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04/11/12(Wed)16:46 No.2558688
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a theory has been put forth by Professor Murray N. Rothbard. According
to Rothbard, a child becomes an adult not when he reaches some arbitrary
age limit, but rather when he does something to establish his ownership
and control over his own person: namely, when he leaves home, and
becomes able to support himself. This criteria, and only this criteria,
is free of all the objections to arbitrary age limits. Moreover, not
only is it consistent with the libertarian homesteading theory, it is
but an application of it. For by leaving home and becoming his own means
of support, the ex-child becomes an initiator, as the homesteader, and
owes his improved state to his own actions.
...
It should
be noted that this theory of the passage from childhood to adulthood is
the only one consistent with the problem of mental deficiency. According
to the specific arbitrary theories of adulthood, a mental incompetent,
aged 50, ought to be considered an adult, even though he manifestly is
not. These theories then come up with further arbitrary ad hoc
“exceptions” to fit the case. But the mental incompetent is no
embarrassment to the homesteading theory. Since he has not (been able
to) seized ownership and adulthood of and for himself, the mental
incompetent of whatever age is simply not an adult.
(Block, Defending the Undefendable pp 244 - 47)
>mfw most lolbertarians wouldn't be considered adults by this standard |
