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Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions. Tom G. Palmer Group 264
But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe. Tom G. Palmer Believe 198
What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights. Tom G. Palmer Among 174
Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves. Tom G. Palmer Abnormal 120
Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance. Tom G. Palmer Medical 90
Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us. Tom G. Palmer Influenced 81
Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good. Tom G. Palmer Assert 76
Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated. Tom G. Palmer Equality 76
Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or retarded. Tom G. Palmer Between 58
Obligations may be universal or particular. Tom G. Palmer Obligations 50
The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket. Tom G. Palmer Become 49
Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America. Tom G. Palmer America 47
The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does. Tom G. Palmer Census 46
To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice. Tom G. Palmer Choice 35
Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others. Tom G. Palmer Argue 32
If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command? Tom G. Palmer Born 31
It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives. Tom G. Palmer Different 30
Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities. Tom G. Palmer Abstract 26
It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing. Tom G. Palmer Cooperation 23

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