Just wanted to ask you guys a question.What would you do about child prostration in a ancap state? Would you just let it happen if the children agreed to it, or what just wondering since I don't know much on ancapism.

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Anonymous 10/27/14 (Mon) 00:53:17 23dbed No.121

Just wanted to ask you guys a question.

What would you do about child prostration in a ancap state? Would you just let it happen if the children agreed to it, or what just wondering since I don't know much on ancapism.

Anonymous 10/27/14 (Mon) 01:39:08 506664 No.122

>>121
Children have all the rights adults do, (though they're generally not as good at exercising them), and it's nobody's place to protect people from themselves. So as far as I can tell, as long as the child wants to, there's no legitimate cause to stop them.
That said, many persons and firms would likely refuse to do business with child prostitutes and their customers, so there's a certain element of social enforcement involved.
As distasteful as we find it, it's not our place to decide what consenting persons do with their own bodies. We can only decide with whom we choose to associate.

Anonymous 10/27/14 (Mon) 08:29:12 d6e0de No.126

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>>121

Children are the responsibility of their parents. If for some reason the parents are unable to take responsibility for them then I would imagine the market would find demand for parentless children through adoption services or even apprenticeship/boarding/schooling through businesses who are in need of skilled laborers as they enter pubescence and become adults.

I imagine in ancapistan that the family unit will play an important role, not necessarily in a traditional sense as we know, but that blood related or not children will find adults they trust to find direction from. For example, in Polynesian culture it is not unusual for aunts and uncles to adopt nieces or nephews when their biological parents are unable to care for them. Even neighbors adopt neighborhood kids if they do not have a strong family unit.

I also imagine an entire service industry of helping children find stewardship playing an important role in child development. Remember, the focus in this sense is not society as a whole, but on the individual learning how to succeed.

>>122

While children have a right to their life as it is inherent to them as human beings, it is naive to assume they have the same freedoms as adults do to live as they please. Children need definitive boundaries and positive direction in order to learn and grow so that they may live up to their potential as adults, anyone who has ever worked with children (or with adults who lacked this structure as children) knows what I mean.

Children are very emotional, self-interested and inexperienced. They don't have common sense out of the womb, that sense and reason must be instilled into them by positive external stimulation of their little brains. If children were allowed the same freedom that adults have, most of them would probably die before adulthood. While I'm not saying it is impossible for a child to succeed by only figuring things out on their own, it is more ideal for children to have a constant mentor throughout their pre-pubescence and even more-so much into their young adult lives.

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Anonymous 10/27/14 (Mon) 15:28:10 506664 No.128

>>126
You're speaking to a former child educator. I worked with children as young as three and as old as sixteen. My experience was that the younger children were inherently more rational, since the older children had been taught that "because I said so" was an acceptable answer. The older kids expected answers to be handed to them, while the younger kids were better at figuring things out. Allowing a child to exercise freedom is not the same as letting them play in traffic. Interfering when someone is unaware of danger is not restricting their freedom. It is entirely possible to instruct a child with regards to the dangers of a situation without restricting their freedom; you just have to maintain a healthy relationship with them and nurture their natural sense of reason.

Children are people, just like you and I. They have all the same inherent rights that you and I do, but as I said, they are not as good at exercising them. They don't have the experience and physical prowess necessary to actualize their will, which is what the parents are for. As thinking, choosing beings, they possess all the properties which imbue people with rights, and thus they have all the rights that adults do.

Anonymous 10/28/14 (Tue) 04:16:40 d6e0de No.133

>Allowing a child to exercise freedom is not the same as letting them play in traffic. Interfering when someone is unaware of danger is not restricting their freedom. It is entirely possible to instruct a child with regards to the dangers of a situation without restricting their freedom; you just have to maintain a healthy relationship with them and nurture their natural sense of reason.

Your previous point makes more sense worded this way and I agree with you fully.

Anonymous 11/20/14 (Thu) 22:21:26 68ca3c No.177

>>128
I feel the same way. I think people give children too little credit. People think children can't understand anything and so they don't even try

Anonymous 01/13/15 (Tue) 05:48:53 799eee No.280

You would first have to decide if the people were mentally mature enough to make the decision (the word "child" makes this seem unlikely), or if they were being exploited by pimps, etc. for profit under the threat of violence.

Not sure what a free society would decide to do in any given case, but it is worth noting that the current system (overworked "justice"/welfare/social worker system) plus financial incentives for women to have children that they often cannot successfully raise - is almost certainly a worse system that any that an an-cap system would come up with, all things considered.