Tyler Durden wrote on March 7, 2003 at 12:46:35 -0500:
> Tom Veil wrote...
>
> "These fuckards really need to learn what private property is."
>
> ('Fuckards'. I like that. GIMMEE.)
>
> Alright. There's something I'm not getting here, so the Libertarians on the
> board are free to enlighten me.
>
> Let's take one of my famous extreme examples. Let's say a section of the New
> Jersey Turnpike gets turned over to a private company, which now owns and
> operates this section.
>
> So...now let's say I'm black. NO! Let's say I'm blond-haired and blue eyed,
> and the asshole in the squad car doesn't like that, because his wife's been
> bangin' a surfer. So...he should be able to toss me off the freeway just
> because of the way I look? (Or the way I'm dressed or the car I drive or
> whatever.)
That's not a very good way to keep customers. I wonder what the patroller's
boss, the company that operates the turnpike, would think of his actions?
If I was the company, I'd fire the guy.
Otherwise, if the company really wanted such a dickheaded policy, then yes,
it would be their right. Of course, it would also be your right to organize
a boycott, take an alternate route, or build your own spur route.
James brought up an interesting point; that if the road system had been
developed privately, your scenario would not be as big a hassle, as the
road system would more closely resemble the multiple redundant routes of
the Internet.
--
Tom Veil
