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

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

Obligations may be universal or particular.

Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.

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.

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

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.