On 02-Sep-06, at 10:14 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
My point was that this [seems to me like it] is all about the state
bearing the costs of
said kids, both through the overwhelming majority of them being
raied by parents on
teh dole, as well as the cost of incarcerating them later.
Classic example of one form of coercive state intervention (dole,
i.e. stolen funds
redistributed to the least worthy) causing unintended consequences,
then being
used to justify further state coercion, in just the kind of
inevitable downward spiral
towards totalitarianism described by von Mises decades ago (and of
which there
are plenty more examples).
It seems to me that the generalization (irrespective of its truth
or falsity) is being made
about the kids, not the parents.
Doesn't seem so from the article, which talks about "plans for state
intervention to
prevent babies born into high-risk families becoming problem
teenagers". i.e. it's
the families that are supposedly high-risk, not the kids, who are
unborn.
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