“But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are...” — Tom G. Palmer Quote

“But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe.”

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

“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.”

“I am often driven by necessity, rather than actually doing things like an adult.”

“For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.”

“So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional.”