Libertarianism has, snce its founding, been a melding of two strands of thought.
1. MORAL: your preferences do not constitute a reason to send people with guns to shoot folks who disagree...except if the other guys are using guns against you.
2. PRACTICAL: governments suck at, and generally break everything they do. Make them do less...especially important things.
As a side effect...the statement: the government broke X so let's have the government ALSO do Y. (To fix it) is perhaps the most profoundly anti-libertarian statement frequently made by libertarian-leaning folks. Most commonly heard about immigration.
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...except if the other guys are using guns against you.
The world has guns leveled in various capacities all the time, so I'm not sure how you break out of the status quo. I get the vibe that libertarians want to find an island to set up their GDP growth shop, but then Cortez or Ayman al Zawahiri will float on over and do a coup de main. You might want to reconsider the border.
Just like China did to Taiwan or Malaysia did to Singapore?
GDP growth shops have a peculiar feature of being rich, and therefore well armed.
Singapore and Taiwan, now there's two places I can get behind: strict border control, strict control on who can be a citizen.
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