Group Personification Obscures, Rather Than Illuminates, Important

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.

Group Personification Obscures, Rather Than Illuminates, Important Political Questions.

Guardians Are Necessary For Children And Abnormal Adults, Because They Cannot Make Responsible Choices For Themselves.

At George Mason University I Saw Hoppe Present A Lecture In Which He Claimed That Ludwig Von Mises Had Set The Intellectual Foundation For Not Only Economics, But For Ethics, Geometry, And Optics, As Well. This Bizarre Claim Turned A Serious Scholar And Profound Thinker Into A Comical Cult Figure, A Sort Of Euro Kim Il Sung.

To Repeat, Communitarians Maintain That We Are Constituted As Persons By Our Particular Obligations, And Therefore Those Obligations Cannot Be A Matter Of Choice.