Quote Originally Posted by Tellos Athenaios View Post
Two issues: children are not property, and what if either care or safe keeping is lacking? See this earlier post of mine in the thread:



What in particular makes the decision to deny your children vaccination fundamentally different from the decision to rent them out as cheap labour? Or to deny them their education?

From a strict individual's property rights point of view, both cases are quite equivalent: your property, your decision to make. Except, of course that we don't accept your decision in some cases and take matters out of your hands (child labour). Why then, should we not do the same with vaccination given what we know namely that to deny vaccination is tantamount to abusing your positing as a parent and failing in your duty of care?
Ownership is just the terminology. Like self ownership. You cannot sell your self or your children into slavery any more but it is still deemed as ownership. It is just a part of parental rights.

Rights are very incontinent things. They don’t allow us to tell others how they should behave or to see the sense of our arguments. We either trust people to do what they believe is best or we remove rights and make it a function of the state.

The state will never object to your surrendering your rights unless they accrue some financial obligation in the transaction. They are most happy to tell you what to do with your self and your children, just not pay for the undesired outcome.