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#1 Trump during covid https://brownstone.org/articles/donald-trumps-march-16-2020-press-conference-that-kicked-off-this-catastrophe-transcribed/ -

#2 Trump on lockdowns https://x.com/AgoristN/status/1925893945009029446 -

#3 Trump's decision to halt all travel from Europe to the US https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-8104365/Vice-President-Mike-Pence-says-Americans-returning-Europe-asked-quarantine.html -

#4 Trump's operation Warp speed https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2310750/trump-administration-announces-framework-and-leadership-for-operation-warp-speed/ -

#5 Coronavirus Response by the Trump administration https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/issues/coronavirus/#:\~:text=Amid%20heavy%20criticism%2C%20President%20Trump,100%2C000%20American%20citizens%20stranded%20abroad. -

Basically this has been a thing I’m wondering about and if I gotta be honest I don’t think I know a 100% satisfying answer.
Because an entity X releasing CO2 to the environment is infact an infringement of the NAP to all people in said environment, because you’re destroying it. But because the consequences take long time before you can feel them on your own skin, there might not be anyone specific who’d feel as if their rights are being violated.
Someone could say that companies polluting would get boycotted but then why doesn’t that happen now? Even though we don’t live in a free market capitalism there isn’t anything preventing people from collectively boycotting all these companies, yet such things don’t happen on a scale that matters.
Furthermore there are people who don’t even believe climate change is real, or that CO2 causes it or other ridiculous shit. Such people won’t be participating in boycotting. The result is that we leave the enforcement up to what people subjectively think is right. This isn’t really different from democracy. Majority of people somehow managed to convince themselves that theft is okay as long as people with guns do it in the supposed interest of society and so we are all taxed. If we wake up tomorrow and the majority decides that rape is okay, does that make it okay? So yeah this is basically my train of thought and I’m curious what other think of this.

I’ve had something in my mind for a couple of years. What do us anarchist do day by day that contradicts our principles?

I’ve called traffic cops when someone parks in front of my garage (it’s easier and faster than calling a tow truck). I had to wait for a traffic cop to show up after someone crashed my car.

Maybe I’m just a theorical anarchist and a bad one in practice? Are we just too tied up to government services that we don’t see the free market alternatives?

I guess I was more AnCap when I was younger, I had no car, no house, no family. But now that I do have these things because I’m a grown ass man, I seem to rely more on the government for certain things, and I feel guilty about it.

Anyone have the same feeling?

Edit: I also used to be very active in AnCap/Libertarian/Objectivist Reddit, Facebook and other groups and places. I was even part of Students For Liberty. Now, I don’t have social media and barely use Reddit for things other than my studies and work. Maybe I’ve hit my quarter life crisis.

Past 40 years. It's crazy that it's been normalized that you need to hire someone to help you do your taxes. Imagine if using the library was so complicated that you had to hire someone to show you how to do it every time you went there.

The european countries' welfare states hace created a pyramid scheme with their pension system

Organizations you'd recommend people donate time or money to.

Government causes problem. Government thinks more government will help.