This was inspired by a post I saw the other day.
In my city, there’s a fast food restaurant where people regularly use the drive through, park in a nearby neighborhood to eat, and when they’re done just toss their trash out the window.
What’s to be done about this in an ideal world? My initial thought is that “police” should stake it out and hand out littering tickets to those doing this.
Of course, these police would be unarmed, properly trained in deescalation, and maybe not even part of a greater police department (supposing such department even exists).
But I’m worried that this is just a super lib response, and wondering what your thoughts are. I’m a bit troubled by handing out these fines - these are potentially hundreds of dollars to people who can’t afford it. And an alternative sentence of community service to clean up trash, while there seems to be a sense of proportionate justice to it, is of course forced labor and would be unconstitutional under the 13th amendment but for that exception that people on this website love to quote and dunk on. Moreover, this is a deterrence-based approach which opens its own can of worms.
"in an ideal world" is always a tricky hypothetical. in an ideal world we would not have drivethrus. cars wouldn't be a requirement for functioning in society and society wouldn't be designed to accommodate cars. food wouldn't be wrapped in disposable paper and plastic so it can be unwrapped and discarded 5 minutes later. the point at which we feel we need an agent of the state to force people to be prosocial is so far downstream of so many decisions that produce antisociality in the first place.
but that's just one anarchist's opinion.