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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: The Duality of Bitcoin
by
Olomana
on 17/07/2011, 21:21:52 UTC
Well what about parents like that mother who posted her 13 year old daughter's virginity for sale on craigslist with her consent?

Libertarianism is a model, an over-simplification.  It assumes that one can tell the difference between a competent, consenting adult and someone who is not a competent, consenting adult.  In the real world, there is no such abrupt transition.  This means, for example, that there can be no coherent libertarian theory of children's rights.  This doesn't mean that libertarianism is useless; it's still a good model for voluntary transactions between competent adults.  It just means that if you try to apply libertarianism outside its natural domain, the model breaks down.