The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.

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

Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or retarded.

If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?

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.

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.

It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.

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.

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.

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

Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

Which sort of shows why my body is an idiot, because forced narcolepsy is pretty much the worst defense ever.

The Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court, on the other hand, did not want all the votes to be counted.

I'm definitely a child of the 21st century and I prefer texting to phone calls, but I would prefer an answering machine over all.

I never did acid, I am just so high anyway.

The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it

To pray well is the better half of study.

I feel guilty just sitting around when I know I can be doing something.

All you need to do to be a bit sexier is to smile once in a while!

Now, I don't make decisions as fast as I used to.