The world of childhood in America used to offer safe adventure. Children spent their free time running around outside unsupervised, exploring and poking into this and that, without much danger at all. They invented their own games and whatnot. People could rely on neighbors and passers by to keep things in reasonably OK channels. That doesn't seem to be true any more. It's not clear how it could be true in an officially multicultural society.
As to philosophy, present-day liberalism basically combines a utilitarian theory of value with a theory of justice that calls for equality among persons. The book includes a longish discussion of the point.
Unsafe at any utility
The world of childhood in America used to offer safe adventure. Children spent their free time running around outside unsupervised, exploring and poking into this and that, without much danger at all. They invented their own games and whatnot. People could rely on neighbors and passers by to keep things in reasonably OK channels. That doesn't seem to be true any more. It's not clear how it could be true in an officially multicultural society.
As to philosophy, present-day liberalism basically combines a utilitarian theory of value with a theory of justice that calls for equality among persons. The book includes a longish discussion of the point.
Rem tene, verba sequentur.