“And they should be allowed to form completely voluntary communities of icky people that enforce icky cultural norms and an insular society promoting ickiness, just like everyone else”—the child problem again. If a non-icky child is born to such a community, there may be little possibility to avoid it. Say, conservative parents are only going to subsidise their child’s law school if it is the one they condone—the one with those rules—and the child is gay (or generally disagreeing with their agenda, but I believe the gay situation is more obvious because that seems to be inborn).
I mean I think the obvious answer is that an adult isn’t universally entitled to their parents subsidizing their law school tuition. The actual concern is that people can brainwash their kids from a very early age, so they don’t see the choices they actually have as legitimate, but I think that’s a nearly intractable problem in any system. You could fix it, but only with absurd levels of tyranny.
“And they should be allowed to form completely voluntary communities of icky people that enforce icky cultural norms and an insular society promoting ickiness, just like everyone else”—the child problem again. If a non-icky child is born to such a community, there may be little possibility to avoid it. Say, conservative parents are only going to subsidise their child’s law school if it is the one they condone—the one with those rules—and the child is gay (or generally disagreeing with their agenda, but I believe the gay situation is more obvious because that seems to be inborn).
I mean I think the obvious answer is that an adult isn’t universally entitled to their parents subsidizing their law school tuition. The actual concern is that people can brainwash their kids from a very early age, so they don’t see the choices they actually have as legitimate, but I think that’s a nearly intractable problem in any system. You could fix it, but only with absurd levels of tyranny.