One of the reasons I quickly soured on Anarcho-libertarianism was seeing how many of them don't believe in Natural Law. They just want to get away from their responsibilities to others and escape the consequences of their own actions. They are convinced that it is the federal government of whichever country they are in, that is holding them to a social contract they don't want to acquiesce to. But it is not the government that defines the social contract: it is the society. Societies under weak governments do not tend to treat the antisocial or wicked more leniently; they treat them more harshly. It costs the wider society a lot of money and resources, to tolerate people stepping out of line or shirking their duties.

For instance, they complain about marriage licenses, as they say the state shouldn't be able to prohibit marriages from forming. Marriages, after all, are part of Natural Order and a covenant between two people. The state shouldn't be involved in that formation, at all.

A marriage license doesn't define a marriage; it merely adds a marriage to an official registry. Marriage is Natural Law and common law encodifies that.

If it looks like a marriage.
And it sounds like a marriage.
And it acts like a marriage.
Then it is a marriage.

I agreed with this, but then I quickly found out that most of them didn't actually believe this. They were just upset about paying alimony or child support. Two things that have nothing to do with marriage formation. In other words, they want to enjoy marriage while it lasts, and then have the taxpayer or charities support their wife and kids when they tire of them or want an upgrade to someone YTH. But a wife and the children brought or born into a marriage, deserve to continue living a life similar to what they have been used to, even if the marriage is dissolved. That is the promise marriage gives women and children, by default, in the social contract. If you do not want this responsibility, then remain alone.

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