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To: Gib Bogle who wrote (71928)	1/3/2010 7:52:18 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 74559

Gib, after a few days, I'm going to leave your question in the too-hard basket. Certainly in some form, but it's not just an age issue. <OK, it's an extreme example, but it illustrates the general point that society - probably any society that we'd call civilized - accepts the idea of protection for the weak, the stupid, the vulnerable. Do you accept this idea in any form?> When I was 20, I worked at Auckland Sheltered Workshops [not as an inmate]. I was a driver and supervisor. I would not have taken kindly to somebody trying to sell them much of anything though I don't recall any particular rules. They were adults but lacked the mental horsepower to cope with regular life. But I don't object to people selling things to regular self-determining people. Knowingly doing harm to ignorant people amounts to fraud and such crimes are not in my free-market mantra of allowed activity. I have had 4 children and now a couple of grand-children. My aim is to help them be fully autonomous as soon as they feel capable. I have been complimented by them so I guess I did a reasonable job. There needs to be protection of children from other people, but they also should be left to learn from an early age that they have to develop an intense sense of self-preservation. That means taking responsibility for their decisions. They seem to get by with no government rules for all the poisonous plants we live among. Mqurice

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