re: #276 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

If we were all hatched out as fully-formed, healthy adult individuals ready to have a basic education chip implanted in our brains and and then sent out to perform to the best of our abilities in the competitive maketplace, then I could understand the notion of a Libertarian, Ayn-Randian society.

But we are born fully dependent, rely on others to grow, develop and learn, while some of us remain dependent all our lives for various reasons, and most all of us become dependent again with increasing age.

I want to live in a society that reflects those relationships and deals with them in a humane manner, and I want to live in a society where everything is not reduced to the level of a fungible commodity and all human interactions are not merely business transactions.

Murray Rothbard suggested that government requiring you to raise a child with some sort of minimal standards was “force.” You should be allowed to sell your children into slavery if you wish or let them starve because children are your property.