WiresNPipes Posted April 24, 2013 Posted April 24, 2013 The market developed the credit score for assessing financial trustworthiness. Could it likewise assign degree of accountability for actions and harshness of penalties, and bestow permissions/priviledges? Two edged sword - you'd want to score high to buy guns, booze, and a house but low to get a break when you mess up. Maybe your personhood/competency sevel would be public, and it may well be a tool for matching couples and employment. When children come of age, they demonstrate competence and stability, as vouched for by references on say a job application. Parties in a free society will continue to grade one another (as we partially do now, and will increasingly henceforth) in credit and other interactions, such as past violations, work and socializing. While the state likes dependency and would perpetuate childhood well into middle age, I suspect a free society would encourage responsibility. The state arbitrarily sets an age or body maturity measure whence a child becomes an adult - in privileges and punishment, and dictate terms for parent and child, erring towards restricting, wouldn't free people assess one another individually, rejoicing when children test their wings? In "Whatever Happened to Justice" (non-statist homeschool textbook), Richard Maybury explains that early common law judges considered partial responsibility of adulthood in cases involving youths, and it worked well on an individual basis. Please discuss whether a free society might apply the same method of determining economic privilege as it would for behavioral freedom and accountability for tort. Consider life cycle competency and health. As one aged, should they be trusted less with high speed transport? Charged more to drive? DROs are preventative, but would they not charge appropriately? Is it lunacy to imagine a household where parent's aren't bound to raise the child to some point at which the child assumes all responsibility, and where the child isn't bound to the parent, but instead imagine the household where the child's personhood gradually is yielded from parent to the growing child? Once the child is eager to leave, as with their baby steps, I want to encourage them with cheer. Doesn't restraint harm them? Once they emancipate, must the parent remain ever theirs? Might a free world encourage parents to remain involved and assist their children, even into mid-life? And as the child is very much a product of the parent, should the parent ever be entirely absolved of havoc an abused grown child wreaks? I'm a Rothbardian, and honestly I thought you were too. I should read more to learn the subtle differences. I know you each (among others) danced around this issue but not yet to my satisfaction. You have a wonderful family, and I can't imagine izzy ever wanting to leave upset with her folks, nor you ever cutting her off. But I'm a pastor's son and married a religious girl and fathered five children as a matter of course, hiding my atheism to keep in company of my very fundamental society. My ex was overbearing and hollered a lot. As husband, I was the worker bee. The children hated her, and I didn't earn much favor leaving them all with her five years back. Now they hug me and visit gayly, and I'll help them if they 1. ask, 2. need, and 3. try, but though closing, we're distant. They heard the school/state promise unending attention and plant suspicion of us (parents') good will. The ex is a fair mom now, but they put her through hell and mellowed her . Two of my older sisters emancipated early to escape the church pressure, and my eldest did and it looks like the next will too. All this just to say that I have seen and experienced too much familial slavery and I can only hope that one day family fetters can be voluntarily shed, by either child or parent. As for parents leaving, ostracism checks behavior, and who would date an abandoner? A parent raised peacefully would have to be on the brink of suicide to abandon a child in a free society. Second post. I'm not so bright, but I do sooo love this community. I swell with pride to consider myself a meager sponser . Plenty of truth discovered, plenty more to find. Exhilirating! Fairly twitching for the documentary.
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