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

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.

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

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

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

Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.

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.