Timeline for Corporal Punishment
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| Jan 18, 2018 at 17:51 | comment | added | Geoffrey Thomas♦ | @ kbelder 1. Thanks for this comment. I'm inclined to reply that the possession of rights does not depend on the status of full autonomy. Certain rights do hold only between fully autonomous agents, e.g. contractual rights. But I don't see how a child would lack the right to be protected from violence just because it was not a fully autonomous agent. The most that would follow from a child's lack of full autonomy would be a right by certain adults to constrain or control its behaviour. Not a right to inflict violence on it. That's my take. Is yours still different ? | |
| Jan 18, 2018 at 17:42 | comment | added | Ask About Monica | Although Rand didn't write a lot about child-rearing, and I don't know if she ever expressed an opinion on corporal punishment, she did acknowledge that parents necessarily need to 'infringe' their children's rights in many ways, until they mature. They aren't born with full autonomy. Parents have control over their children's speech, who they associate with, etc., and that's not necessarily a flaw in the law. It's by design. | |
| Jan 18, 2018 at 13:28 | history | answered | Geoffrey Thomas♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |