Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!mmt From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.philosophy Subject: Re: Libertarianism Message-ID: <1304@dciem.UUCP> Date: Sun, 23-Dec-84 17:28:20 EST Article-I.D.: dciem.1304 Posted: Sun Dec 23 17:28:20 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Dec-84 20:14:36 EST References: <395@ptsfa.UUCP> <12@ucbcad.UUCP>Reply-To: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Distribution: net Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 21 Summary: >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? -- Martin Taylor {allegra,linus,ihnp4,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt {uw-beaver,qucis,watmath}!utcsrgv!dciem!mmt