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Ridiculous, but not by itself conflict-creating, therefore permissibleBalldos
Invasion of the 9 year old girl's property, therefore prohibitedcocaine on 9 year old girl's hair
Rekieta is an aggressor by libertarian standards
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Ridiculous, but not by itself conflict-creating, therefore permissibleBalldos
Invasion of the 9 year old girl's property, therefore prohibitedcocaine on 9 year old girl's hair
Ridiculous, but not by itself conflict-creating, therefore permissible
Invasion of the 9 year old girl's property, therefore prohibited
Rekieta is an aggressor by libertarian standards
How can a child too young to speak give consent to have their diaper changed? Surely the finest libertarian minds can devise a reasonable and consistent answer to this problemSo when does a parent's rights and a kid's rights win over each other?
I've opined on this fairly recently, cf. vSo when does a parent's rights and a kid's rights win over each other?
Accordingly,From an ontological ethical perspective, it's not even a complicated topic
A child is a volitional being in development, psychologically immature and not yet able to fully express their own will or act on it. Guardianship is the exclusive authority to preserve the child until they can direct their own life. It is a rivalrous right, but this is neither ownership of the child or its body, nor is it a license to mold them according to some preference
That right is homesteaded by the first to actually perform the work of guardianship, typically the mother from conception onward due to continuous proximity. The guardian's sole mandate is to maintain the child's original, unconsented bodily and mental state (the condition before they are able to agree to any change) until the child can make informed decisions. Interventions are justified only to preserve or restore that state (e.g. life-saving surgery), not to make alterations for aesthetic or speculative reasons
"Best interest" cannot be defined by a court, a culture, or a political faction. It boils down to a single standard, namely actions that prevent conflict between the child's future will and what is done to them before they can speak it. "Parental rights" exist only insofar as they serve that goal. The moment a guardian actively harms the child or obstructs others from taking over preservation, they forfeit that role.
If you see it this clearly, there is no irresolvable clash between "parental rights" and "child's best interest". They are not opposing claims, but two descriptions of the same underlying structure (the right to guard, bounded by the duty not to damage what one is guarding)
If the child's refusal to eat food threatens the child's survival (not eating enough to live), then intervention is justified as preservation. An analogous situation would be shielding the child from falling off a cliff. However, if the child just dislikes food, yet remains healthy, then it is unjustified to coerce them into eating it. The guardian's right to intervene applies only where the will is underdeveloped and non-intervention would destroy or permanently impair that development.can a 3 year old be made to eat his food even if he dislikes it?
Safe to say that a 3-year-old's cognitive maturity is not sufficient for him to meaningfully self-direct education. Guardians decide the form of instruction only to the extent necessary for preservation and preparation toward autonomy. Accordingly, "to homeschool or not to homeschool" is not an ethical question for the child yet, just a prudential matter for the guardian. The guardian's duty is to preserve or cultivate the child's capacity for future self-ownership, not to indoctrinate or exploit.Can he decide if he wants to learn homeschooled or not?
No time for schooling, straight to the mines. With a child labor force the mines can be made much smaller overallHow would a public school even work without a state? It would be either homeschooling or church schooling.
Correct question. I was arguing in light of the non-libertarian status quo. For instance, homeschooling is forbidden by law in Germany, so parents there don't have much of a choice in the matter without risking life and limb, but from what I know it's possible in the USA.How would a public school even work without a state?
What I'm seeing in many "questions", especially when things like children are involved, is people who have never in their life built or used a coherent framework going out of their way to look for gotchas. Like, not asking questions to understand, but fishing for contradictions, in an attempt to justify not thinking
it's plain to see that it's a rhetorical or optics trick
The only flaws I'm seeing are in mongrels like you who put zero effort into understanding it and pretend that this ignorance is somehow a sign of superiority and insight>REEEE STOP FINDING FLAWS IN MY BELIEF SYSTEM
I would complain that mounting a defense of lolbertarinism is off topic, but this is top lolbert cringe so it is actually on topic but only accidentally.
Lol madmongrels like you
you know full well i referred to the land itself, as becomes clear by the topic, and my use of the word "land" when making the brunt of the argumentWhat is "the country"? It's a conceptual label for a set of individuals, relationships, and terrain. But abstractions can't be owned. The question is analogous to "what color is a promise?"
or private schooling, or homeschooling with parents from different families taking turns depending on which topic they are knowledgeable inHow would a public school even work without a state? It would be either homeschooling or church schooling.
there are two workarounds i know of, both being unavailable if you are too poor, one is registering primary residence outside of german, the other is enrolling your kid in a private school:homeschooling is forbidden by law in Germany
but they will also steal the children of whites without remorse, so i suppose workaround 3 is to marry a muslim/convert?They never dare to interrupt a Muslim or gypsy homeschooling and just do fines.
Right then, that makes the problem even simpleri referred to the land itself
in that case brown people can do lay claim onto it too, which is retarded because that land is public domain which belongs to the volkbecause government ownership is illegitimate and invalid, "public" land can be rightfully homesteaded at will, for it is praxeologically unowned
communal ownership can exist in libertarianism in the form of a contract between willing owners that give consent to predefined use-cases on their propertycommunal ownership
You have to stick to what can actually be claimed. "Mutual understanding" among a tribe can ground individual or shared use of a specific resource, but what it can't do is bind people who never consented to it or extend ownership to unborn descendants. At best, those early arrangements were stewardship customs between living participants, but that certainly does not make for an eternal deed to a continent.in that case brown people can do lay claim onto it too, which is retarded because that land is public domain which belongs to the volk
this actually goes back to the first valid claimants being european (feather indians for burgerland) tribes, which had a mutual understanding (which constitutes a valid contract) that this land is supposed to be communally owned ("commons") under certain conditions, part of which is that the descendants of this tribal group, which in their sum constitute the Volk, are supposed to own it in the future
communal ownership can exist in libertarianism in the form of a contract between willing owners that give consent to predefined use-cases on their property
livertarians dont believe in inheritance of assets?or extend ownership to unborn descendants
The owner designates a successor, the successor accepts. Inheritance is a voluntary transfer of an existing title.livertarians dont believe in inheritance of assets?
libertarians dont believe in trust funds?
A party doesn't really commit or order aggression in itself. The aggressive apparatuses of the government are its three branches.Why is anyone taking the Libertarian Party seriously?
It's an oxymoron, it has no reason to exist
It's like a pacifist serial killer
True. Libertarianism simply states that property rights violations are never okay.Either way, libertarianism is an ethical/legal position, and so far nobody has made any coherent refutation, yet even a rebuttal or retort that's coherent and stands up to scrutiny
It's interesting to me how critics of Libertarians, or generally just people who aren't Libertarian but inquire into it, end up turning whatever discussion they're heaving into something purely speculative, and therefore tangential to Libertarianism.How does that end up working at a nation level? At that point countries would stop existing and it'd be just millions of tiny tribal nations. In the long run you are just going to end up countries again once people start forming pacts and then taking over other peoples land. The more I look at this belief system I start thinking it's just an idealized romanticization of the wild-west.
so if i come to your house and burn your title deed i can claim it myself, because you have no documentationDocumentation and acceptance, and not DNA, are the crucial aspects.