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Originally Posted by Ibram
The government is your servant no more than your parents are. The government is that which tells you what to do.
And why should your being or not being a minor matter? Why do we deem it appropriate to deny a huge percentage of our people rights?
or do human rights only apply conditionally... to those old enough to deserve them?
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The valid role and scope of governmental power is only to carry out what rights we have as individuals but have granted to government. Government may never tell us what to do unless our actions violate the person, rights, or property of non-consenting others. The valid role and scope of parental powers is to make each and every single decision regarding the lives and safety of their children from birth until the moment they move out on their own.