Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America.
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To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice.Tom G. Palmer
It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.
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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 issue of the common good is related to the beliefs of communitarians regarding the personality or the separate existence of groups.
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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.
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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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William Ralph Inge
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
H. L. Mencken
If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one's judgment, till I see the end of another year; for the Lord will begin with a new century; and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man's judgment.
Joanna Southcott