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Your arguments suggest workarounds instead of a stable system. Libertarian mostly believe free market is a stable system, where things get evaluated very quickly and errors fixed without exception handling.

A good metaphor would be government trying to do try/catch all on entry point solving every little problem we have. While we should have explicit exceptions such as use of violence, fraud etc. We should not try to fix every little problem. When user enters data into a form, a password into the email field and an email into the password field. Sure you can make a change in code that would allow both cases. But now you have tons of other vulnerabilities exposed this very instant.

Thus. Neutrality means bandwidth cannot be manipulated by companies, well I remember 90s when we had LAN and private internet bandwidth shared with LAN. Bandwidth had to be chopped, http protocol had to get guaranteed bandwidth otherwise bunch of leechers would destroy vital internet access with their kazaaa, emule, napsters and what not. So Neutrality is not a necessity. While its not a big problem nowadays it was a problem back then and imposing this solution would have made it worse.

Universal access. Well I can easily argue that. There is a bunch of irresponsible people who build house in complete desserts. I know some people like that and they can that but society now has to fund them access to water, electricity and internet. I mean its their choosing. They can build their property closer to the city limits where they would get access to those for significantly less amount of money, they chose otherwise and they are free to do so. So should be I to not help them with their life choices. Problem only escalates as they start to demand shop/grocery access, leisure facilities, public transport etc. By making guarantees of those services we essentially lead to inefficient land usage.



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