PHIL 320A Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Telephone Tapping, Invisible Hand
30 Aug 2018
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Claims there are six distinct classes of offensive conduct. Offensive acts on the bus violate both of these types of privacy violations. The legislative problem concerning privacy is the extent of personal privacy/autonomy. Offensive produces unpleasant experiences and causes annoying inconveniences, both of which are surely evils, but not as great as harm. Offense principle must be formulated in a very specific way as to not open the door to unwarranted legal interference. The extend of the offense standard seriousness of offense is determine by three components. Nazis in skokie is a close example of pure insult extreme. The best remedies for public nuisances that cause offense are administrative things like: cease and desist, injections, fines etc. Without these measures the whole public world would become an unpleasant place as revolting as the hypothetical pubic bus, and equally inescapable. Youtube: friedman on the power of the invisible hand. An invisible hand guides economic activity in a free market.
