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{{DES | des = Liberty, or freedom, is a zero-sum game.  For me to have a liberty, your liberty must be restricted by a duty not to interfere.  The liberty of your nose depends on a duty not to swing my fist into it.  Liberty can be redistributed, but not created or destroyed. | show=}}
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{{DES | des = Liberty, or [[freedom]], is a zero-sum game.  For me to have a liberty, your liberty must be restricted by a duty not to interfere.  The liberty of your nose depends on a coercive duty imposed on me to not swing my fist into it.  Liberty can be redistributed, but not created or destroyed. Pretending otherwise is one of the great frauds of libertarianism.| show=}}
  
 
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Tom Palmer
 
Tom Palmer
  
One man's liberty is another man's slavery.  Often literally: the liberty to own slaves has been a frequent, real world oxymoron.  For one man to have uncoerced freedom, all others must have a coerced duty to not interfere with that freedom.  There can be no maximizing of liberty overall: only redistribution of liberty and coercion.
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One man's liberty is another man's slavery.  Often literally: the liberty to own slaves has been a frequent, real world oxymoron.   
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{{QuoteOne | Timely Abraham Lincoln quote: Who defines Liberty?/shepherd}}
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For one man to have uncoerced freedom, all others must have a coerced duty to not interfere with that freedom.  There can be no maximizing of liberty overall: only redistribution of liberty and coercion.
  
 
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