Definition

• When an individual wants to discourage non-aggressive behaviours they disapprove of, formal punishment via the courts is unavailable in a 3L society, but there are many informal ways they can affect change known as ‘non-judicial remedies’. These include:
  • Property owners can deny business to (boycott) or compete with any person. They can create internal policies that discourage certain behaviours.
  • Public criticism, satire, comedy, 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 that display such abhorrent behaviour.
• 3L defends anyone’s freedom to make bad but non-aggressing 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, and then society is likely to punish them further via non-judicial remedies like being subjected to boycotting, public humiliation and ostracism.
  • The benefit of allowing the racists, homophobes and generally closed-minded people to visibly expose their intolerances is that it makes the non-judicial remedies for the peaceful majority much easier to enact because they know who to target.
  • Eventually, it is likely that these unkind people realise that the people they are hurting most are themselves.