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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. - Tom G. Palmer
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Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions. - Tom G. Palmer
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Obligations may be universal or particular. - Tom G. Palmer
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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. - Tom G. Palmer
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Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves. - Tom G. Palmer
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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. - Tom G. Palmer
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What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights. - Tom G. Palmer
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Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us. - Tom G. Palmer
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Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America. - Tom G. Palmer
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If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command? - Tom G. Palmer
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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. - Tom G. Palmer
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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. - Tom G. Palmer
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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. - Tom G. Palmer
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It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives. - Tom G. Palmer
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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. - Tom G. Palmer
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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. - Tom G. Palmer
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The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket. - Tom G. Palmer
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