Regarding the "children have potential" argument - what about the kids with little chance of significant contribution, like those born with severe mental disabilities?
This should be about children's rights, not expected futures. Children have enough to deal with without feeling indebted to society for existing.
Children are humans. They are not different. And they are not in dept to anyone , and none owes them nothing.
That means we should help all children but not forced to.
I generally agree. The area where I think we may differ is whether or not taking away the child's right to move freely by privatizing land justifies reimbursement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen's_dividendYou guys sensationalize "X is theft, Y is SLAVERY" all the time, and then justify stealing from every child born too late to claim scarce resources.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_is_theft!
So yeah, we all do owe something to children. They are entitled to their share of this planet we all got for free.