This is a ridiculous analogy. Letting adults have the most say over their own lives is completely different than raising a child.
we would elect people making honest attempts to do good
Again, the problem is no one agrees on who is 'doing good'.
That's not the same as electing people who are obviously corrupt
Most of the time that is all that is running! lol
Come on with the rape stuff. I didn't say I was an anarchist. I want very limited government. "That government is best which governs least."
Society needs protection just as small children do, it's not a ridiculous analogy.
That government is best which governs least.
The government that governs least is a government that does nothing, equal to no government. You should not regurgitate empty propaganda like this. A good government needs to do almost all the things current governments do, maybe more, it just needs to do them competently and efficiently or not be corrupt.
Democracy is often touted as the least worst solution to deciding who is doing good, and avoiding corrupt people in power. Unfortunately it is failing miserably.
Unfortunately it is failing miserably.
Because it is trying to do too much. It is too big and failing at the basics. It has lost sight of its mission.
This is why we should all be for more states rights and less federal government. You would be free to move to a state which has all the programs you want. That state would have more money to implement them because it wouldn't be shipping as much money off to Washington.
Yes, parenting is hideously complicated and my wife and I have different opinions on how to do it. Therefore let's defer to a libertarian approach and let children wander free in the world, and free of our biased conceptions of what parenting should be.
There is a world of difference between an honest attempt at something complex, and no attempt at all, or an attempt at doing the opposite. If people were not morons, we would elect people making honest attempts to do good, and perhaps change our minds occasionally. That's not the same as electing people who are obviously corrupt, or totally doing away with government: Looking the other way while letting bad people run free to rape your neighbours seems lazy and unwise, whether you do the raping or not, at some point you'll get what's going around.