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Are children capable of providing informed consent for the purposes of the law? That's questionable, so it's questionable if all child labour prohibitions infringe upon individual liberty.

But laws against prostitution and low wage work (aka minimum wage) are absolutely infringements of personal liberty, even if they directly affect only a tiny subset of the population.



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