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Entry: The Wrongs of "Rights" Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_wrongs_of_rights#7588 Post contents: @Keith Do not descend to name calling because I point to a problem with any utopian scheme; how to make sure that it perpetuates itself through the generations. Adults can make whatever choices they wish about themselves, but should they have the right to make them for their children? Children, being dependnet and of limited understanding they have to be under adult authority. But is there a way to guarantee that those adults will not abuse heir authority. Like it or not the only thing that stops anyone from abusing his or her authority is a higher authority with the power to punish. Sure, all through the ages children have grown up, even under conditions that would horrify us, but then human beings have survived and made a life of sort even under the most inhumane and brutal regimes. Surely to say lamely that "they managed to grow up" is not the best description of an utopia, is it? Plese tell me what mechanisms, if any are in your scheme to prevent and punish child abuse. What denies the right of parens to mutilate their daughters genitally so that they do not become sexually promiscuous when they grow up? What tells parents, your children are not your posession, to do as you see fit? Plese explain how would you solve that problem, or at least acknowledge that it is a problem. Sent at: 2008 09 06