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Comment author: Vaniver 26 October 2014 09:52:58PM 2 points [-]

It seems cleaner to characterize that as "not helping." Preventing anyone else from feeding their child seems like hurting.

As a general comment, libertarian policies work better for adults than they do for children, because they assume a level of individual responsibility that seems unreasonable to expect of, say, infants. It's not clear to me how fatal a flaw that is for it as a policy-generating mechanism.