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Comment author: [deleted] 13 January 2013 12:18:56PM *  5 points [-]

This disregards the common-law policies on contract; namely, that contracts involving illegal activity are unenforceable.

People have strong disagreements about what should and should not be illegal. Libertarian arguments can be used to legalize a lot of activity currently considered illegal. Vladimir_M points out that this argument is used almost exclusively to drive ideological agendas.