can’t own things (I can buy them, but if someone can legally take the object which is legal for me to possess without some special, explicitly-legally-defined reason to do so and prevent me from accessing the object for arbitrarily long periods of time I wouldn’t call it ownership)
seriously, even if I get a job on my own through connections I made on my own, people can just take away arbitrary objects I legally buy with that money, and it’s not like taxes because I can’t predict it in advance and I lose non-interchangable resources (I can’t decide that I would rather lose [amount of money equal to the cost of renting a computer for a few days] in place of [access to my computer with my files for a few days])
have no legal right to privacy beyond rather limited forms of confidentiality when talking to doctors/lawyers/certain religious leader types (if my parents want to copy my backup drive and have someone decrypt it for them, the only thing stopping them is software, I couldn’t file a police report)
have no real right to freedom of religion, people could punish me for refusing to attend religious services if they wanted to
have no right to view my own medical records, my parents can see the results of IQ and psych tests I spent an entire Saturday taking and I can’t
I am kind of slanted towards the view that parents have too much influence over minors. I would, however, gladly give up some of my earnings to be able to own property and have the right to privacy.
As a minor: considering that I:
can’t own things (I can buy them, but if someone can legally take the object which is legal for me to possess without some special, explicitly-legally-defined reason to do so and prevent me from accessing the object for arbitrarily long periods of time I wouldn’t call it ownership)
seriously, even if I get a job on my own through connections I made on my own, people can just take away arbitrary objects I legally buy with that money, and it’s not like taxes because I can’t predict it in advance and I lose non-interchangable resources (I can’t decide that I would rather lose [amount of money equal to the cost of renting a computer for a few days] in place of [access to my computer with my files for a few days])
have no legal right to privacy beyond rather limited forms of confidentiality when talking to doctors/lawyers/certain religious leader types (if my parents want to copy my backup drive and have someone decrypt it for them, the only thing stopping them is software, I couldn’t file a police report)
have no real right to freedom of religion, people could punish me for refusing to attend religious services if they wanted to
have no right to view my own medical records, my parents can see the results of IQ and psych tests I spent an entire Saturday taking and I can’t
I am kind of slanted towards the view that parents have too much influence over minors. I would, however, gladly give up some of my earnings to be able to own property and have the right to privacy.
Yes, I meant over adult children. I don’t think this has much impact on minors.