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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The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.Tom G. Palmer
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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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.
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Rather, classical liberals and libertarians argue that the system of justice should abstract from the concrete characteristics of individuals.
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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.
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If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?
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