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If I were to cause chaos at an Indian libertarian gathering, I'd ask the following questions:

1. What was the role of property rights, monetary and financial system and occupational and trade restrictions in startifying the caste system?

2. How would air, noise and water pollution be dealt with?

3. If an unowned, public land is being put to use by villagers for extracting a particular resource, should it be legal for a company to appropriate it and set up a plant or a factory?

4. Should reneging on promises be considered a violation of contracts, i.e. do you believe in the promise theory or title-transfer theory of property rights?

5. If a group of people wants you to regulate the derivatives market in their industry for causing market manipulation, will you concede?

6. If an important temple is privatised and the owner or the trust of the temple doesn't let people of a particular caste to enter, what would you do?

7. Is there such a thing as a just vs unjust property title? How would you define it?

8. What is your view of blackmail and the acquisition or creation of contracts based on blackmail?

9. Should marriage certificates be a part of the legal system and if so, to what extent does the state involve itself in a marriage between a couple?

10. What is the age of consent and should this be determined by the legal system?

11. Is democracy necessary to preserve a libertarian order?

12. Is the constitution necessary to preserve a libertarian order?

13. What will be the final court of appeal when the prosecutor doesn't get a favourable judgement?

14. How would property titles and their transfers be recorded and maintained without a government?

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Austrian Revivalist 6mo ago

36 more questions:

15. Is Georgism truly a Libertarian policy measure if it involves coercive collection of revenue from land owners?

16. If I want to hire a worker or buy a good or service from a Pakistani or a Chinese, and the other person is willingly entering the transaction with me, why should I ask permission from the State?

17. What is the legal status of revenge porn that involves a consensually recorded media and also non-consensual recording of people using cameras in general?

18. Are zoning laws and eminent domain valid under a libertarian legal system?

19. On what basis is a law derived? Is it tradition, reason, historical precedent, data-backed evidence, public consensus or top-down authority? And on what basis will existing laws be challenged?

20. What constitutes a negative and positive externality and how is it defined?

21. Abortion is not a subject of political debate in India and less well-off families do constantly engage in the activity. If Libertarianism is about right to life, then will abortions be made illegal?

22. What is the origin of rights and what does a 'right' really mean?

23. Will the right of the individual, a group or a region to secede from the country be legal under a libertarian legal order?

24. What constitutes 'aggression', 'coercion', 'justice' according to libertarianism?

25. Is equalizing opportunity a libertarian principle?

26. What is the difference between legality and morality?

27. What is your take on the Christian influence on the libertarian movement?

28. People say that Libertarianism and free market ideas are CIA and American government propaganda, is it true?

29. If the free market and competition is truly better than centralised planning, statism, monopoly and socialism, wouldn't the free market and competition also be able to also provide the services of lawmaking, police, courts, fire service, infrastructure rather than a coercive monopoly of the government?

30. Do people have free will or do they not?

31. What is Dharma and how is it defined and derived? Is the government necessary to uphold Dharma, and if it can only exist through a coercive monopoly, violence and theft, is the concept of a state truly Dharmic?

32. What is the true meaning of 'monopolies'? If a particular service provider or goods manufacturer grow large enough to become the sole provider or manufacturer of a service or good through free market and libertarian means, will a libertarian order allow it to exist?

33. If a libertarian legal system is enabled in India, what language will it be run on?

34. If a waqf land is established through a voluntary contract, what is its legal status?

35. If a state entity outside the sub-continent purchases land or buys assets, what is the legal status of this property title?

36. What is the status of untouchability in a libertarian legal order?

37. If a person shouts 'fire' in a theatre when there is no fire at all and people scramble for the exit, what is the legal status of the action of the person who shouted 'fire'?

38. If a person who is drowning enters into a lifelong employment agreement with someone on a lifeboat on the condition of being saved, does it constitute slavery and is this contract enforceable?

39. What happens in a libertarian India when China, Pakistan or other neighboring state decides to invade the subcontinent?

40. If under a libertarian legal order, everyone decides to voluntarily convert to Christianity, Buddhism or Islam from Hinduism, what would you do?

41. If a group of laborers decide to form a union, go on strike to ask for higher wages without damaging any property, would a libertarian legal order allow this?

42. And if an employer decides to fire all the laborers for going on strike and hire other people, is it permissible?

43. If a group of people acquire land surrounding your property and decide not to permit you from trespassing, what is the status of such actions under libertarianism?

44. Is it permissible for people to build mini nuclear reactors and weapons in their own property?

45. If someone commits suicide and writes a note blaming another person for committing suicide, is the blamed person legally liable?

46. Are defamation laws and libel legal or illegal under libertarianism?

47. If a person gets on stage, delivers an emotional speech and people go out into the streets and damage property and harm people, is the person who gave the speech responsible for the riots?

48. If a group of people buy a parcel of land, call themselves socialists and live as a community in a socialistic pattern and promote socialist ideas without harming anyone or their property, start convincing people of socialist ideas, would you permit it?

49. Is intellectual property valid under a libertarian legal order?

50. Is fractional reserve banking fraudulent under a libertarian legal order?

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