@Orakel @matrix >Disallowing those things benefits society at large how?
Do I seriously need to explain how not allowing children to be raped, tortured, or physically mutilated benefits society? It causes massive amounts of trauma, which inhibits them eventually becoming productive members of society. Abuse breeds abuse, and these children will likely grow up to become abusive, causing harm to society themselves. Beyond that, I'd consider the children themselves to be part of society, which makes harming them harm a part of society.
>Who will enforce your rules? How will they enforce them? Who will pay to have them enforced?
Depends on the society. Within our current societies, these things are already enforced by the police and government, and paid for by the tax payers. Most of these are things that are already illegal, so it's not like I need to theorize how it'd be handled - much of it is already being done.
>Do you want to live next door to someone who molests and beats their children? Sells them for sex? Rapes them for fun? They would be outcasts, unless they were around people like them. And that's how we should deal with people who harm their own children.
Of course not. But we're not an anarchist society, where outcasting people is the only option. I doubt most anarchist societies would even tolerate such a thing - it is, without a doubt, violating the child's right to bodily autonomy, which could be argued to make it justifiable for the other members of society to use force to protect the child - to physically remove the parents from the child's presence. If ancapistan's going to draw a line somewhere, I'm pretty sure child rape/torture/mutilation would fall on the "justifies use of force" side of the line.
>Is all of this behavior something that is learned or is it because of genetics?
I'd argue much of it is learned. Children who grow up in abusive homes tend to become abusive parents. People don't have a genetic predisposition towards genital mutilation, it's something society or religion tells them should be done - making it learned behavior.
