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What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.

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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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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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Obligations may be universal or particular.

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Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.

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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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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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It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.

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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.

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Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: Unknown

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