Due process
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Child labour laws
When incest laws were first passed and enforced in the US some objected.
Those who truly object had to move to one of the places where incest is still legal, like Russia.
Americans today, with a few exceptions, accept and abide by those laws.
The same set of steps and conditions would apply when talking about child labour laws.
So even if you imagine there is no harm in offering up your children on Craigslist as labourers, it is illegal.
It is simply a fact of law. The law allows that children can be actors or they can have paper routes.
Common law is for the most part common sense, it evolves.
There are all sorts of exceptions to all sorts of laws and those exceptions make sense.
And no one using common sense would argue against laws that are obviously sensible.
Libertarians understand that individual rights and human freedom are the most important principles.
Those who refuse to extend that protection to others are not Libertarians.
Libertarianism isn't a religion, it isn't a gun club, it isn't about your rights, it is about the rights of others.
Others is the correct term as well, "others" implies that which you do not include in your idea of us.
At the very heart of it is simplicity itself, your rights are the rights of others.
TimF arguing it is OK to deny service to gay people is arguing against your rights, the rights of others.
It is obvious to almost anyone when the rights of others are being abrogated.
If there is an other who is denied something, then you are denied, you rights are denied, your rights suffer.
Protecting the rights of others is the most important action we can undertake.
Laws against teaching your children hatred, protect your children's rights, the rights of others. |
