From: Kai M. Becker (kmb@kai-m-becker.de)
Date: Wed Feb 12 2003 - 09:21:11 MST
Rafal Smigrodzki schrieb:
> Imagine that all participants in the economy would be required to
> obtain a general liability insurance
Enforced by whom?
> You would be still free to burn and pollute as you want to, except
> when you actually harm another person.
Maybe I didn't get the clue, but as I understand it, a dangerous /
polluting industry would still not be stopped by public will, as long as
it delivers enough profit to pay the insurance. The problem of pollution
would become only an economical equation: How much profit can we draw
out of a business, before we have to pay for the consequences,
regardless of the damages produces in between. What about global
consequences? We still don't know how much we are responsible for the
damage to the ozone layer, the global warming, and we still don't know
for sure, what the consequences will be. But in the meanwhile, the
companies responsible go bancrupt, the persons who were in charge retire
or die, and maybe we all are responsible to a certain degree. How could
any court ever decide such a case and how much money is a premature
death by lung cancer worth?
Kai
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