Freedom and rules are two sides of the same coin. Just doing whatever you want in a market does not make it a "free market". If somebody can go and hold a gun to your head and thereby persuade you to give them your goods for free, that's not a free market. A free market needs enforcement of rules of trade. And those rules include that you don't damage other market participants without compensation. Be it a potential bullet to the head, the mentioned "crap on the streets", or carbon emissions in the atmosphere.
>If somebody can go and hold a gun to your head and thereby persuade you to give them your goods for free, that's not a free market.
It's a free market if you can hire private security to stop them. The ban on the violent trade (often called the "monopoly on violence") is an example of an area in which modern liberal democracies do not permit complete freedom in the markets they host. I guess the slogan could be, "not every policy liberal democracies like is a free-market policy."
In a fully free market, slavery, selling of body parts, hard drugs, murders, torture for hire, kid porn, kid workers, nukes owned by private citizens etc. would be fully allowed. Very few people actually want that.
