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  • It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.

    Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.38, Cato Institute
  • 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 (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.36, Cato Institute
  • Obligations may be universal or particular.

    May   Obligation   Palms  
    Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.36, Cato Institute
  • Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.

    Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.35, Cato Institute
  • 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.

    Believe   Hands   Choices  
    Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.35, Cato Institute
  • 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 (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.401, Cato Institute
  • 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.

  • 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 (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.37, Cato Institute
  • 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.

    Trying   Essentials   Doe  
    Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.34, Cato Institute
  • 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 (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.39, Cato Institute
  • It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.

    Self   Survival   Groups  
    Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.35, Cato Institute
  • At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual foundation for not only economics, but for ethics, geometry, and optics, as well. This bizarre claim turned a serious scholar and profound thinker into a comical cult figure, a sort of Euro Kim Il Sung.

  • Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.

    Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.40, Cato Institute
  • If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?

    Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.37, Cato Institute
  • 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.

    Mean   Equality   Agency  
    Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.36, Cato Institute
  • 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.

    Names   White   Numbers  
    Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.402, Cato Institute
  • The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.

    Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.403, Cato Institute
  • What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.

    Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.35, Cato Institute
  • Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.

    Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.35, Cato Institute
  • Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America.

  • [L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history.

    Years   History   Liberty  
    Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.38, Cato Institute
  • Young people today are being robbed. Of their rights. Of their freedom. Of their dignity. Of their futures. The culprits? My generation and our predecessors, who either created or failed to stop the world straddling engine of theft, degradation, manipulation, and social control we call the welfare state.

    Rights   People   Today  
  • 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 (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.35, Cato Institute
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