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Slavery is a lack of Liberty.
Slavery is not just being locked in a cage.
Slavery is being coerced to perform according to some 'authority'.
Students are thus enslaved in school.
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Lol, so your essentially saying society needs forced education to enforce libertarian ideals, and then you go on to say that compulsory education is slavery? Make a choice man.
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No, !
Without some kind of mechanism any population will eventually abandon whatever current ideals.
Governments use forced education.
Libertarians have this problem they ignore.
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So either you can accept ideals will change over time, or you can force education. What do you propose is better?
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Coerced education is Harm - this is unacceptable.
Ideals will always change - that is inevitable evolution.
What is not acceptable is people evolving to Harm each other.
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How do you plan to stop, with certainty that evolution without forced education?
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Certainty is a very tough target.
Persuading people to quit wasting life+resources Harming others and begin using those resources for Learning may be good enough for evolution now.
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Unless of course your saying we don't have libertarian ideals, and thus we don't force education. I'm waiting to hear your alternative. I'll be disappointed if it's socialism.
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Self-governance.
(Lifelong) Learning is the only real choice.
Anything else requires coercion, which is Harm.
Socialism is a word camouflaging confiscation and slavery.
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And that's incompatible with libertarian ideals how?
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One of the best libertarian ideas is that coerced schooling is evil.
Libertarians do not replace it with anything.
The One Law replaces this with ''You need to learn. Everything."
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I don't know what libertarians you talk to, but generally that is what we replace it with.
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Libertarians I have dealt with still regard law as some kind of kitchen recipe book you can just keep adding pages to and that Harm is just an uncomfortable consequence of whatever...
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I don't know any libertarians that are content with the public being dumb and refusing to teach themselves.