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.
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.