<p>@Woandering </p>
<p>vol·un·tar·y
ˈvälənˌterē/Submit
adjective
1.
done, given, or acting of one’s own free will.</p>
<p>Voluntary does not necessarily refer to volunteers. If people support the environment that a company is damaging, for example, they can simply boycott that company (again, this is just one example). This is completely voluntary (i.e, does not involve the initiation of the use of force). </p>
<p>I believe in the non-initiation of the use of force for EVERYONE. No violence and no war (yes, I know absolutely no violence ever again is impractical, but I’m talking about the standards being applied to everyone in society). Even if there’s no monopoly on it (the state). A thug stealing a wallet is in the same category as the IRS sending you a letter, although at different magnitudes of course. Btw, companies wouldn’t go to war because a company’s purpose is profit, and war costs a lot of money. Also, a state wouldn’t exist if it didn’t have a monopoly over the initiation of the use of violence, because then it wouldn’t be a state. That is literally what a state is. You don’t seem to be very familiar with this, so feel free to ask any questions. </p>
<p>The think about patents is a little odd since patents are enforced thru the state. But the point of the free market is that we don’t know how things should be done. If we did, we’d be the perfect dictator and we wouldn’t be libertarians. 
But yeah, many people are purely ideological and emotionally defensive, which can be quite frustrating. I cringe at libertarians saying “because the free market,” instead of actually explaining the principles and mechanics of it. </p>