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.
From Tom G. Palmer
It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.
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.
The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.
Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America.
Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.
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.
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.
Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.
To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice.
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