[WalterBright]

That sounds like a case of "Tragedy of the Commons", which is not free market.

Also, police is a requirement because libertarianism relies on government to protect peoples' rights. Gutting the police department is what anarchists do, not libertarians.

If you want to know of a successful libertarian experiement, see the founding of the United States. (Excluding the slave states, of course. Slavery is antiethical to libertarianism.)

[_Algernon_]

No true scotsman

[WalterBright]

??

[conception]

You mean the Articles of Confederation that failed because the government wasn’t strong enough?

[WalterBright]

The Articles of Confederation were not the founding of the United States. The founding was the Constitution.