Quoting Russell Coker (russell@coker.com.au):
Libertarianism aims to stop this. To give parents full liberty they should be allowed to starve theor children. Also the Libertarian party in the US wants to legalise child porn.
Uh... [citation needed] (Disclosure: I am indeed a Yank, but for the record consider the USA Libertarian Party to be a mixture of loons and corporatist shills. I am a member of the USA Democratic Party, and deemed a liberal. I consider myself neither a large-L or small-l libertarian.) After a ~10 minute search, I find zero support for the above allegation. I find a claim that in 2008 the USA Libertarian Party considered but passed over for nomination an anarchist candidate named Murray Rothbard who favoured legalising child pornography, but find nothing else suggesting what Russell asserts. To the contrary, I also find a Quora debunking of the claim: https://www.quora.com/Why-has-the-U-S-Libertarian-Party-never-advocated-lega... For larger context, unlike the case in Oz, the emergent effects of FPTP voting in districts (winner take all) and lack of ranked-choice voting (aka 'Australian ballot') most places in the USA creates an unintentional huge bias towards two parties, which for the last ~100 years have been the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. See Duverger's Law for the mechanics behind this observed effect: http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/lexicon.html#duverger Thus, USA Libertarian Party is one of several _incredibly tiny_ (fringe, nutcase) USA political parties. _And yet_, it appears to be incorrect to assert that it 'wants to legalise child porn. Here's an indication about how much a fringe concern it is: The California 2016 Presidential Primary Election occurred on Tuesday, June 7. Semi-official voting totals, that day: 5,173,312 69.29% Democratic Party votes 2,227,306 29.94% Republican Party votes 30,502 0.40% American Independent Party votes 21,495 0.28% Libertarian Party votes 10,123 0.14% Green Party votes 3,644 0.05% Peace and Freedom Party votes --------- ------- 7,266,382 100.00% total votes cast ========= =======