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

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

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.

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

Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.

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.