link to original reddit post by /u/relgrenSehT
I have been pondering abortion and the portion of “human-ness” that relies on self-sufficiency, versus species or other taxonomic traits such as age or (once upon a time) race.
Something that endlessly puzzles me is whether willful negligence of a demonstrably incapacitated human is (or ought to be) always a crime. It’s simple enough in theory to call abortion “self defense,” at least in the realm of plausible deniability. But then, what’s a child? Does a child have rights? Can a child own anything?
If a child’s right to life effectively indentures that child’s parent to said child, then who’s indentured to a mentally unstable homeless man?
The intellectual purity I ascribe to libertarianism falls apart in my head when dependents enter the scene.