Question: Why do you find graffiti on public bathroom walls but not on your own? Answer: Because you own your bathroom---and the rest of your house---so you have an incentive to take care of it. But "everybody" owns the public bathroom---and what everybody owns, nobody owns, and nobody has an incentive to take care of it. Question: Why are massive forest fires more likely to occur on publicly owned land (federal or state) than on privately owned land? Answer: For the same reason you … [Read more...]