It is due to it being the application of political science. It does not permit failed policies to be continued fruitlessly year after year with idealistic fervour, it is next to impossible for anyone surrounded by fierce libertarian critics to continue clinging on to lies. It is a purely functional machine, lubricated with justice and fueled by free speech.
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Food!CIf5RA2NbM2007-07-31 14:37 ID:3cVCBUme
>>The most efficient justice is to execute people on the spot when they are caught in a felonious crime.
If that's what the majority of people wanted, and were willing to pay for, that's what they'd get.
>> We've already seen Libertarianized justice systems in action, in Texas, Illinois and other states. The jails there are filled with poor people who were unable to mount an adequate defense from the "efficiency" of the justice system that essentially attacked them.
This is down to elected prosecutors herding people into jail like some kind of production line. They do this to make it look like they're doing their jobs properly. Under a market system, everyone has a strong incentive to maximise profits by reducing crime, rather than just throwing poor people in jail.
>> But outrightly privatizing the police and courts? No, that's just another extreme, and the poor -- and petty criminals -- will be routinely denied their Constitutional rights.
As you rightly pointed out, the poor already are denied their constitutional rights. It would seem that the fastest way to reform the courts would be to force them into competition on an open market.