Oh, well I jumped to conclusions then. The stuff about dramatically reducing taxes (and thus government) and privately funded prisons and gun ownership and individual control over public money is basically economic libertarianism. I was assuming by that point that you believed in private police forces too. Another key feature is the primacy of property rights (which you didn't mention), although that also gets you into social libertarianism.
You made a remark about the government being like a parent figure. For me it was always too easy to focus on government waste and abuse because I grew up with abusive parents. As I learned to separate myself from them as much as possible and heal from the damage, it was easier for me to make some kind of limited peace with the current system, as non-ideal as it is. I now see it as the least bad viable option.
I don't know if that makes sense, but I guess that's why I personally don't really want to go down the road of debating highly alternative societies, libertarian or not. I guess I'm just tired of it.
