Sometimes life is a hard teacher.
Agreed. When I was a kid, it was somewhat difficult to get things I "shouldn't" have without my parents finding out. It mostly involved enlisting the help of someone old enough to buy the cigarettes/beer/porn.
That is not the case today. Kids can easily get digital products from the comfort of their bedroom, with little chance of alerting mom & dad taht something suspicious is going on (no need to explain the new 22yo 'friend'). If the law requires you to be 18 to purchase explicit magazines, then why not explicit digital products?
The goal is not to do the job for parents, but to help the parents do their job.
the USA has privatised vast parts of the infrastructure of its society.
The USA has not privatized it's infrastructure; most of it was never public.
For human rights to be preserved in the USA, human rights must now be observed by private industry.
How does burning a book violate anyone's human rights? The whole point is FREEDOM, which applies to each of us (as individuals or as private entities) equally. Imposing one person or group's belief of what is 'right' on another is not freedom.
Why not? Assuming that an external entity (government or otherwise) could grant one "happiness" (caveats about actual ability of doing so and different individuals' definitions of same being applied, etc.), why would you not want this external entity to do so?
Because human beings cannot be "given" happiness. That is something that can only be achieved. It is human nature to view that something obtained for free (no work, no sacrifice, etc.) has a much lower value than something that was earned through one's own efforts. Give a man a fish, and he'll wait around until you to give him another, and curse you when it isn't to his liking.
No amount of careful planning will ever replace dumb luck.