Video (Feb10,2026) Ecuador.
Employee targeted after management refuses to pay extortion. Misses all 5 shots.
IMO a libertarian private city has no expectation of public access because it's an entirely private space.
Entry is conditional upon acceptance of the rules of that city, and possibly other conditions.
You may even need someone vouch for you to get in to a real good city. You may need to put up a performance bond which is forfeit if you break the rules.
And if you do break the rules, you may be permanently or temporarily exiled from that society.
The lifecycle of a gang does not begin with attempted murder. A typical gang member capable of this act will have a significant rap sheet and conviction history, just nothing hard enough to get them life in prison.
Life in prison requires a high standard of evidence and a hard crime, it is effectively taking someone's life away from them.
What is far less punishing and therefore can be done at a much lower level of crime is exile.
You become violent assault someone as the aggressor, exile. You beat your girlfriend, exile. You commit widespread graffiti, exile. Theft, exile. Fraud, exile. Etc.
Unlike prison, exile does not place a financial burden on the community. Unlike prison, exile can permanently remove you from that society and prevent your return
Because life is prison is so punishing and expensive that many criminals get paroled when the budget gets squeezed long before their sentence is over.
Not to mention that many criminals become better at being criminals while in prison, it's iron sharpens iron.
Exile is something the State today cannot do as it breaks the public access assumption created by public ownership of roads.
This means a libertarian society can offer something the State cannot: dramatically better security and better cities.
You can even create themed private cities. Take the problem of domestic violence, a woman being stalked has no recourse until the perp breaks the law, she can't even get a restraining order, and if she does get one it's effectively powerless to prevent an attack, it can only punish after the fact.
Many women therefore resort to gun ownership.
But a libertarian private society could give you a woman-only community where a person under threat could as long as they wanted, where no men are allowed inside, dramatically reducing opportunity for a stalker to obtain access for an attack.
Or take serial killers. Many of them begin as rapists that progress to murder to cover up evidence of their crimes.
These people would be immediately exiled at the first serious attack they were caught in and not be able to progress to future repeated crime.
And not only would they be exiled from that society, but also similar societies would share blacklists, so they effectively are kicked out of polite society.
What do they do?
They would move to a sanctuary city, like the biblical cities of old. A place that will take anyone. Likely mostly composed of those who have been exiled elsewhere.
This means criminals directly bear the cost of their upkeep (instead of the rest of us paying for those in prison).
It also means they get to keep living their life, just with no risk to the rest of us. Though living with other criminals is a hell to itself. Some of them may even work their way back into polite society.
Ultimately this means a libertarian society not only doesn't have private prisons, it has the exact opposite: special places for virtuous citizens, what I call polite society.
Everyone will want to live in polite society because that's where all the good people are, the beautiful people, the business opportunities, the art, culture, food, investing, etc.
Unlike now where criminals anonymously get out of jail and you could be living next door to some serial rapist and not even know it.
So that's my answer for how we move the world forward in a positive way using libertarian ideals.
Posted by Anen-o-me