Calling all Libertarians : comments [benlehman]

Well, you do have to show a real effect. Not necessarily to the extent of proving harm, but if you can, say, find traces of a contaminant on your property then you have grounds for action against the contaminator.

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So, how should one go after polluters? Let the government legislate againist it before hand, or wait for someone to sue?

BTW, who are the people Libertarians point to as their intellectual founders? It all seems like JS Mill to me, but that just doesn't seem to be correct.

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So, how should one go after polluters? Let the government legislate againist it before hand, or wait for someone to sue?

Generally, wait for someone to sue; if you can prove a real effect, you have grounds to sue; if you can't, then what you're doing is meddling in someone else's business.

BTW, who are the people Libertarians point to as their intellectual founders? It all seems like JS Mill to me, but that just doesn't seem to be correct.

Mill occasionally shows up in the woodpile, though he's not frequently cited. Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Adam Smith, Lysander Spooner, Patrick Henry, Henry David Thoreau, Ayn Rand (to varying degrees; not all of us like her), Murray Rothbard, Milton Friedman, Hayek, Von Mises, Frederic Bastiat, Peter Kropotkin, Robert LeFevre, Peter McWilliams, L. Neil Smith, Robert A. Heinlein, Samuel Edward Konkin III, H.L. Mencken, occasionally Noam Chomsky.

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Wow, that's a mixed bag.

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