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During the Wild West, if someone stole your cattle but you didn't know who, you very well might have hired a private investigator to try to find the cattle and
by meowface 5y ago
During the Wild West, if someone stole your cattle but you didn't know who, you very well might have hired a private investigator to try to find the cattle and who stole them, followed by a request/demand to return the cattle. If they refused, maybe you could have filed a civil dispute to make it a matter of public record that your property was stolen by particular individuals, if the option was available. If it wasn't, the only other option was extralegal justice.
The only other option here is also extralegal justice, like committing a crime against the alleged perpetrators or their parents, such as extortion or theft, to try to receive compensation. Most would agree we don't want that to happen. So what do you expect victims to do? Just be like "well, I know who stole my property, but I'm a libertarian and civil courts are kind of connected to governments and I don't want to use anything connected to governments so I guess there's nothing I can do about it"?
I'm not really a libertarian/cryptocurrency maximalist/anti-government/anti-government-issued currency, so I might be speaking out of turn, but I don't think lawsuits of this nature are necessarily incompatible with libertarian values. Besides anarchism-absolutists, I think most people still support some kind of justice system to protect against things like theft and injury.