Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!ihuxn!gadfly From: gadfly@ihuxn.UUCP (Gadfly) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Credentials, State vs. private Message-ID: <1170@ihuxn.UUCP> Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 10:23:26 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxn.1170 Posted: Thu Sep 19 10:23:26 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 20-Sep-85 06:47:23 EDT References: <4297@alice.UUCP> <1565@umcp-cs.UUCP> <126@l5.uucp> <760@cybvax0.UUCP> <10431@ucbvax.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 26 -- > ... 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. -- *** *** JE MAINTIENDRAI ***** ***** ****** ****** 19 Sep 85 [3ieme Jour Sans-culottide An CXCIII] ken perlow ***** ***** (312)979-7753 ** ** ** ** ..ihnp4!iwsl8!ken *** ***