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*I hope my article shows that Caplan is a tyrant who has no idea what freedom means. He presents himself as someone who cares about freedom, as this reasonable guy who wants a balanced approach, but his primary concern isn’t freedom at all. Instead, he wants to *grant* freedom on *his* terms. He wants to prescribe predefined goals and assuage parents’ guilt for using coercion.*

*Freedom is indivisible and allows absolutely no compromises. You cannot balance freedom. Caplan is a good example of the Randian insight that [even the smallest compromise in basic principles or moral matters is a complete surrender.](http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/compromise.html).  An honest man who steals once in a while is not an honest man, as Ayn Rand implied. A free man who has to pick crops 1-2 hours a day is not a free man. An honest manA free child who steals once inhas to learn math 1-2 hours a whileday is not an honest man, as Ayn Rand implied. And so on.*a free child. The whole point of unschooling is (or should be!) freedom, not productivity or career choices or whatever.*