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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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Freedom is an inherently social concept, devoid of meaning outside of society, whereas the concept of assets (or wealth) is not an inherently social concept. A man all alone on a planet, with no connections with other moral agents, can hardly be said to be either free or unfree. He doesn’t live in a free society, just as he doesn’t live in a generous society. For the same reason, he could not be said to be unfree. He doesn’t live in a society, at all. Liberty, like generosity and kindness, refers to a relationship among persons (or at least among moral beings of some sort). (It may involve other terms, as well, but it is nonsensical to invoke the concept of liberty without invoking a multiplicity of persons.) | Freedom is an inherently social concept, devoid of meaning outside of society, whereas the concept of assets (or wealth) is not an inherently social concept. A man all alone on a planet, with no connections with other moral agents, can hardly be said to be either free or unfree. He doesn’t live in a free society, just as he doesn’t live in a generous society. For the same reason, he could not be said to be unfree. He doesn’t live in a society, at all. Liberty, like generosity and kindness, refers to a relationship among persons (or at least among moral beings of some sort). (It may involve other terms, as well, but it is nonsensical to invoke the concept of liberty without invoking a multiplicity of persons.) | ||
Tom Palmer | Tom Palmer | ||
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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}} | ||
| + | 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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| + | * [[Liberty (propaganda)]] | ||
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