RE: Tranquility

From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Tue Jul 08 2003 - 19:31:26 MDT

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    Rafal writes

    > ### Persons who have been wronged may apply force. Their agents may apply
    > force on their behalf. I would be willing to act on behalf of humans who
    > have been harmed, e.g. by wrongful imprisonment inflicted on them by persons
    > who produced these human's DNA and contributed nutrition to their fetal
    > growth (and mistakenly assume that having performed these actions entitles
    > them to ownership of the humans in question).

    In other words, you would be willing to act on behalf of children (among
    others) who have been wrongfully imprisoned by their parents. What
    constitutes imprisonment, in your view?

    > Whether I would choose to use a private protection agency or a monopolist
    > provider of security services, the state, is not relevant to the argument.
    > It is also irrelevant what kind of labels you are using to describe the
    > humans involved - whether you call some "children", or "parents" - the only
    > thing that matters is who was harmed and how to rectify it.

    Yes, I understand. I think. As you yourself have said that you are
    willing to act on behalf of children who have been wronged, would you
    mind if I put your name on my web site as a resource for wronged ten
    year olds? (It is a fact that many parents make incorrect decisions
    regarding the freedoms of their ten year olds.)

    I'm sure that however generous you may be with your own time, you
    would prefer the establishment of a more objective agency, perhaps
    international in scope. Quite a number of teenagers have been
    denied all the freedoms we customarily enjoy, among them freedom
    of association, free movement, and freedom of speech (the latter
    called, prejudicially, "mouthing off" by their parents). Do you
    envision a web site where the children can take their complaints,
    and a ruling board that would decide whether intervention against
    the parents will be undertaken?

    Thanks,
    Lee



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