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.

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.

To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice.

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

Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.

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

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.