These Essays are Youth Rights Gold

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These Essays are Youth Rights Gold

Hey everybody! I wanted to share some excellent essays arguing for youth rights that go in-depth, walk through plenty of counterarguments, and don't wimp out.

If you use these links, you can read the papers by just scrolling down.

https://www.academia.edu/2046034/Childre...Liberation
https://www.academia.edu/19663920/Agains...tal_Rights

And here are 2 more links to the same papers, where you can download them without creating any accounts.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?a...id=1803459
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?a...id=2702919

I love these essays; I don't think I've ever heard an argument against youth rights that isn't covered in one of them. If you find one, please tell me; I'd love to hear it.

04-15-2016 05:05 AM

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SoulRiser , Aureate , Rule_BreakerXVIII

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