Agreed, such compensation, if it were available, should only be one element
of rectifying the systemic ("intellectual"?) causes of the violation.
Compensation does not equal 'shutting one's mouth,' certainly, or better
yet, actually dismantling the system causes. Your point about compensation
becoming just a 'cost of doing business' is well taken. Insurance companies
try to stop this tendency by refusing to cover business risk.
Lawrence
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-moq_discuss@venus.co.uk
> [mailto:owner-moq_discuss@venus.co.uk]On Behalf Of Marco
> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 3:55 AM
> To: moq_discuss@moq.org
> Subject: Re: MD Things and levels
>
>
> Platt, Lawrence, all
>
> of course I agree that it is fair to be compensated for every
> violation of any
> individual right, such as the right to freedom of speech, the
> right private
> property and so on.
>
> But there's a possible perverse mechanism in this compensation.
> Once they decide
> that (for example) the compensation for my violated freedom is one million
> dollars... a government or a firm could decide to act immorally
> against me, well
> knowing the eventual "cost of the operation".
>
> And anyway it is not by shutting my mouth with money that the
> intellectual level
> gains value. If I can't give my contribution to the intellectual
> level by means
> of my freedom of speech, the loss of intellectual value is not
> compensated by
> any social value.
>
> Ciao,
> Marco
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Platt Holden" <pholden@sc.rr.com>
> To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 5:48 PM
> Subject: Re: MD Things and levels
>
>
> > Hi Marco:
> >
> > In general I agree with your post of 2 Aug. However, I couldn't help but
> > wonder what you meant when you wrote, "It is immoral to measure the
> > value of human rights in dollars."
> >
> > Would you care to elaborate? All I could think of were the lawyers who
> > like to sue for millions of dollars in damages for every imagined
> > human rights violation they can dream including but no limited to
> > "unfair" hiring practices and telling off color jokes.
> >
> > If you meant individual rights such as free speech, private property and
> > limited government, I agree that no dollar value is applicable. Those
> > are rights one should be willing to die for--as millions have.
> >
> > Platt
> >
> >
> >
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