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actually, you failed your point, you said abortion was killing sentient life and that killing sential life was evil. You drew a line right there, and i'm saying to you you can't.
Not all environments have tourism value, what about the ocean? large interdependant environments?
Oh, so everybody everybody in the world has to pay for using the athmosphere and decide how it's composed? what if say, 2/3rds of the world doesnt want to pay?
how are you going to keep companies etc. from bribing the people who regulate it? since the fine is enormeous, their incentive to attempt to bribe the inspector are that much greater, and the inspector being able to retire happily in macao for the rest of his life after two bribes may as well comply.
so let me ask you this, what's the most effective way to learn a kid how to bike? give the kid the bike and say "here, have fun trying to learn how to ride a bike" or holding the bike untill the kid got it straight and then let go?
And about the supernational government i was taking your argument of forcing responsibility of pollution on a supernational level and using a completely rational way of doing things one step further, leading to a computer-run technocracy in order to remove negative externalities and inefficiency costs.
100 law abiding citizens buy a sixpack. 80 of them drink it over the course of the week. 20 of them drink it over the course of an hour, and beat up their wives, giving her a minor concussion which reduces her efficiency, but she won't tell the cops on him because she loves him even if he beats her.
Also, in your example the hooligan went to jail, keeping him away from work for a week, instead he's doing low-production manual labour in the private jail, worth alot less than he would've produced in his normal work week, he will also make less money to consume less. So the company he works for gets fined for his inability, and all the other companies that produce things he would've bought lose sales.
The hooligan being arrested leads to a total reduction in GDP, and this isn't really very good at all.