Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 13:09:34 -0800
From: Jonathan Kratter <jonathan-AT-kratter.com>
Subject: re: baby food


At 02:44 PM 2/1/99 EST, Brian J. Callahan wrote:

>This goes to one of the biggest problems in an anarchist society, IMHO, what 
>to do about parents hurting children.  First, some consensus on what 
>"hurting" might be has to be reached.   How do you do that?  A Mcdonald's 
>Happy Meal?  Scalding water?  What criteria do you use.  Should it apply to 
>other communities?

Perhaps I'm not a true anarchist, but won't the individual social groups
determine the standards for themselves, and the efficacy and rightness of
these standards be determined by the survival of the community?  A
community which cruelly abused its young would probably not survive very
long...
	Or would true anarchy have no one but the individual determining what is
right and wrong?  This seems impossible, because humans are by nature
social animals which will come together to form familes, clans, tribes,
villages, city-states, nations, and empires, and whenever humans come
together, some standards of behavior will be necessary to ensure the
cohesivness of the community.  I guess I'm more of an anarcho-tribalist
then, because my principal concern is that the rules are a product of the
consensus of a community where every individual is concerned with the
welfare of every other member of the community...

	For more information on tribalism, I highly recommend Daniel Quinn's
_Ishmael_, or at least visiting his website at www.ishmael.com.

	kindness and light,
	jonathan






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