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  • Re: Child Slavery

    There is nothing more saddening or devastating than mass unemployment such as exists in countries such as Mexico or India. I have visited Asia many times on Business in the last century. Crime, family abandonment, divorce, selling your 12 year old (and younger) daughters to brothels, selling your 12...
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by Gerald Spencer on Tue, Mar 9 2010
  • Re: Do you teach your children Austrian Economics/Anarcho-Capitalism?

    Right now, I am struggling to teach my kids not to fight with each other. I reckon it will take them a while to accept the "initiate no aggression" part. Seriously though, I think the best lesson that any parent should learn is that kids imitate. When a kid randomly and frantically grabs stuff...
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by Charles Anthony on Wed, Mar 11 2009
  • Re: The right to abandon & neglect children

    [quote user="Nathyn"]As I said, according to Dr. Evil, we can dump our kids out in the wilderness.[/quote]The benefits of abolishing all slavery, even looking at this from a utilitarian standpoint rather than the natural law standpoint I commonly employ, are far greater than the negative consequences...
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by allixpeeke on Sun, Dec 9 2007
  • Re: The right to abandon & neglect children

    [quote user="Nathyn"]Why should Murray Rothbard's property rights matter, but not the lives of children ?[/quote]The axiom of self-ownership is essential, for without it, there would be nothing to stand in the way of Smith's claim to own Brown. It is because Brown owns himself, and...
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by allixpeeke on Sun, Dec 9 2007
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