The tense of the tag this will get is wrong

[james_davis_nicoll]

This is more of an "everything would be worse with libertarians":

[...] I think there’s a good case to be made that taxing people to protect the Earth from an asteroid, while within Congress’s powers, is an illegitimate function of government from a moral perspective. I think it’s O.K. to violate people’s rights (e.g. through taxation) if the result is that you protect people’s rights to some greater extent (e.g. through police, courts, the military). But it’s not obvious to me that the Earth being hit by an asteroid (or, say, someone being hit by lightning or a falling tree) violates anyone’s rights; if that’s so, then I’m not sure I can justify preventing it through taxation.

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[celestialweasel.livejournal.com]

This may have something to do with the attraction to Libertarians of cryonics / uploading.

If you kill someone, you are sued (by the person's 'post mortem care company') and with that money the person is frozen.
If they are vapourised then you pay for restoration from a backup since, as we all know, continuity of consciousness is a snare and a delusion.
Therefore what we would think of as murder / vapourisation is reduced to a property rights issue.

Or something.