>how the philosophy that at least tries to remain consistent with the ideal of not aggressing on the life, liberty, or property of others receives some of the most derisive comments.
If you combine the libertarian idea that a property owner can fully control what happens to their property along with the idea that the right to contract is absolute what happens when the entity that owns the road in front of my home says I can no longer use it unless I shop only at his stores?
A lot of libertarian ideas simply do not work when combined together due to human nature to enrich themselves at the expense of others.
> If you combine the libertarian idea that a property owner can fully control what happens to their property along with the idea that the right to contract is absolute what happens when the entity that owns the road in front of my home says I can no longer use it unless I shop only at his stores?
Of all of the hypothetical arguments against libertarianism you might have picked, this is one of the least questionable ones.
If you buy a property today where property access might be a theoretical issue with no direct street access, the real estate agent, lawyer, or title clerk is already recommending/ensuring that explicit easement rights are added into the contract or the deal usually falls apart. Additionally, even if access isn't explicit in a contract, as far as I understand it, courts generally recognize a common-law right to access your property and have a number of doctrines available to ensure that nobody is just boxed in and trapped in a property with no recourse available to access it.
The courts of today don't follow libertarian principles which changes the outcome of my little what if.
A decent amount of libertarian ideas run into issues like this where the assumption is that current non-libertarian systems will keep them in check but this sort of mixed system isn't what a large segment of libertarians appear to want.
If you combine the libertarian idea that a property owner can fully control what happens to their property along with the idea that the right to contract is absolute what happens when the entity that owns the road in front of my home says I can no longer use it unless I shop only at his stores?
A lot of libertarian ideas simply do not work when combined together due to human nature to enrich themselves at the expense of others.