- Obey
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves.
- Census
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- Nov 07, 2020
The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.
- Differences
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- Nov 07, 2020
What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.
- Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020
Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.
- Choices
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Obligations
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obligations may be universal or particular.
- Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020
Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Choice
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- Nov 07, 2020
To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice.
- Healthy
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- Nov 07, 2020