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I don’t need a ruler & am not forcing one on you.

WE do need rules to live by if our rights are to be protected.

The NAP alone cannot do that. In order for it to work, there has to be a common understanding as to what actions do & do not constitute aggression. That requires one law, since competing agencies means competing ideas about what qualifies as aggression

Aggression and what should and should not be illegal is quite easy to determine though. Is there a victim? Was person or property damaged? Was someone dishonest? No, it would not be just the NAP. I never suggested that and apologize if I did. There would be Rights Enforcement Agencies just like insurance companies today to negotiate differences between people and when a crime was committed. We do not need government court systems to make that system work either. Everyone working within the system would either be a volunteer or work for a company too without double standards or special protections under the law.

Abortion: some believe there’s a victim, others don’t.

Intellectual property theft: some believe there’s a victim, others don’t believe in intellectual property so they don’t believe there’s a victim.

Those are just two issues #libertarians disagree on. Most people aren’t libertarian & would disagree on many other things.

Do you see the problem? Prohibition of aggression is useless without agreement on what constitutes it

You can't stop abortion, but the issue of when the father wants the child and the mother doesn't does present a problem. Herbs have been used for thousands of years to auto abort a child. There's no way to stop it. I personally believe it is murder, but I'm not going to use force to stop the woman.

Nope, I do not believe in IP at all.

I'm not a "libertarian." I'm an individual liberty lover first, voluntaryist, and anarchist too. These issues could be worked out in the benefit of most people involved. Maybe the mother who wants to murder the child when the father doesn't would get rightly brought to court for her actions.

Again though... these issues would be resolved in a way much superior to our current system. What we have now is a disaster and needs to be stopped.

How? How do you propose to resolve such disputes with reason instead of violence?

It does no good to agree that aggression is wrong when there can be no consensus on what constitutes aggression. That is why a lawful authority is needed.

Otherwise you’re advocating a system where might & whim must be the determinant

A lawful authority? What the fuck is that exactly? Insurance companies already do conflict resolution and mitigation between two parties. The same would be true for REA's. There is ZERO reason to have any group that is above the law and protected by double standards.

So you’re going to ignore my question rather than answer it? If so, you’re clearly not interested in a honest debate.

Having a lawful authority (meaning one system of law instead of competing ones) doesn’t preclude holding all accountable to it