Former libertarian here. One the principals of libertarianism is that you cannot do others harm and if you do so you have to compensate them. The issue with tha

Former libertarian here. One the principals of libertarianism is that you cannot do others harm and if you do so you have to compensate them. The issue with that idea is risk management. How do you compensate someone whose products and services has killed or handicapped someone? A life for a life? Bring back the Code of Hammurabi? The best thing we could come up with is that as long as you follow a set of risk limiting rules then you will be spared from the highest punishment.