http://www.cato-unbound.org/2010/03/12/tom-g-palmer/liberty-is-liberty/ Big Ideas for a Better World Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:01:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.cato-unbound.org/2010/03/12/tom-g-palmer/liberty-is-liberty/comment-page-1/#comment-366141 All Slippery Slopes Lead To Robert Young « Around The Sphere Sat, 10 Apr 2010 10:39:49 +0000 http://www.cato-unbound.org/?p=2719#comment-366141 [...] Now, these cost-imposers may act with a smile on their face, or they may be brutal about it. They may have a representative government to validate their acts, or not. But political and non-political costs should never be confused. Political freedom is the freedom from arbitrary interference on the part of other people. We find it striking, and worrisome, when we see political theorists who aren’t so careful about the distinction. (For more on this idea, see Tom Palmer, writing in last month’s Cato Unbound.) [...] [...] Now, these cost-imposers may act with a smile on their face, or they may be brutal about it. They may have a representative government to validate their acts, or not. But political and non-political costs should never be confused. Political freedom is the freedom from arbitrary interference on the part of other people. We find it striking, and worrisome, when we see political theorists who aren’t so careful about the distinction. (For more on this idea, see Tom Palmer, writing in last month’s Cato Unbound.) [...]

]]> http://www.cato-unbound.org/2010/03/12/tom-g-palmer/liberty-is-liberty/comment-page-1/#comment-365949 The Costs of Paternalism | The League of Ordinary Gentlemen Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:33:18 +0000 http://www.cato-unbound.org/?p=2719#comment-365949 [...] Now, these cost-imposers may act with a smile on their face, or they may be brutal about it. They may have a representative government to validate their acts, or not. But political and non-political costs should never be confused. Political freedom is the freedom from arbitrary interference on the part of other people. We find it striking, and worrisome, when we see political theorists who aren’t so careful about the distinction. (For more on this idea, see Tom Palmer, writing in last month’s Cato Unbound.) [...] [...] Now, these cost-imposers may act with a smile on their face, or they may be brutal about it. They may have a representative government to validate their acts, or not. But political and non-political costs should never be confused. Political freedom is the freedom from arbitrary interference on the part of other people. We find it striking, and worrisome, when we see political theorists who aren’t so careful about the distinction. (For more on this idea, see Tom Palmer, writing in last month’s Cato Unbound.) [...]

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