Tom G. Palmer
Tom G. Palmer
Tom Gordon Palmeris a libertarian author and theorist, a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and Vice President for International Programs at the Atlas Network...
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I've been a fan of Stephen Hunter, film critic at the Washington Post, for some time. I've always found his reviews to be helpful guides to films.
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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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Communitarians are typically much more cautious, but despite a lot of talk they rarely tell us much about what our common good might be.
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It's possible that the law would be innocuous and merely say that no legislation may violate Islam. The big problem is, who gets to determine that? Religious courts? Whose?
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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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[L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history.
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It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.
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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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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.
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Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.
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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.
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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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It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.
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Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America.