The Coase Theorem
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Police shootings of Blacks by threat level 2016
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Will the trolley problem kill self-drive cars?
26 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
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Self-drive cars currently have a driver behind the wheel who has an impeccable license record and a high tolerance of boredom. The police will speak to him if there is an accident.
Whoever writes the software for self-drive cars that do not have a driver watching over things and being personally liable will be sued for every accident that occurs for the rest of eternity that comes off his coding. Ultimately, there will be accidents where the litigation will be against the writer of the software code. That can never be avoided.
There is criminal liability for the self-drive car software writer which can neither be contracted out of or insured against.
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Police shootings by threat level 2016
15 Jan 2017 1 Comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: law and order, police shootings
Source: Police shootings 2016 database – Washington Post.
Does your opinion change if you know the level of threat by those who are at said to be not attacking police such as whether they had a gun, knife or other weapon or were charging police with more than a few mentally ill people do with or without a toy weapons.
Source: Police shootings 2016 database – Washington Post.
It was a lot easier to analyse this database before the Washington Post removed the data filter that easily told you whether there was an attack in progress or not. That filter was inexplicably removed about a year ago.
The retention of that filter would have helped illustrate the point that the Washington Post conceded when it compiled this database. That was less than 5% of all police shootings are in any way suspicious.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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