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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.philosophy
Subject: Re: Libertarianism
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Date: Sun, 23-Dec-84 17:28:20 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 23 17:28:20 1984
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>Yes, parents would be free to neglect their children's education,
>just like it is now.  Your solution to this problem is to use force
>to coerce children into schools.  The solution proposed by
>libertarians is to realize that individuals do and should have the
>ultimate responsibility to act in their own interest, and if this
>includes not going to school (or not sending your children to
>school) then it is nobody else's business.

Ah...The paradoxes of libertarianism.  It is in MY best interest that
your kids get a good education. I "do and should have the responsibility
to act in [my] best interest," and therefore I have the right to coerce
your children into school, No?

I suspect you would answer, "no", but that wouldn't resolve the paradox,
would it?
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Martin Taylor
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