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I didn't ignore externalities, I just didn't address them. One thing is pretty clear though, governments are currently doing a piss-poor job of mitigating externalities. Again with the Deepwater Horizon spill, if BP were clearly accountable to private property owners, instead of vaguely accountable to a United States government that sucks BP's dick 23 times before breakfast each day, they might have gone bankrupt with all the settlements they'd need to make, instead of the couple of billion they had to pay to the U.S. for violating the clean water act (BP's revenue is like 500 billion a year for comparison).
If landowners also owned the cone of volume from the air above them to deep underground, any air pollution or ground water pollution that they suffer would be considered an act of aggression and they would be in a position to sue the polluter. Anarcho-capitalism doesn't ignore externalities, it just deals with them in a different way than governments do. And on top of all that, no one said there couldn't or wouldn't be laws under these conditions. We just arguing for a state that doesn't interfere in markets and that empowers individuals.
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