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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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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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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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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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Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.


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


— 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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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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He traveled throughout the region to hold seminars and smuggled books cash photocopiers and fax machines from an office in Vienna Austria. Cohen's attack on property rights several responses to the theories of Cass Sunstein and Stephen Holmes and essays on multicultural politics on globalization on globalization and personal and cultural identity and on libertarian political philosophy. Hayek Milton Friedman and other thinkers in the libertarian and liberal traditions.

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