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I know a lot of people who would torpedo a jet ski if there were not laws against doing so. but the law protects the "right" of the jet ski owner (the person who burns more fossil fuels) to privatise the entire ambience of the lake or estuary by occupying it with noise, just as the law protects the "right" of the automobile owner (the person who burns more fossil fuels) to privatise the "public" street by occupying more of it than a pedestrian or cyclist (and with lethal force).
in an atmosphere of lawlessness or community sanction, the lone jet skier might not long survive the wrath of the 200 people whose day he is ruining and whose environment he is polluting (and whose health, in some small increment, he is damaging). but "law and order" protects privatisation and enclosure, not commensality and the commons. The difference between theory and practise in practise ...
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