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As Murray Rothbard said the basis of libertarianism is the nonaggression axiom, which states that no one may aggress against anybody else except in self-defense. Where libertarians differ from others, when it comes to the nonaggression axiom, is that we apply it to the state as well as to individuals. It doesn't suddenly become ok to aggress against people just because you call yourself government.