At the risk of being deemed Godless thus evil (or, far worse, a socialist), I strongly feel that the wellbeing and health of all children needs to be of genuine importance to us all. — FrankGSterleJr
A lot of people are. You just need vision, courage and the ability to communicate.Why don’t we just organize, find some like minded people, and implement our philosophy by living it and doing it? — NOS4A2
That's great. Then nothing needs to be implemented but the freedom to do it. — NOS4A2
Nobody can 'implement' freedom. In societies where the law does not prevent association among people, freedom to change a community need only be exercised. How a community functions is up to the people who live in it.
I agree - no-one would disagree - until it comes to the question of what children need. Then, we're all over the place.I don't know that anyone would disagree with you. It is always a question of how to achieve such a goal. — Leontiskos
What other state, other than anarchism, wouldn't relegate us to serfdom?
..... but what they all have in common is that it isn't us.
After all, a mentally as well as physically sound future should be EVERY child’s fundamental right — along with air, water, food and shelter — especially considering the very troubled world into which they never asked to enter. — FrankGSterleJr
Excellent. But you should think it through. It is not capitalism or socialism as long as everyone is a volunteer and so can leave when they want to. When that stops - and it always does - Society begins.Why don’t we just organize, find some like minded people, and implement our philosophy by living it and doing it? — NOS4A2
I don't know much about the detail of what he said. But Government does like to think of itself as above the fray. In some ways, it is, but in other ways it is just one part of it. Whether its use of physical force gives it a special role or not depends on whether the force is used to keep the peace or to squash opposition. There is also the awkward point that the people who are the Government are also members of Society and so liable to see society from a point of view within it.Now you're speaking my language. Thomas Paine wrote that writers tend to confound Society and Government, as if the two were one and the same, so I appreciate your distinction. — NOS4A2
I don't know what you have in mind when you say that. I don't see how state can exist without society, or society without the state. They are interdependent.But the State's function is anti-social in both origin and function. — NOS4A2
Yes. The idea that we all know how to bring up children, just because we have been through it ourselves, or because of "instinct" is arrogant beyond belief.they (potential parents) will somehow, in blind anticipation, be innately inclined to sufficiently understand and appropriately nurture their children’s naturally developing minds and needs. — FrankGSterleJr
On the other hand, anyone who is can be confident that their study and research has revealed to them the correct way to do that is also arrogant beyond belief.We can, however, educate young people for this most important job ever, even those who plan to remain childless, through mandatory high-school child-development science curriculum. — FrankGSterleJr
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