[MrB]

hmmm.. I DID say “societal” controls, not specifically government.

Indeed, a community can “impose” its standards of behavior on individuals without any form of government (force) involved.

Shunning was/is an effective practice.

[Tublecane]

“hmmm.. I DID say ‘societal’ controls, not specifically government”

Yes, you did. But you were talking about the workability of “libertarianism” (scare quotes in the original), which (as I pointed out in my response) is a political, not a social, ideology. There is a school out there that scorns all “societal” control, but it is not libertarianism. Though, as I indicated, some political libertarians—J.S. Mill, Max Stirner—succumbed to it. Such people are most commonly called “libertines.”

“Indeed, a community can ‘impose’ its standards of behavior on individuals without any form of government (force) involved.

Shunning was/is an effective practice.”

I agree.