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No, but there are libertarians who believe that risk mitigation skills never be required up front, no matter how unable the party at fault would be to restore whatever was lost. (Note: Some things cannot be restored at all; lives and disability being the obvious cases)

The point of government is to mitigate external and unacceptable risks, and we have grown this system based on experience over hundreds of years. Some super free market types seem to argue that we should throw all that away and then institute systems that, over time, will just reinvent the same things. My guess is they believe they will personally come out on top during the reset period through whatever strength/privilege they inhabit.




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