In describing the libertarian utopia candidate, canvasback said "we will take care of those WHO CANNOT take care of themselves." I would presume that to include the "'litter of children' spawned by crack heads." But I would also presume that to mean that "when we take care of them, you lose your parental rights in any way shape or form until you can demonstrate a track record of sobriety and personal responsibility." An adult who digs their own hole SHOULD have to dig themselves out of it.....but not all poverty is self-inflicted. I don't think that society has a primary responsibility to rescue the children of the poor from the poverty of their parents, so long as their parents are able to work and better themselves. But when a parent's deliberate choices to pursue behaviors which lead to addiction then deprecate the health and safety of their children, I believe that there is a role for society in rectifying that, at least temporarily; and the BITTER TRUTH is that if we leave it to churches and the charitably minded to care for these children, MOST MEMBERS OF SOCIETY WON'T STEP UP AND DO IT. What then? At that point, government must have some role to play. I think the only real sticking points occur when we begin discussing the pros and cons of forced sterilization of chronic drug and alcohol abusers. The substances may be legal, but the rest of us should not have to carry the burden of the addict's addictions. There must be a balance between looking after the truly innocent children, and simply allowing the state to become the repository of the addict's continuing sexual irresponsibilities. On the other hand, can we enforce something like forced sterilization without individual adjudications? I'm not really claiming to know all the answers, but I am agreeing that no libertarian utopia can be a truly just place if we do not address these gray areas.......and yet I find myself increasingly libertarian.mr surveyor wrote:just curious, but in the Liberterian Utopia, who ends up caring for the "litter of children" spawned by the crack heads that made the wrong choices?
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