From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Fri May 03 2002 - 22:06:28 MDT
Eliezer writes
> You're ducking the question again.
Sorry; I got behind on my email again ;-)
> I am asking you now whether you consider "child abuse" to be the morally
> protected exercise of rights over private property or the morally abhorrent
> violation of rights of a fellow citizen - bearing in mind that, on this
> mailing list as opposed to less rational forums, it is perfectly possible to
> concede that something is morally abhorrent and yet carry the point that
> laws against it would do more harm than good. In the past, you've made it
> clear that, if you are a computer simulation, you would consider yourself to
> be the private property of the simulator. Do you consider children to be
> the private property of their parents?
We should move towards that, yes. I would favor children
attaining citizenship at some time approximately when the
child was establishing a role within the community of
citizens, and had a number of relationships with them.
Thus the moment of "official citizenship" might be
determined differently in different areas, such as
voting privileges are.
Lee
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