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Re:DC police used sonic cannon to direct crowd flow during W... by TeMPOraL on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @02:36AM (#16013434)
Path dependence? US went a bit too far in the "individual liberty" direction, and it now can't get out of the mess. In principle, things could be fixed, but good luck getting enough lawyer mass on this.
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Re:DC police used sonic cannon to direct crowd flow during W... by TheCoelacanth on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @09:42AM (#16014980)
Surely allowing police to use excessive force to control protestors is the exact opposite of "individual liberty".
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Re:DC police used sonic cannon to direct crowd flow during W... by imjustsaying on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @10:35AM (#16015303)
>individual liberty causes high prices and low quality. this could be fixed with more lawyers

please elaborate

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Re:DC police used sonic cannon to direct crowd flow during W... by TeMPOraL on Friday December 29, 2017 @04:59PM (#16032297)
Free market causes low quality.

What I meant in my comment was something else though - that strong individual liberty/independence causes difficulties in coordinating people on large-scale infrastructural projects. I.e. by the time you get through all the lawsuits and payouts, your new rail line takes 10x time to build and costs 20x the money a less liberal country would need to spend.

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