Comments on: Objectivists on Positive Parental Obligations and Abortion http://libertarianstandard.com/2011/01/14/objectivists-on-positive-parental-obligations-and-abortion/ Property - Prosperity - Peace Mon, 20 May 2013 06:54:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Wirkman Virkkalahttp://libertarianstandard.com/2011/01/14/objectivists-on-positive-parental-obligations-and-abortion/#comment-2895 Wirkman Virkkala Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:05:27 +0000 http://libertarianstandard.com/?p=7787#comment-2895 Parental obligations to children are pretty obvious, and obviously necessary for society to exist. See Herbert Spencer’s “Law of Life” in his Principles of Ethics. Your explanation is one that I had not come across in as coherent a form as this. Usually libertarians try the contractual approach, as you say, which not only doesn’t work, but flies in the face of our experience of real contracts.

I will no doubt post on this at my site soon. Thanks for the clarity.

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