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 Copy Share Image
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,… — 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 Image
Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves. — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives. — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
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 Image
What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights. — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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