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Old 03-20-2012, 03:29 PM   #97
valo403
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Originally Posted by GP_Matt View Post
We currently allow parents to deny their children the right to life saving blood transfusions and vaccinations. Maybe the smoking should be lumped together with everything that parents do to harm their children and make them criminally responsible.

Alternatively, I wonder if a child could sue their parents for exposing them to cigarette smoke, denying vaccinations or blood transfusions or any number of other things.
You're conveniently forgetting to mention the basis for that, religion. How can you argue for liberty on one hand and then argue for impinging upon freedom of religion on the other? Could it be that things aren't that simple?
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