I recently became aware that foundational #Libertarian theorist, Murray Rothbard, actually proposed that people should be able to sell their children. Not only that, but that people should be under no obligation to feed, clothe, or otherwise nurture their children. This is what we are up against. This is the #FreeMarket of #capitalism: one where even children become a commodity and property, and parenthood is something to be purchased. This should give you an idea of what the bulk of humanity is facing, and the sociopathy that underlies it. I havent been this appalled in a long time. The quote is as follows: Applying our theory to parents and children, this means that a parent does not have the right to aggress against his children, but also that the parent should not have a legal obligation to feed, clothe, or educate his children, since such obligations would entail positive acts coerced upon the parent and depriving the parent of his rights. The parent therefore may not murder or mutilate his child, and the law properly outlaws a parent from doing so. But the parent should have the legal right not to feed the child, i.e., to allow it to die.[2] The law, therefore, may not properly compel the parent to feed a child or to keep it alive.[3] (Again, whether or not a parent has a moral rather than a legally enforceable obligation to keep his child alive is a completely separate question.) This rule allows us to solve such vexing questions as: should a parent have the right to allow a deformed baby to die (e.g., by not feeding it)?[4] The answer is of course yes, following a fortiori from the larger right to allow any baby, whether deformed or not, to die. (Though, as we shall see below, in a libertarian society the existence of a free baby market will bring such neglect down to a minimum.) ... Now if a parent may own his child (within the framework of non-aggression and runaway freedom), then he may also transfer that ownership to someone else. He may give the child out for adoption, or he may sell the rights to the child in a voluntary contract. In short, we must face the fact that the purely free society will have a flourishing free market in children...
Posted on: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 21:45:54 +0000
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