Difference between revisions of "Libertarians: Call Them Irresponsible/Responsibility"

[[Category:A. Jay Adler]]

[[Category:A. Jay Adler]]

[[Category:Conservative Criticisms Of Libertarianism]]

[[Category:Conservative Criticisms Of Libertarianism]]

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| text = There are, for the libertarian, few more unloaded and provocative words than that of responsibility. The libertarian is so challenged by the word, in effect, as to suffer a kind of cognitive disability in the face of it. Libertarians, and the Tea Party conservatives who converge with them in this area of thought, frequently cannot distinguish responsibility as obligation, responsibility as the holding of another in one’s care, and responsibility as guilt, the last of which is what libertarians will always fear is impugned in any discussion of common responsibility, and all of which is always, as government policy, a tyrannical burden upon them.

| text = There are, for the libertarian, few more unloaded and provocative words than that of responsibility. The libertarian is so challenged by the word, in effect, as to suffer a kind of cognitive disability in the face of it. Libertarians, and the Tea Party conservatives who converge with them in this area of thought, frequently cannot distinguish responsibility as obligation, responsibility as the holding of another in one’s care, and responsibility as guilt, the last of which is what libertarians will always fear is impugned in any discussion of common responsibility, and all of which is always, as government policy, a tyrannical burden upon them.

| cite = [[A. Jay Adler]], "{{Link |Libertarians: Call Them Irresponsible}}"

| cite = [[A. Jay Adler]], "{{Link |Libertarians: Call Them Irresponsible}}"

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