An anonymous commenter on the Keene Sentinel site has asked questions, and I will answer them (quoted exactly as they were written) here so they aren’t lost behind the Sentinel’s paywall after a week:
1. are you advocating 12 and 13 year olds drop out of school and self educate?
No, I’m advocating they visit SchoolSucksProject.com and listen to the podcast there.
2, If freedom of life choices and self ownership is the foundation of your ideology when does a person start to make these choices for themeselve?
Consensual interaction between humans and nonaggression is the foundation for me. Of course freedom to choose is also very important. I think people are ready to choose when they are ready. There is no set age.
3. What do you believe the age of sexual consent should be legaly?(Ian please)
I don’t believe in the violent monopoly fantasy of the state, so I can’t answer what should be “legal” as I do not wish to impose my beliefs on others. I think people should be free to make mistakes sexually and that putting consenting people in jail cells and calling them “sex offenders” for the rest of their lives does not help people who make poor choices. I believe ostracism is the proper way to handle people who are behaving in ways you find distasteful. I’m tired of seeing teens sent to jail and given criminal records for consensually experimenting and photographing themselves. Molestation and rape are abhorrent to me, as they do not involve consent.
4. Are you video taping these children and putting it on the web as is per your custom with most of your other actions?
It is common for news organizations to record and playback footage of young people in public. This is not what I am doing and is not a goal, but if I want to record in public, there is always the chance that young people could be captured on video. It’s also possible they could be interviewed. Again, I’m not doing these things, but I don’t oppose them being done.
5. Do you consider it “harming” some one if you approach their child without thier consent to influnce them counter to how their family values are structured?
I don’t consider conversation harmful. If you consider certain ideas to be dangerous it is your job to prevent your child from coming across them or else just help them thoroughly understand why your ideas are the best. Surely if your ideas are so good, they will easily hold up to our horrible, dangerous message of peace and consensual interaction between human beings.
