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Tom Gordon Palmer (/ˈpɑːlmər/; born 1956, Bitburg-Mötsch, West Germany) is a libertarian author and theorist, a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and Vice President for International Programs at the Atlas Network.

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

Born, Command, Individuality, Obligation, Right

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

Arguing, Imposed, Libertarian, Normal, Particular, Under

Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or retarded.

Children, Differences, Insane, Normal, Recognize

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.

Doe, Essentials, Process, Require, Trying, Use

Young people today are being robbed. Of their rights. Of their freedom. Of their dignity. Of their futures. The culprits? My generation and our predecessors, who either created or failed to stop the world straddling engine of theft, degradation, manipulation, and social control we call the welfare state.

Culprits, Manipulation, People, Rights, Today

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

Adults, Children, Choices, Guardians, Necessary

Obligations may be universal or particular.

May, Obligation, Obligations, Palms, Particular, Universal

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.

Agency, Equality, Mean, Obligations, People, Violated

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

History, Libertarians, Liberty, Point, Years

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.

Good, Liberty, Pluralism, Pluralism Is, Reason, World

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.

Census, Civic, Distributing, Doe, Government, Tickets

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

Cooperation, Fully, Groups, Individuals, Self, Survival

The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves.

Asked, Females, Males, Names, Numbers, White

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

Choice, Choices, Matter, Obligation, Obligations

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

Distributing, Form, Government, Mechanism, Tickets

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