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What are the limits to this right?

Let's say you have a right to travel down a road with a bridge on it. Then 1000 people decide to travel across it at once and it collapses. Obviously each individual doing their own thing isn't a problem, but when a lot of people do that thing it becomes a problem.

We all love the idea of freedom, but it always requires responsibility. When individuals do not take this responsibility then issues like the tragedy of the commons manifest.



> Let's say you have a right to travel down a road with a bridge on it. Then 1000 people decide to travel across it at once and it collapses.

We generally solve these purely hypothetical problems that never actually occur by ignoring them.



That bridge wasn't overwhelmed by an unexpected large number of people. It had a design flaw, which was fixed.


After they limited the number of people that could cross at any given time, and then closed the bridge 2 days later. Basically the exact scenario described above as "hypothetical".

It was overwhelmed... yes it was a design flaw. That's the point.


I have a pedestrian bridge near me with a signposted 30 person limit.


Love it!


So put a fee on the bridge or a queuing system. People are still 'free' to move on the bridge. In fact bridge taxes and highway taxes are quite common.


So the court would compel the state to build a stronger bridge




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