[sergeantdave]

Contracting private services is a libertarian tenet.

I'll renounce the crown and designate you king. Now go solve the fire protection problem for Libertopia.

[jimt]

Now go solve the fire protection problem for Libertopia.

A volunteer fire department would be one logical solution. There are certainly unincorporated areas in the US where neighbors have banded together to support such a function.

A second "libertopia" solution would be the one you suggest - contracting with a private company. And in libertopia, unless you owned the property free and clear, I imagine anyone financing or insuring a house would demand such a contract be prepaid as a condition of the loan or policy.

If you owned it free and clear you might dispense with it, but because libertopia's justice system would be based on restitution, if your neighbor's house was burned because of some action of yours, you might be working for your neighbor for a long time to restore him to wholeness.

[No Blue States]

Ive come to the conclusion that even if the Libertopians had a good product to sell,(they dont) their salesmen are arrogant elitists who could use a dose of humility and reality.

Not only will I no longer consider the message, I will work against them.