Chapter 7: Home Schooling for Liberty

If we are a father or mother, Mark Steyn sounds more convincing than John Galt. Offspring are our time machines, extending the reach of our values into centuries we will not live to see. Unless an outside agency initiates force to change the natural order of things, children normally carry forward the passions of their parents. “make sure quotation marks are the same style as rest of book. Normal teenage rebellion” is such a terrifying anomaly in the history of mankind, that Old Testament law considered it to be a capital offence.

When the Prussian government implemented the first truancy laws in the early 1800s, they had to march weeping kids away from their families at bayonet point. This definitely violates the zero aggression principle. Imagine a commodity of so little value that we can’t even give it away; recipients must be forced to partake. And why the application of force? Because the State needs its docile taxpayers and cannon fodder.