Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site idi.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!idi!kiessig From: kiessig@idi.UUCP (Rick Kiessig) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Libertarian position on certain 'law Message-ID: <237@idi.UUCP> Date: Sat, 18-Aug-84 16:07:36 EDT Article-I.D.: idi.237 Posted: Sat Aug 18 16:07:36 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Aug-84 04:03:29 EDT References: <756@hou3c.UUCP> Organization: Intelligent Decisions, Saratoga, CA Lines: 41 Regarding the requirement of carrying insurance: The question was what happens if you get hit by someone who doesn't have car insurance, with the statement that we are protected from this today by having a law which requires motorists to carry a certain amount of insurance. Well, what happens today if you're hit by an uninsured motorist? Even though people are required by law to carry a certain amount of insurance, many people simply ignore that law and carry none. Enter "Uninsured Motorist" coverage, which specifically covers this case. If people were not required by law to carry insurance, several things could happen in a Libertarian society: the insurance companies could change their coverage and/or rate schedules to compensate (higher rates for uninsured motorist coverage, for example). Courts would insist that offenders pay back any damages, hence a MUCH higher incentive to insure yourself than today, where we have a law with no real meat behind it. Road owners could insist on you providing certificates of insurance before letting you drive on their roads, or perhaps alternately include an insurance premium in any road tolls. The thing that people need to realize is that laws aren't the solution to everything. Given the establishment of some simple, universal rights, everything else falls out as a result. This is what our founding fathers tried to do. We have forgotten this, and let goverment get carried away with what was originally supposed to be a 'sacred power'. What ever happened to our beliefs that innocent people should be protected at all costs? Our justice system is explicitly set up to let a few guilty people go free, rather than have an innocent person wrongly convicted. Yet the rest of government seems to ignore that fact (most notably the IRS), and imposes stronger and stronger legislation, taking away more and more of our freedoms. -- Rick Kiessig {decvax, ucbvax}!sun!idi!kiessig {akgua, allegra, amd, burl, cbosgd, decwrl, dual, ihnp4}!idi!kiessig Phone: 408-996-2399