From: Steve Davies (Steve365@btinternet.com)
Date: Sat Jul 12 2003 - 04:26:04 MDT
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> hal@finney.org (Hal Finney) writes:
>>Deutsch also links to an organization, Taking Children Seriously,
>>http://www.eeng.dcu.ie/~tcs/, dedicated to the principle that "it is
>>possible and desirable to bring up children entirely without doing things
>>to them against their will, or making them do things against their will,
>>and that they are entitled to the same rights, respect and control over
>>their lives as adults."
>
> I found this site quite interesting. I was surprised at the degree to
>which they are able to use a Popperian approach to conclude that popular
>dogmas about children are cruel.
The person behind this organisation (Sarah Fitz-Claridge) has a link to her
own personal website from the TCS site. She's got quite a lot about
extropianism (cryonics etc), or did the last time I looked which wasn't that
long ago. She and Frances Kendall (a South African libertarian) are the
only people who have really tried to think about a libertarian approach to
children and child-rearing in recent times. You'll notice the strong
influence, besides Popper, of Godwin. He's an interesting philosopher who
doesn't get a lot of coverage these days - he's best known as Shelley's
father-in-law!
Steve Davies
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