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Book Review: Criminal Justice? The Legal System vs. Individual Responsibility Edited by Robert James Bidinotto, by Joseph Sobran, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Sep 1995
Related Topic: David K. Walter
"Progressives used to talk confidently about 'building a new society.' ... The intellectual cornerstone of the New Society was ... that human behavior is in principle caused by factors outside the agent's control. ... Even our official language expresses the regnant ideology. Hence we now have departments not of penal justice, but of 'correction.'" |
Creativity and Criminality: The Two Faces of Responsibility, by Thomas S. Szasz, Nov 2000
Originally published in Ideas on Liberty |
| Escape from Responsibility, by Sheldon Richman, May 1996 |
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| Feeding Obesity, by Scott McPherson, 13 Feb 2004 |
| Freedom, Virtue, and Responsibility, Part 1, by Jacob G. Hornberger, Apr 1994 |
| Freedom, Virtue, and Responsibility, Part 2, by Jacob G. Hornberger, May 1994 |
| Freedom, Virtue, and Responsibility, Part 3, by Jacob G. Hornberger, Jun 1994 |
| Individual Responsibility Is Key to Health Care Concerns, by Milton Kamsler, M.D., Heartland Institute Health Care News, 1 Apr 2002 |
Persuasion vs. Force, by Mark Skousen, Liberty, Sep 1991
"Too often lawmakers resort to the force of law rather than the power of persuasion to solve a problem in society. ... Character and responsibility are built when people voluntarily choose right over wrong, not when they are forced to do so. ... Freedom without responsibility only leads to the destruction of civilization ..." |
Responsibility, by Charley Reese, 10 Apr 2006
"... some folks view the tort system as a trip to Las Vegas or as a lottery. If they are involved in a single-car crash, then it's the car's fault or the road's fault. ... If they get fat or harden their arteries, it's the food industry's fault. ... If they stupidly shoot themselves, it's the gun manufacturer's fault." |
The Price of Liberty, by Michael Cloud, 1999
Edited transcript of keynote address at Libertarian Party of California convention. |
| Tobacco Medicaid Litigation: Snuffing Out the Rule of Law, by Robert A. Levy, Cato Institute Policy Analysis, 20 Jun 1997 |
| Treating Us like Children, by Sheldon Richman, Freedom Daily, Nov 1998 |
'Date Rape' on Campus, by Murray N. Rothbard, The Rothbard-Rockwell Report, Feb 1991
Related Topics: Sexual Pleasure, Romantic Love
"Are we now to include in rape any sex taking place after liquor is imbibed? ... Everyone is responsible for whatever he or she imbibes, unless the guy spiked the girl's drink without her knowledge (not mentioned in any of these cases) and everyone is responsible for their own actions, liquor or not." |
A Clarion Call for Health Independence, by Wendy McElroy, 31 Jan 2007
Related Topics: Health Care, Marriage
A review of the movie Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
"... Lorenzo's Oil is a counterargument to the assumed need for government funding and law to regulate all things medical in order to ensure progress and quality care. The movie is a clarion call for individuals to take control of their own bodies and their own medical well being. It is the triumph of personal responsibility over bureaucracy, the individual over the system." |
Another Meaning To September 11th, by Butler Shaffer, 19 Sep 2001
Related Topics: September 11, 2001
"These passengers represent the real 'new world order': men and women taking control over and responsibility for their own lives and, in the process, bringing decision-making back to the individual. We are once again reminded that whatever orderliness prevails in our world is determined by how ordinary people respond to the immediate events in their lives." |
Dialectics and Liberty [PDF], by Chris Matthew Sciabarra, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Sep 2005
Related Topics: Dialectics, Aristotle, Ayn Rand
"Hayek understood that under advancing statism, culture tends to both promote and reflect those social practices that undermine individual self-responsibility. Likewise, a free society is one in which the culture tends to promote and reflect those social practices that require individual self-responsibility." |
How the Welfare State Corrupted Sweden, by Per Bylund, Mises.org Daily Article, 31 May 2006
Related Topics: Sweden, Day Care, Unemployment
"People seem unable to enjoy life without responsibility for one's actions and choices, and it is impossible to feel pride and independence without having the means to control one's life. The welfare state has created a dependent people utterly incapable of finding value in life ..." |
Iraqi Death by Political Abstraction, by Sheldon Richman, 5 Jun 2006
Related Topics: Haditha Massacre, Leonard E. Read
"Realization that responsibility rises to the very top does not, of course, exonerate anyone below. The Marines at Haditha didn’t have to pull the triggers ... For too long we have sought escape from responsibility in political clichés. For too long innocents have died at the hands of phantom political abstractions." |
Law, Property Rights, and Air Pollution, by Murray N. Rothbard, Cato Journal 2, 1982
Related Topics: Law, Randy E. Barnett, Cancer, Richard A. Epstein, Ethics, Property, Property Rights, Freedom of Speech
"In reality, a 'corporation' does not act; only individuals act, and each must be responsible for his own actions and those alone. Epstein may deride Holmes's position as being based on the 'nineteenth-century premise that individual conduct alone was the basis of individual responsibility,' but Holmes was right nevertheless." |
Roads, Cars, and Responsibility, by Scott McPherson, 7 Apr 2004
Related Topics: Private Roads, Fairfax, Virginia, London, England, Singapore |
Why Are We Afraid To Be Free?, by Butler Shaffer, 27 Nov 2001
Related Topics: Individual Liberty
"Because we are self-controlling beings, we are also responsible for our actions. This is not a moral or ethical proposition, but simply a causal one: I am responsible for what I do because I am the one who controls my actions. By the same token, to the degree we seek to control the lives and property of others, we help to foster, in their minds, the illusions that they are not responsible for what they do." |
Winning the Battle for Freedom and Prosperity, by John Mackey, Liberty, Jun 2006
Related Topics: Business, Educational Freedom, Free Markets, Health, Health Care, Life Extension, Socialism
Updated from speech given at FreedomFest 2004
"The freedom movement must first advocate the ideal of self-responsibility for health. We own our own bodies, don't we? ... the Left, by supporting socialized medicine, demonstrates a belief that common citizens are too stupid to take responsibility for our own health and therefore need the 'experts' to step in and control things for our own good." |
| Cartoons |
| Dan Wasserman, by Dan Wasserman, 7 Feb 2004 |
| How To Solve the Problem of Childhood Obesity, by Chuck Asay, 20 Jul 2005 |
| Books |
Taking Responsibility: Self-Reliance and the Accountable Life
by Nathaniel Branden, 1996 |
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