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[–] JohnGaltApproves 1 point 2 points (+3|-1) ago 

He’d be a lot more bearable if he’d stop openly talking about legalizing drugs and defending theoretical scenarios for child prostitution in the third world.

[–] MiMx ago 

Libertarians do not believe in child prostitution. To obtain freedom you still have to be 18 years of age, or age of consent by state.

[–] JohnGaltApproves 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

You might want to read Walter Block on the topic before you start arguing that libertarians are a monolithic block of group think. He argues that under a certain developmental age, such as during pre-pubescence, child prostitution is wrong, but also offers the concession that if it’s a choice between that and “starvation,” child prostitution is, for the child, a viable, albeit undesirable, option.

My point wasn’t about libertarian open endorsement of child prostitution in sum. Instead I was joking that libertarians often lack the couth to know what not to bring up over Thanksgiving Dinner. For example, when Gramma, the Reaganite conservative, talks about Epstein’s Lolita Express, the autist libertarian, rather than just agreeing it’s horrible, turns his attention to discussing theoretical cases where child prostitution may be a last resort for survival, as Block has done from an academic perspective.