[ExI] Social right to have a living

Kelly Anderson kellycoinguy at gmail.com
Sat Jul 9 06:17:34 UTC 2011


2011/7/8 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.

So in an anarchy, everyone is a police man? Sounds a bit like East
Germany, in the bad old days... I think I'm with Will on this one...
there is no good answer to child abuse in a free society... That being
said, Samantha's suggestion is really pretty much how it works here in
the US today. Absolutely not a perfect system, FAR from it. Take it
from someone who has dealt with DCFS a lot more than he should have.

The other thing to throw in is busybody teachers looking for
unexplained bruises... My friend who is Korean has to go into the
teacher on the first day of school, show them the blue marks on the
backs of his children, and explain that they are common in the genetic
pool of Koreans, and NOT bruises... sad that he has to take that
defensive a position just to start with.

-Kelly




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