honorentheos wrote: Public roads exist in public rights-of-way. There is much more going on than roads and traffic in those spaces in terms of public services. Just the infrastructure in the public right-of-way alone is a tangled web of rights and requires refereeing. The ins-and-outs of who owns what, where it can go, what legal requirements and easements, etc., that dictate who gets to do what where is complicated but the underlying point is that you're poorly informed while being quite insistent about a view that is looking awfully Dunning-Krugerish.
Maybe you should stop asking Socractic questions that don't articulate a point and state whatever point it is you want to make. You ask me what services are provided via the road system. I name some services. You say, "Aha! Other services exist, idiot. Keep guessing what I'm referring to."
You guessed at what I meant without prompting leading me to think you didn't know enough about what privatization of roadways would actually mean to lead me to inquire into what was behind your unprompted guess. It answered the question regarding your level of knowledge. You didn't propose an example of service or demonstrate any real knowledge of what your apparently strongly held opinion entails in practical terms. You took a swipe at some wildass speculative and sophomoric caricature of a position. That's what happened, bud. But tell everyone again how markets do magic because they aren't the government which is corrupt and bad at managing things which they would recognize if they understood how markets work to find solutions. Because totes libertarians are so smart.
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The world is always full of the sound of waves..but who knows the heart of the sea, a hundred feet down? Who knows it's depth? ~ Eiji Yoshikawa
honorentheos wrote:You guessed at what I meant without prompting leading me to think you didn't know enough about what privatization of roadways would actually mean to lead me to inquire into what was behind your unprompted guess. It answered the question regarding your level of knowledge. You didn't propose an example of service or demonstrate any real knowledge of what your apparently strongly held opinion entails in practical terms.
Emergency services such as police response aren't services. Good to know. Thank you for your advanced knowledge.
honorentheos wrote:You guessed at what I meant without prompting leading me to think you didn't know enough about what privatization of roadways would actually mean to lead me to inquire into what was behind your unprompted guess. It answered the question regarding your level of knowledge. You didn't propose an example of service or demonstrate any real knowledge of what your apparently strongly held opinion entails in practical terms.
Emergency services such as police response aren't services. Good to know. Thank you for your advanced knowledge.
Driving on a road in an emergency vehicle isn't a service provided by roads...if you know about what it means for infrastructure to provide services. But whatever. Clearly you got things figured out and it's on everyone else to get on the EA train to a libertarian utopian tomorrow.
The world is always full of the sound of waves..but who knows the heart of the sea, a hundred feet down? Who knows it's depth? ~ Eiji Yoshikawa
There's a certain aspect to this little game you should acknowledge EA. That being, it's easier to fill in the gaps in an otherwise uninformed position if it's basically outlined and color coded. Your initial response was so off of what an informed opinion would have assumed that the only real question I had was what it was you actual thought the functional services would be and need negotiated if roadways were privatized. You answered that question quite well. It is what it is.
The world is always full of the sound of waves..but who knows the heart of the sea, a hundred feet down? Who knows it's depth? ~ Eiji Yoshikawa
