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The child would be entitled to his freedom from his birth, if he were at that time capable of taking reasonable care of himself.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “The child would be entitled to his freedom from his birth, if he were at that time capable of taking reasonable care of…”
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Spooner posits that a child should be free if capable of self-care from birth.
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On the contrary, they acknowledge themselves robbers, murderers, and villains, pure and simple.
When they have once taken our money, they have the decency to get out of our sight as soon as possible; they do not persist in following us, and robbing us, again and again, so long as we produce anything that they can take from us.
They do not attempt to deceive us, or mislead us, or reconcile us to their doings, by any such pretences, impostures, or insults as these.
In short, they acknowledge themselves hostes humani generis: enemies of the human race.