders *are* certified (in Wisconsin, anyway).  You can't get
a job with a shipbuilder unless you've got that certificate.

On the larger issue of government vs. self regulation, I will
admit to some ambivalence.  If you are for the latter, as I
assume most libertarians are, then you must wax ecstatic every
time you hear about silly lawsuits, for without govt. intervention
civil court must be one's first and last resort, and there can be,
therefore, no prejudgement as to the seriousness of a suit.  On
the other hand, it's perfectly obvious that government regulation
(in practice) introduces as much, if not more corruption than
it alleviates.
-- 
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