I think Bonneau's statement that children are bound by whatever 
agreements their parents happen to make, and that parents have the 
right to sell their children into lifelong slavery pretty much reveals 
what his mindset is. A parent is the steward of their child, not the 
owner, and as such, there are a large number of decisions they do not 
have the right to make on that child's behalf, any more than a banker I 
entrust with my money has the right to go and spend it all on beer, and 
refuse to compensate me.

His attempts to equate a tyrannical political system with a free one, 
because there are people who dislike either, is nonsense. The point of 
creating a free political system is much like creating a fair justice 
system, it is an attempt to create a system that is morally correct. In 
the case of a justice system, regardless of whether the judge finds for 
the plaintiff or the defendant, the other party is not going to like 
it. But the fact that some people may, at times, not like the results 
of a just court system is no excuse for creating an unjust one. Most 
people in civilized parts of the world recognize the value of a court 
system that punishes the guilty and frees the innocent, even if we 
dislike it at times. Unfortunately most people have yet to form the 
same objectivity when it comes to their political system.

At any rate, when I go to whatever afterlife awaits me, I would much 
rather be judged as a 'libertine' than an enslaver of children. Bonneau 
claims to be a religious man, and based on his assertion that parents 
may do anything they like to their children, I am forming a rather 
strong opinion of who his particular god is. Google the term 'Moloch'.

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