You don’t become generally viewed by society as a defector when you file a lawsuit. Private violence defines you in that way, and thus marks you as an enemy of ethical cooperators, which is unlikely to be a good long term strategy.
Someone or some group with objectionable moral/ethical/social positions, seen by a substantial fraction of society, can nonetheless win lawsuits and rely on the state’s violent means for enforcement of the awards.
e.g. a major oil company winning a lawsuit against activists, forcing environmental degradation of some degree.
or vice versa,
e.g. nudist lifestyle and porn activists winning lawsuits against widely supported restrictions on virtual child porn, forcing a huge expansion in the effective grey area of child porn.
The losing side being punished may even be the more efficient, effective, engaged, etc., ‘ethical cooperators’ in relative comparison, and yet they nonetheless receive the violence without any noticeable change in public sentiment regarding the judiciary.
You don’t become generally viewed by society as a defector when you file a lawsuit. Private violence defines you in that way, and thus marks you as an enemy of ethical cooperators, which is unlikely to be a good long term strategy.
Someone or some group with objectionable moral/ethical/social positions, seen by a substantial fraction of society, can nonetheless win lawsuits and rely on the state’s violent means for enforcement of the awards.
e.g. a major oil company winning a lawsuit against activists, forcing environmental degradation of some degree.
or vice versa,
e.g. nudist lifestyle and porn activists winning lawsuits against widely supported restrictions on virtual child porn, forcing a huge expansion in the effective grey area of child porn.
The losing side being punished may even be the more efficient, effective, engaged, etc., ‘ethical cooperators’ in relative comparison, and yet they nonetheless receive the violence without any noticeable change in public sentiment regarding the judiciary.