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EUGENE VOLOKH: Thugs Win Again. We would, of course, be better off in a society without thuggery. ?

By Glenn Reynolds

EUGENE VOLOKH: Thugs Win Again. We would, of course, be better off in a society without thuggery. However, so long as thuggery is rewarded — and at the moment, it pretty clearly is — many people who would otherwise avoid thuggery will choose to engage in it, because the incentives point that way. I have been warning of this phenomenon for a while, but I predict that it will change only when we start to see thuggery emanating from groups whose thuggish behavior tends to threaten, rather than entrench, the position of those establishing the incentives. In that sense, this may be a mildly hopeful sign . . . .

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on February 26, 2011 (boomark / email).