On 2016 May 31, David C. Norris commented:

Following Hardin's model¹ , Roman² advances an argument characteristic of that "intolerance of reason" which stands "not often on the side of liberty"³ : A crisis looms, having no technical solution; my analysis of human nature proves coercion indispensable.

Hardin's crisis was the 1960s' looming Malthusian apocalypse. "The necessity of abandoning the commons in breeding" demanded "mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon"¹ -- words that could hardly sound more chilling except against the background of Hardin's eerie silence on all details of said "coercion". Roman for his part volunteers specifics, but only to conflate as "coercion" such divergent measures as cost-sharing (a decidedly non-coercive remedy for the moral hazard which Roman misreads as a 'tragedy of the commons') and outright healthcare rationing: "giv[ing] local communities responsibility for governance of common-pool resources."²

Ironically, Hardin's crisis now yields to technical innovation⁴ plus the spread of liberal values and liberty itself.⁵ Can these same forces not solve also an artificial crisis in which -- unlike Nature's common-pool oceans and atmosphere -- our Treasury has become a healthcare commons purely by an accident of our politics?

[1] Hardin G, 1968 Full text

[2] Roman BR, 2015

[3] Hayek, F. A. The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition. Edited by Bruce Caldwell. 1 edition. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2007. See p. 200 in Ch. 13, titled 'The Totalitarians in Our Midst'. The fuller quotation is as follows:

The influence of these scientist-politicians was of late years not often on the side of liberty: the "intolerance of reason" so frequently conspicuous in the scientific specialist, the impatience with the ways of the ordinary man so characteristic of the expert, and the contempt for anything which was not consciously organized by superior minds according to a scientific blueprint were phenomena familiar in German public life for generations before they became of significance in England.

[4] Whitty CJ, 2013

[5] Bongaarts J, 2011

On 2016 May 31, David C. Norris commented:

Following Hardin's model¹ , Roman² advances an argument characteristic of that "intolerance of reason" which stands "not often on the side of liberty"³ : A crisis looms, having no technical solution; my analysis of human nature proves coercion indispensable.

Hardin's crisis was the 1960s' looming Malthusian apocalypse. "The necessity of abandoning the commons in breeding" demanded "mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon"¹ -- words that could hardly sound more chilling except against the background of Hardin's eerie silence on all details of said "coercion". Roman for his part volunteers specifics, but only to conflate as "coercion" such divergent measures as cost-sharing (a decidedly non-coercive remedy for the moral hazard which Roman misreads as a 'tragedy of the commons') and outright healthcare rationing: "giv[ing] local communities responsibility for governance of common-pool resources."²

Ironically, Hardin's crisis now yields to technical innovation⁴ plus the spread of liberal values and liberty itself.⁵ Can these same forces not solve also an artificial crisis in which -- unlike Nature's common-pool oceans and atmosphere -- our Treasury has become a healthcare commons purely by an accident of our politics?

[1] Hardin G, 1968 Full text

[2] Roman BR, 2015

[3] Hayek, F. A. The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition. Edited by Bruce Caldwell. 1 edition. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2007. See p. 200 in Ch. 13, titled 'The Totalitarians in Our Midst'. The fuller quotation is as follows:

The influence of these scientist-politicians was of late years not often on the side of liberty: the "intolerance of reason" so frequently conspicuous in the scientific specialist, the impatience with the ways of the ordinary man so characteristic of the expert, and the contempt for anything which was not consciously organized by superior minds according to a scientific blueprint were phenomena familiar in German public life for generations before they became of significance in England.

[4] Whitty CJ, 2013

[5] Bongaarts J, 2011