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  • Morality vs. legality of child neglect

    Rothbard writes here : [T]he parent should have the legal right not to feed the child, i.e., to allow it to die. The law, therefore, may not properly compel the parent to feed a child or to keep it alive. (Again, whether or not a parent has a moral rather than a legally enforceable obligation to keep...
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by FlyingAxe on Fri, Mar 2 2012
  • Re: The question of "natural" rights

    [quote user="laminustacitus"]Your point being?[/quote] The point is delivered in this line: Let a man's insensibility be ever so great, he must often be touched with the images of Right and Wrong; and let his prejudices be ever so obstinate, he must observe, that others are susceptible...
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by Daniel James Sanchez on Sat, Jul 11 2009
  • Re: The question of "natural" rights

    [quote user="Ultima"]Rights and values are entirely dependent on your subjective view of the world, and therefore you cannot say that one set of rights & values is better or worse than another, unless you have a basis to compare them by. Even then, this basis will have a different value...
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by Daniel James Sanchez on Sat, Jul 11 2009
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