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Coercing children is not compulsory

The social, educational, economic and political oppression of children is not compulsory

Natural consequences are neither compulsory nor natural

The incoherent idea that to avoid utopianism you need to make changes to the coercive regime piecemeal

Punishing children is not compulsory

Viewing children through the lens of paternalism is not compulsory

To call something compulsory a ‘right’ is perverse

Could children in principle be safe with different laws?

Children being free control their own lives

He who sleeps with dogs wakes up with fleas

A child’s natural desire for your attention is not ‘exploitation’

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