To Repeat, Communitarians Maintain That We Are

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.

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.

What Libertarians Assert Is Simply That Differences Among Normal Adults Do Not Imply Different Fundamental Rights.

It Is Precisely Because Neither Individuals Nor Small Groups Can Be Fully Self-sufficient That Cooperation Is Necessary To Human Survival And Flourishing.

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.