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"Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions."
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"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."


"What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights."


"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."


"It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing."


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


"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."


"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."
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