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

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

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

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.

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.

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