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Sure, but that isn't the question.

Do you prefer mandatory arbitration to being able to use the public court system? That's a privatized justice system.




Considering that most cases of theft don't end up in public courts? Yes I'd be happy to go to mandatory arbitration.


Mandatory arbitration is only mandatory by way of the public court system.


Mandatory arbitration is mandatory in the sense that it takes the normal justice system away, if as the parent posits the normal justice system does not exist then everything becomes "Mandatory arbitration", right?


> Mandatory arbitration is mandatory in the sense that it takes the normal justice system away

No, it is mandatory in the sense that parties will be obliged by the normal justice system to submit to the specified process and will be held bound by the results by the normal justice system (with narrow exceptions.)

> if as the parent posits the normal justice system does not exist then everything becomes "Mandatory arbitration", right?

No, if the normal justice system does not exist, there is nothing holding anyone to a particular pre-specified arbitration process or enforcing the results of that process.




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