..but there are “libertarians” who would disagree with you
Voluntaryism does not disagree with me, though.
Consider the situations of poor people who have no material means of making another person whole in the event they are found at fault for damages to another person. History shows (especially in India) those poor people being taken into involuntary servitude as a ‘just’ result. What is to prevent that from happening again?
This is happening now, on a staggering level, because of the cultural legitimization of state-sanctioned violence, i.e. statism. What happens to people who cannot afford to pay their taxes, regulatory/licensing fees, etc? These people end up turning to drugs or are incarcerated for not “paying enough” in taxes (extorted funds). Meanwhile the cartels themselves (government and state-embedded corporations) bail each other out. The “warlord” situation literally is now.
I haven’t read any of his books, but David Friedman goes into great detail about what private law societies might look like in his work. The YouTube channel “Man Against the State” has some excellent resources as well. The “what ifs” have been explored and expounded upon deeply, but in the end, it does not matter. Even if there were no answers to your “what if” questions, slavery still remains immoral. Objectively so, if minimal violence is the goal.
Asking “But who will pick the cotton?” will never be a valid reason to prolong slavery for even one millisecond.
All true. I don’t know how to get to a voluntary society or how it will work but i know somethings that should not be allowed to happen; yet people cower in fear of the unknown desperately searching how to fix the current paradigm. There is no fix except for ending Taxation; disbanding congress as it no longer operates with our consent; and to then the courts private and away from opinion statutes to sound rules of voluntary morality.
Right, and to disband these thinks ethically, it is dependent upon individual non-compliance. As long as it requires a "leader" making central policy, that precedent and mindset will simply find new leaders once some temporary semblance of freedom is achieved, and things will tend right back to the formation of a centralized, coercive state. That's how I see it, anyway.