More On The Ills Of The Socialist State

Interesting perspective.

Separation of Family and State
By Arnold Kling

"The rioters are generally 12 to 25 years old, and roughly half of those
arrested are under 18...Traditional parental control has disappeared and many
Muslim families are headed by a single parent. Elders, imams and social workers
have lost control. Paradoxically, the youths themselves are often the providers
of local social rules, based on aggressive manhood, control of the streets,
defense of a territory.

...Americans, for their part, should take
little pleasure in France's agony -- the struggle to integrate an angry
underclass is one shared across the Western world." -- Olivier
Roy

One way to describe libertarianism is that we believe in
the separation of family and state as strongly as the American Civil Liberties
Union believes in the separation of church and state. In contrast, both the Left
and the Right view government as a substitute parent. As pointed out by George
Lakoff in Moral Politics,
the Left wants government to be a nurturant parent and the Right wants
government to be a strict parent.

Libertarianism does not want the
government to act as a parent. What I want is for government to ensure that
property disputes are resolved peacefully, according to rules. The rules
themselves do not have to be perfect. They should reflect prevailing custom,
which in turn may evolve gradually over time. Read The Rest Of The
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