DOMA and Prop 8. Both History.

[kandrathe]

So if an inhabitant of Libertaria decides to leave and pack all his\her belongings, they're certainly free to do so. It's in the name after all. And what happens, if that individual is, say the owner of the community power plant.

Or holds some key structure that is necessary to the survival of the community. I mean literally, like this guy\gal owns the grain mill, or the industrial oxygen re-combinator unit that allows people to breathe air, or the unobtainium reactor that powers everything in Libertaria.

If you owned something, like a dam, or a power plant, or the desalinization plant... then, you'd own it until you sold it to someone willing to buy it. Yes, you are correct, you'd have trouble taking it with you, so you'd leave it there until you could sell it to someone.

I'm not deluded into thinking no bad things occur, or bad people exist in Libertaria, just that they would tend to be less likely to originate from government. I would be hopeful government there would be quite limited, and therefore less coercive. Unlike our Hope and Change -- "Cough up those thumb drives and come in peacefully, and we'll consider not killing you for outing our violations of everyone's rights and embarrassing us to our formerly close friends."

If you are in a disagreement with your Angry Old Man neighbor Joe over the color of your common fence, that is negotiable. If you are fighting the city, the state, or the national government over the color of fences, then you're often fighting a losing battle.

Atlas Shrugged imho is a cautionary tale of "parasites", "looters", and "moochers" run amok. All classes in the novel were rife with corruption, seeking to get their wealth by taking it from others who had earned it honestly.