The offshore areas are public land

@sɪᴅɪsɴᴏᴛʜᴇʀᴇ Which is why there are regulations to prevent that, and you could sue if your water is polluted

As in the state owns that

no regulations are needed

Only private property rights

I’m saying regulations help protect private property rights

They don’t

Like, you can’t dump arsenic on my land because that violates my rights

NAP does

So it’s illegal

yeah ofc

NAP

Regulations however

What you could say is that I’m using regulations to enforce the NAP

To protect people’s rights

Make it illegal to violate others’ rights

You don’t use regulations to enforce NAP. NAP is just a principle, if it’s broken the law enforcement sees to it

NAP is enforced with private property rights

But you can’t just say “by the power of private property rights, I compel you to stop dumping arsenic in the river 50 miles upstream” and the company just goes like “well, I have no choice”

You have to enforce rights

Through private courts etc

If you violate their private property rights it would go against NAP

Private courts seem sketchy at the very least

How

It’s inherently a monied interest

Money and justice usually don’t mix well

and you think that doesn’t happen now?

you can lobby a judge today

Money and justice probably work better

Since there would be quality of justice

for profit

Yet it’s a lot less easy to buy a judge than it is to buy a corporate judge

Now

How so

You can easily bribe

Let’s say that the general population really liked how one court worked

If anything it’ll be harder

They agree that it’s the best court

So they vote to use that court as the court they’ll use

I’d be more okay with that, but then it’s sort of like a government

No because it’s not aggression