>...Want safe drugs and devices? Who determines that? I am sure many consumers see the UL certification on electrical devices and think that the product design

>...Want safe drugs and devices? Who determines that? I am sure many consumers see the UL certification on electrical devices and think that the product design must have been certified a large government agency. Some public goods must be provided by government, but those who think everything requires a government agency seem to forget the regulatory capture, rent seeking, political cronyism etc that can plaque government programs. >...Somebody has done harm to another person. Who determines that? Did anyone ever say that courts should be removed? >...I just think a lot of libertarians are intellectually lazy, blame everything on government and offer no practical solutions. Oh please. One might say it is intellectually lazy to create straw men arguments and then declare victory. If you need an example of trying to offer practical solutions, go to reason.org and you can probably find hundreds of pages of commentary, practical solutions, reviews, etc. The top story on teh site looks like it is on the details of the current state of the air traffic reform legislation being proposed in congress. You can read the digital version of their magazine for free and in fact every issue they have ever published for close to 40 years. Feel free to disagree with what they (or anybody else) writes - but don't make up a story that they (and others) just "blame government and offer no practical solutions". >...There is a lot to improve in this world but dreaming of the ever elusive free market and evil government will do nothing. Many libertarians I know would consider themselves to essentially be classic liberals. I suspect they all would find your characterization above to be inaccurate and offensive. For example, here is a quote from a professor at NYU: "...I consider myself both a libertarian and a classical liberal. … So there are important differences among liberals and libertarians but I view these are differences along a spectrum. Some are principled (“Never, ever, initiate the use of force”) and some are empirical (“Many public goods can be provided privately”) and some are hard to classify (“The NSA should not collect masses of meta data”). Some people will want to take these differences and harden them into different political philosophies with different names and so forth. But I suggest that libertarians and classical liberals have too much in common for any divorce." https://thinkmarkets.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/libertarianism-and-classical-liberalism-is-there-a-difference/ https://thinkmarkets.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/libertarianism...