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You didn’t ask lol but you gotta stop thinking in terms of force and violence. The arbitrator makes a ruling based on the cases each person provides. If one of the parties disagrees, he or she can ignore the ruling but this looks bad on him or her. This is where the social contract is powerful. Who would marry that person who disregarded the ruling of their own arbitrator? Who would do business with that person? Would you marry someone that cheated in the past? Would you do business with someone accused of theft repeatedly? The solution isn’t going to always get you “justice,” but one individual’s loss in a partnership should not be subsidized by everyone in their community. If your partner turned out to be a scumbag that ripped you off, others shouldn’t be punished for it. The community will hear about these things and their reputation will suffer for it. This is how natural justice deters foul play without requiring violent extortion of other innocent people.

Laeserin 1y ago

Natural Justice would be him being challenged to a duel by her brother or shot by her father. Patriarchs are the Justice of the Peace, if there are no official paths to enforce her contract.

The idea that a man can just leave her high and dry and walk away is based upon the error that other men have an interest in allowing him to leave, unscathed, leaving them to provide for an abandoned woman and not even giving them the satisfaction of exacting retribution.

Contracts with women are always de facto contracts with other men. Courts are a gentlemens' agreement, so eliminating courts just means men have to get the swords and pistols out, again.

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MAHDOOD 1y ago

Courts are not a gentlemen’s agreement. I never agreed to be ruled by a court. But yes men may get their swords and pistols and handle their own family disputes. Instead of the current socialist system that makes your loss everyone else’s problem. It’s not my fault Stephanie chose a bad husband. It’s not my fault Joseph’s wife committed adultery.