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To: Jibaholic
The person who lives downstream from a factory sues them for the cost to clean up the river in his property. The Howard Stern libertarians in this thread are like the factory lawyers. They feel entitled to pollute their own private property as much as they want and they don't care that doing so imposes extra costs on people who have children that may swim in that water downstream.

The difference here is, whatever pollution the Howard Stern factory might be spewing, the people downriver are voluntarily paying to be exposed to such pollution.

Subscribing to cable television is a wholly voluntary activity. Nobody is exposed to the pollution against their will.

147 posted on 06/03/2005 7:59:26 AM PDT by Modernman ("Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made." -Bismarck)
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To: Modernman
Subscribing to cable television is a wholly voluntary activity. Nobody is exposed to the pollution against their will.

So you are taking the position that society has zero impact whatsoever on children - that 100% of the variance in how children turn out is explainable through the parents?

The people who live downriver from the factory did not buy the widgets but they still have the polluted water in their back yard.

151 posted on 06/03/2005 8:31:53 AM PDT by Jibaholic (The facts of life are conservative - Margaret Thatcher)
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