Tom G. Palmer

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

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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

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Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

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Obligations may be universal or particular. ↗

— 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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The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket. ↗

— 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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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

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