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Applies the idea that of private and political autonomy to teenagers and kid's improvement.

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For instance, someone will hardly be able to become autonomous if their development is hampered by, say, severe malnutrition and physical and emotional trauma. The third thing to note is how these personal interests properly connect with state involvement: In terms of John Stuart Mill’s Harm Principle, the state is generally taken to be justified in interfering with someone’s life if that person has harmed, or very likely will harm, someone else. ” Fourth (and this follows from the definition of harm), if parents and those having duties toward children allow these children to be substantially deprived of basic welfare interests, this allowance constitutes serious harm.

She has a more extensive causal efficacy than someone who lacks options, and a higher score on the practical dimension. By letting her determine what she does not do as well as what she does, her autonomy makes her more widely active and more practically efficacious. . Autonomy Autonomy 27 realizes agency even more so when it follows deliberation. . Then we have not just autonomy but deliberated autonomy: free choice from a wide range of options that reflects practical reasoning about them. This kind of autonomy realizes deliberative rationality, but in a more than intellectual way.

In the former case, the deprivation thus seems more wrong because it is so much more pernicious in its effects, even though the deprivation is equal, in absolute terms, in both cases. So children’s greater relative vulnerability—since they are delicately passing through deeply influential formative periods in their lives—seems to be part of the reason why insults to them seem morally worse, all things considered, than the same insults to adults. A verbal, psychological, or physical insult (like a 50 psi blow) to a seasoned and callused adult might easily leave him unharmed and unaffected, like “water off a duck’s back”; but the very same insult to a child might easily break a bone or a spirit, thus doing a lot more harm.

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