[ExI] Social right to have a living

[Stefano Vaj]

2011/7/9 Will Steinberg <steinberg.will at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> Government doesn't do this well today.  Children in an anarchist society
>> as well as other interested adults can charge parents if there is evidence
>> of abuse.
>
> Are you serious?  This isn't an answer, and I doubt you can give one.

I would not be too quick in assuming that a multicultural,
well-defined concept of "children abuse" exists.

Ancient Rome was far from a libertarian (o anarco-capitalist?) regime,
yet the pater familias had a jus vitae ac necis on its children.
Remarkably nothing similar existed in other neighbouring, and
sometimes more "primitive", societies/legal systems.

Issues such as abortion and/or cases for "wrongful life", not to
mention  paedopornography statutes extended to ephebic individuals or
computer-graphic images, of course complicate things.

So, no, I do not believe that protection of children is a serious
argument against anarco-capitalism. The nature and degree of such
protection depends to a much larger extent on cultural factors than on
the existence of "public" enforcement methods of the kind disliked by
libertarians.

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Stefano Vaj