Comments on: Thinking about children, their safety and liberty http://www.samizdata.net/2013/02/thinking-about-children-their-safety-and-liberty/ A blog for people with a critically rational individualist perspective Fri, 24 May 2013 02:35:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Tedd http://www.samizdata.net/2013/02/thinking-about-children-their-safety-and-liberty/#comment-297437 Tedd Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:58:43 +0000 http://www.samizdata.net/?p=16852#comment-297437 It’s interesting to me that Mr. Green doesn’t seem to differential at all between promoting an understanding among parents about a genuine hazard they might not have fully appreciated (such as the vulnerability of children in motor-vehicle accidents) and invoking state power to punish parents who haven’t done anything even remotely wrong (such as charging a parent with an offense for letting their child walk home from the library). It’s all “child safety efforts” to him, apparently. His essay is a perfect example of the kind of muddled thinking and rhetorical obfuscation that the original essay criticizes.

]]> By: bloke in spain http://www.samizdata.net/2013/02/thinking-about-children-their-safety-and-liberty/#comment-297410 bloke in spain Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:41:09 +0000 http://www.samizdata.net/?p=16852#comment-297410 “It is not an overreach to call the police if you see a child alone in a locked car; on the contrary, you should certainly do it”

I can only presume Anthony Green has a good dentist.

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