Tolerance and Liberalism (w/ Andrew Jason Cohen)
ReImagining Liberty
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Is There a Law Requirement for Schooling?
In law school, I wrote a paper on there's a whole string of court cases where basically it's about religious exceptions to laws. If the parents believe that by not doing this, their children will go to hell for eternity, which is about as extreme of a harm as we can possibly imagine, then it would be monstrously unjust to say, no, the interests of your child say attending school this afternoon outweigh burning in hell for eternity. But yeah, in the society we live in, if the state says we can't have the exemption for these reasons, that does seem like it's imposing its view about ... at least the falseness of the one that the people here have. We
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