@Setanta,
Setanta wrote:Oh, this is such self-serving tripe.
Do you campaign aganist laws which prohibit people under 18
from signing financially binding contracts?
Do you campaign to lower the voting age below 18?
(If so, what arbitrary age would you choose?)
Do you campaign to allow people under the age of 18
to join the military without parental consent?
(If so, what abritrary age would you choose?)
Society reoutine sets limits on the behavior of children,
and the behavior of adults toward children. Why are you making a
special case in sexual matters, with that silly libertarian flag waving?
These questions were not directed to me,
but I 'm gonna address them anyway, for the record
:
"Campaign" is too strong a word,
but I have advocated to adults and to kids
that every citizen to whom the law applies
has a
Natural Right to vote on the people who enact those laws.
While standing in line at the polls to vote maybe 4 years ago,
I commented to a 12 year old boy there waiting with his mother,
that he coud vote too, if it were up to me. I deem it indecent
that kids r screwn out of their Natural Right to vote.
I was very
resentful of that, when I was a kid.
I worked in political campaigns, and I was
repeatedly ASTONISHED
at the depth of
ignorance in adult voters with whom I argued.
I'd not recognize any age-based legal distinctions
in commercial transactions; no discrimination,
except by the will of the parties themselves.
The
Individual citizen shud be progressively
AGGRANDIZED in his liberty,
by progressively
degrading, curtailing,
strangling,
truncating, contracting & reducing the power
of the collective and its henchman: government.
I propose that each 4th of July we take a while
for sober contemplation on how this can effectively be accomplished.
David
