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Entry: Adolescence: A Heresy Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_case_against_adolesence#10742 Post contents: <i>The false assumption behind Epstein’s argument flows from the libertarian ideology of rights: that individuals, not families, are the basic unit of society.</i> Without individuals, you have neither families, nor society. And anyone who doesn't think our rights are individual rather than collective should go back and read The Declaration of Independence. If all law were abolished tomorrow, individuals would still participate in marriage, family, religion, and society. <i>But no one believed teenagers or children had free-floating "rights."</i> Makes no difference. The fact remains that "they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable <i>rights</i>" (empasis mine, baby). You can disagree with the author's stance on abortion, but the fact remains that young adults either have rights or they do not, just as the unborn either have rights or they do not. If a yound adult wants to view those rights and his very life as free-floating, that is his choice, and from it he will learn, however painful. It is not up to the budybodies who pass socialist laws, nor the busybodies posting at this site. It is up to the individual. Sent at: 2008 12 01