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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.
The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.
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 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.
Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America.
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.
Obligations may be universal or particular.
It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.
Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.
Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.
Young people today are being robbed. Of their rights. Of their freedom. Of their dignity. Of their futures. The culprits? My generation and our predecessors, who either created or failed to stop the world straddling engine of theft, degradation, manipulation, and social control we call the welfare state.
What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.
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.
Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.
If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?
Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.
