Right now, I'm looking for people with "naive optimism" who would like to see this world. There are a few of us. I'll share concrete details with those folks.
Libertarians don't believe anything resembling that.
Libertarianism requires a government empowered to use force to guarantee peoples' fundamental rights.
If you have more questions about what Libertarianism actually is, feel free to ask, as I am one.
If they don't, then the strongest horse in the area will decide.
Take your pick.
Governments do not grant rights. They either enforce or abrogate them.
As I said.
> The idea of multiple competing law enforcement apparatus within the same jurisdiction is not just theoretical wankery, either; it's actually been tried. Most notably in the Icelandic Commonwealth, which endured for 300 years.
Libertarianism doesn't specify the form of government, just the role of government.
My premise is more: "If people act better, and then perhaps we won't need a system of external control."
I will admit I dream of a world that may not be possible. However, I will continue dreaming, and act to see this dream come to fruition.
I do agree that there is a root problem with any existing power structure not being truely incentivized to reduce scarcity and then loose power, but that doesn't make the thanos solution more ok.
I only see atoms dancing around. That doesn't make it a useful abstraction at the scale we are discussing. Government is just an abstraction over a group of people self organizing.
> People feeling they have a right to use violence to achieve their goals, not so much.
Agreed, but government monopoly on violence is the only system that seems to have stuck. I would prefer a system of anarchy where everybody just did the right thing, but I haven't seen any evidence such a system lasts more than hours. Maybe we have to eradicate the cultural training and distrust we have already instilled into ourselves too. I've sat down and worked out the "root philosophy" of our political opinions with as many folks who will sit still for it, and this smells like the "Libertarian presumption that people, removed from the system of control, would all act better" and being in active denial that their planed solution for nonconformity they can't handle is "round up a posse and threaten/kill nonconformists".