2006-11-13

mindstalk: (CrashMouse)
One proposed basis for doling out rights to science fictional entities is "if they can ask for rights, grant them". To be applied to human clones, uplifted lab animals, AIs, and aliens. Sound sensible?

What if we applied it to children? True, young humans often aren't that capable, but then they may usually have a sense of their own weakness and dependence. But when they can strike out on their own, or when doing so seems less risky than staying with abusive guardians or an uncaring social worker system, is there a good case, principled or empirical, for keeping them from doing so?

My first exposure to such ideas was from radical libertarian L. Neil Smith, but later in John Holt's book Escape from Childhood, first book of the Youth rights movement, which latter has organizations such as ASFAR and NYAR.

A short essay by Holt on treating children courteously.

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