03-16-2017, 12:05 PM
(03-16-2017, 11:10 AM)The Wonkette Wrote:(03-15-2017, 03:58 PM)Galen Wrote: I never thought of it that way but your right. Should serve as an object lesson as to why governments need to be kept small.Yeah, except for the small detail that I enjoy breathing free air. Reducing pollution is one of those "externalities" that the free market isn't very good at handling.
For the sake of argument, this could probably be handled by common law as well, and was well into the 20th century. Injunctions stemming from personal injury claims were actually far stricter than later statutory rules. Part of the reasoning behind them was to protect corporations from nuisance lawsuits in the interests of development.