Let's hope that anarchists don't turn their attention to the family anytime soon

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We would get arguments like this:

"All parents are flawed. Many, many of them have been known to even murder their own children. Therefore, we must abolish parents."

"If ordinary people force a child into a car with the threat of violence, we call it kidnapping. Why do we think that this is magically different when the people are called parents?"


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  1. Samson Corwell6:56 PM

    I can't see any of the paleos doing that. I can see the atheist/agnostic variety having the potential for that though. There are actually some that lean that way.

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  2. Anonymous7:08 PM

    What about Stefan Molyneux? doesn't he do this already?

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  3. Bobybuilder4:28 PM

    The inability of Libertarianism to handle children, or the senile, is an insurmountable problem. It's one of the reasons I am not one, despite having an individualist, minimalist approach to government. If your philosophy fails for 100% of those you apply it to ...

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