It may, but anything beyond defending property rights is an unjustifiable use of force. So it handcuffs what is justifiable to only include that which doesn’t violate our natural rights.

Could this happen without centralization? I suspect it could.

Bitcoin is a great example of an emerging voluntary system that is not centralized yet delivers a just system which naturally helps to protect individual liberty.

What is possible? I am not 100% sure. But I do believe that it is not moral or right to go any further than that with the use of force. The Non-Aggression Principle is valuable and the more it is esteemed in a society, the more chance it has to become the law.

Through greater consensus and striving for what is right, we can hope to put it to the test.

It starts by building enough of a consensus. We are much further than we were a decade or two ago.

I have a feeling that if Rothbard were with us today, he would be beyond excited to see where we are at today with Bitcoin, the propagation of the freedom movement, the peaceful subversion of the state, and the propagation of the ideas of liberty.

Where can this go? Let’s find out!

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How to define and defend property rights of the public (negative externalities of individual contracts) in a libertarian society?

Give me an example of what you’re talking about and I’ll show you how the Non-Aggression Principle applies.

Environmental pollution (air, water).

Water use from a river.

Such are extensions of the NAP and involve property rights.