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Tom G. Palmer
Tom G. Palmer
American Educator
Born: 1956
Adult Argue Cannot Census Choices Obligations
Related authors: Bill Nye Booker T. Washington Horace Mann John W. Gardner Michael Pollan Michael Porter Temple Grandin Timothy Leary
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. Tom G. Palmer
Free First White Older Other Head Name Household Females Males Questions Than Six Just Census Younger Persons Asked Number Slaves
Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America. Tom G. Palmer
Life Wild No Idea Idea Most How North North America America Europeans
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. Tom G. Palmer
Problem Relevant Mental Entities Abstract Abstraction Discern Does Trying Essential Process Require Use Belief
What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights. Tom G. Palmer
Rights Differences Libertarians Adult Simply Imply Normal Different Assert Fundamental Among Fundamental Rights
Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves. Tom G. Palmer
Guardians Responsible Abnormal Adult Make Because Children Cannot Themselves Choices Necessary
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. Tom G. Palmer
Other Libertarians Circumstances Finds Abnormal Except Argue Adult Unconscious Another Calls Impose Normal Normal Circumstances Ambulance Person Choices Medical Right Assistance
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. Tom G. Palmer
Entitled Holding Believe Other Some Both Adult Obvious Make Normal Left Choices Reason Right
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. Tom G. Palmer
Rights Obligations People Equality Some People Others Those Moral Would Some Simply Impose Cannot Agency Then Means Violated
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
Obligations Matter Our Those Maintain Particular Repeat Cannot Persons Choice Therefore
It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives. Tom G. Palmer
Good Healthy Live Virtuous Individuals Obvious Different Require Different Things Lives Things
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. Tom G. Palmer
Good World Liberty Inevitable Libertarians Recognize Pluralism Individual Individual Liberty Part Least Modern Common Common Good Modern World Reason Assert
Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions. Tom G. Palmer
Political Important Group Rather Questions Than Personification Illuminates

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