From: Smigrodzki, Rafal (SmigrodzkiR@msx.upmc.edu)
Date: Thu May 02 2002 - 08:21:34 MDT
From: Lee Corbin [mailto:lcorbin@tsoft.com]
wrote:
Just what is "child abuse", anyway?
For some, it's spanking. For others, it's making children
work.
For others, it's lending out the children for sexual
gratification.
These may all be appalling, but they're rare, and again, we
lose
far more by failing to foster an atmosphere of liberty than
we do
by writing meddling laws.
### I like to use the survival of innocent humans as the
ultimate measure of ethical validity of any action. I case you view it as an
important value as well, tell me what exactly what do we lose (in terms of
innocent human lives) by allowing armed men we hire (=cops) to bust
somebody's door and save a child from an "appalling" fate? The atmosphere of
liberty will not help you if you are an 8 year old girl being raped by her
father. And, how rare do you think are cases of children being beaten until
their bones are broken? What precisely do you know about the rarity of the
shaken baby syndrome?
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happiness? Will you decide what constitutes "an abusive
way" by
majority rule?
### Yes, if need be. Anything to save innocent humans.
Rafal
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