There are many disfunctional, mentally-ill people. However, the majority of deaths, massacres, wars and heinous crimes have been perpetrated by people while following orders given to them by someone who called themselves 'Government'. It might be the soldiers who die but it's the cowards in positions of power who give the order. If everyone realized that just because there's something or someone calling themselves 'Government' which orders you to go out and kill people it doens't mean you actually have to do that, how many wars, atrocities, massacres etc do you think we will see? Not a lot, I think.

That being said, you ALWAYS bear a personal responsability for your actions which harm another human being (and perhaps even as far as every other living thing). Responsability means you cannot hide behind the false excuse of 'just following orders'. It's the one who pulls the trigger, dumps the toxic waste in the river or pulls the wings off of flies. NOT the one who ordered you to do that. You have a moral responsability to think for yourself. And as soon as you realize you cannot hide behind leaders, you realize the idea of Government of and in itself is idiotic.

Second part: huh? Where did I say that children should have exactly the same rights as adults? I was talking about the legal obligations imposed upon a baby, at the same time it 'receives' civil rights. Civil rights are a legal fiction; which come from the idea of a Social Contract between an individual and the State. And since a new-born cannot make a balanced judgement, any contract imposing obligations upon an individual is null and void.

I'm interested what rights you had in mind when you reacted, because I don't know what you're hinting at.

edit: spelling