Feline Kekistan wrote:Blackpilled harsh take:
1. Kids aren't socially considered people because they are physically weak, poor (all kids are poor lol) and have almost no powerful social connections.
2. Due to 1 people can usually randomly harm them and get away with that.
3. Due to 1 and 2 we can in fact measure the strength of a society using the amount of unpoliced child abuse. In the Hobbesian state of nature children are regularly murdered with impunity. As societies strengthen child rights improve.
You've never actually read Hobbes, have you?
Hobbes concludes that every able-bodied person is an equal threat to each other, regardless of size or strength.