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> A more reasonable example would be that it is coercive to deny others the freedom to choose what they ingest.

It's an excellent example to consider, since vaccines are in that category and some people's free choice to not take vaccines impacts the health of people who cannot take them for reasons of medical complication and now cannot rely on herd immunity to keep them safe.

> Reject property rights, and by extension territorial claims of states comes part and parcel with all left-libertarian ideologies.

While I like those ideologies for their moral purity, I think they fail in practicality for the reason you've just described: they're unstable. Another group with organized use of force and a willingness to take and hold territory displaces them, and then they get to define their actions as just in their moral framework, regardless of what the libertarians think.



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