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" Obligations may be universal or particular. "
Tom G. Palmer
Particular
May
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" 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. "
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" It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives. "
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" 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. "
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" The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves. "
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" It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing. "
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" To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice. "
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" Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us. "
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" Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others. "
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" If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command? "
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" What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket. "
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Your
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" Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America. "
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" Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions. "
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