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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The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.
Responsible choice involves consequences, not the least of which are relinquishments all along our way.
In the name of freedom, there has to be a correlation between rights and duties, by which every person is called to assume responsibility for his or her choices, made as a consequence of entering into relations with others.
Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.
In life, you get one choice over and over again. That is to take conditions as they are or take responsibility for changing them.
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Obligations may be universal or particular.
I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
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