The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses consent especially with respect to children and minors. When ought an ideal society start treating children as adults? Is consent itself a sound doctrine? Even though some anti-liberals and natural law advocates criticize the doctrine of consent, could a society function without it? It seems as if even in tyrannical societies or older ones, certain aspects of consent exist. Children and minors don’t have as many rights and are under the aegis of their parents or the state. Are children a kind of slave? Should children be granted more rights at a younger age? Why has modern society continuously raised the seeming age in which children are “full adult humans” and not merely dependents of a kind? Is this “slavery” by their parents/state/teachers a kind of “benevolent” slavery which is necessary?
