Notable Quote – Tibor Machan

by Skip

The belief that people may justly be coerced so as to secure funds to pay medical professionals who then will service those who need their work is an error. In a free country adult men and women must treat each other as ends in themselves, not as unwilling tools, instruments, or means to each other’s ends. Just as someone may not go over to his neighbor’s home and conscript some unwilling individual to come and mow his lawn or drive him to the hospital but must ask for this and await willingly given help, so any service such as medical care must be obtained without coercion.

- Tibor Machan, Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, Auburn University

(From an interview at The Daily Bell; go read it)

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