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.

Obligations may be universal or particular.

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

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

Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America.

Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.

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