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Thursday, February 16, 2006

FEE Timely Classic


In Defense of the Individual
by Edmund A. Opitz

Even when using persuasion one ought not invade another’s privacy, but rather ought to respect every man’s right to choose his friends, his church, his club, the persons he will admit into his home, the people he will permit to use his machines and premises if he owns a factory, the teachers he selects to educate his children, the doctor he selects when he is ill, and so on. A man is entitled to live the life of his own choosing in accord with his own will and conscience. But he has no right to live at the expense of any other person. Morehellip;