Definition

• A non-judicial remedy is a way to resolve a dispute without formal legal consequences. According to the 3LP, only violations of the Legal Principle are subject to legal consequences.
• According to the 3LP, merely because a person disapproves of or wants to discourage non-aggressive behaviors, legal proceedings are unavailable.
• Still, there are many informal ways a person can effect change known as ‘non-judicial remedies’. These include:
  • Any person is always free not to associate with or do business with any other person for any reason. They can also peacefully encourage others to do the same.
  • Property owners can deny business to (boycott) or compete with any person. They can create internal policies that discourage certain behaviors.
  • Public criticism, satire, comedy, and education.
  • Ostracism; social exclusion.

The freedom to make bad decisions

• Intolerant and unkind private property owners can exclude anyone they want based on their prejudices, but this is a double-edged sword - society can do the same to them. Indeed, a racist, homophobic, or in any way intolerant person is not fit to be a member of 3L, so a free society can boycott those who display such abhorrent behavior.
• 3L defends anyone’s freedom to make bad, non-aggressive decisions—that is the price of a free society.
  • If the intolerant person chooses not to do business with the group they’re prejudiced against, that is their right as the owner of the property. Anyone is free to allow or deny entry to people on their property. These intolerant people inflict immediate punishment on themselves by losing the customers they exclude. Then society is likely to punish them further through non-judicial remedies, such as boycotts, public humiliation, and ostracism.
  • The benefit of allowing the racists, homophobes, and generally closed-minded people to visibly expose their intolerance is that it makes the non-judicial remedies for the peaceful majority much easier to enact because they know who to target.
  • Eventually, these unkind people may realize that the people they are hurting most are themselves.