Equality Of Rights Means That Some People

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.

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.

At George Mason University I Saw Hoppe Present A Lecture In Which He Claimed That Ludwig Von Mises Had Set The Intellectual Foundation For Not Only Economics, But For Ethics, Geometry, And Optics, As Well. This Bizarre Claim Turned A Serious Scholar And Profound Thinker Into A Comical Cult Figure, A Sort Of Euro Kim Il Sung.

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.

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.