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Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig Fails to Take Down Libertarianism over Children’s Rights
mises.ca / by James E. Miller / February 16th, 2015
If you ever want to disrupt a room of libertarians, you should bring up the topic of children’s rights. Similar to intellectual property and private law enforcement, the rights of the smallest, most defenseless among us is contentious. It’s so muddled with nuance and complexity that the libertarian community is divided on what rights children have and how they must be respected. Nobody said governance was an easy thing.
Christian leftist writer Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig is disgusted by the whole libertarian debate on children’s rights. She says the political philosophy has a history of “horrifying views on parenting.” She also claims libertarianism has a “historical inability to adequately explain how parents should relate to their children” and fails to breach the issue of whether “moral nations should require that parents feed, clothe, and shelter their children.” Since parents wouldn’t be parents without children, Bruenig’s attack is really focused on the claims children have on those who birthed them. She is absolutely wrong when it comes to libertarians and the question of children’s rights however. Like any political philosophy, the libertarian community is full of a robust debate on how children should be treated. Bruenig’s criticism, by missing this crucial discourse, is all air with no substance.
Bruenig begins her critique by bringing up Kentucky Senator Rand Paul’s comments on kids and vaccines. When pushed by CNBC host Kelly Evans on if government should mandate vaccinations of kids, Paul stated unequivocally, “the state doesn’t own your children, parents own the children.”
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Source: http://silveristhenew.com/2015/02/16/elizabeth-stoker-bruenig-fails-to-take-down-libertarianism-over-childrens-rights/
