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

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

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

[L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history.

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

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

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