By William Skinner, G. William Skinner, Hugh D. R. Baker
ISBN-10: 0804708924
ISBN-13: 9780804708920
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Suppose now that on seeing that voluntary kidney donations aren’t going to be forthcoming in sufficient number, someone embarks on a new scheme to solve the problem. He announces the formation of a kidney club. Members of this club, he declares, are guaranteed a kidney if they should ever need one. Becoming a member requires only one thing: that you sign a contract stipulating that when any member of the club should need a kidney, you will participate in a “kidney lottery,” by which the club will randomly select a member who must then donate one of his kidneys to his needy fellow club member—and that if you are selected, that is what you will do.
It would be a promise for X to keep (and if he does not keep it, to pay me damages on account of his breach)—unless he in turn had bothered to enter into a separate contract with Y requiring him to abstain from pig farming as well. But if X did not do that, then X’s contract is X’s business, and Y can engage in as much pig farming as he likes. , as a transfer of property rights). We would then say that what I gave X was not simply some land but land subject to the obligation not to use it as a pig farm.
There is a competition between the citizenry and the Primary Claimholder that is perfectly analogous to the situation in the emergency room. If the Primary Claimholder gets his way—gets his legs treated, or gets to emit pollutants—then the Spoiler’s claim (Bea’s, or the town’s citizenry’s) cannot be honored. In other words, just as Bea’s claim to getting her leg treated has to yield to Al’s claim to getting his two legs treated, so the town’s claim to keeping its air pollution-free has to yield to Al Corporation’s claim to producing medication and thereby inflicting such pollution.