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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves. — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share
But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share
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 Copy Share
It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives. — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share
Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share
What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights. — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share
The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share
[L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history. — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share
Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share
At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual foundation for… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share
Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share
Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions. — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share
The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share
