Quotation of the Day…

by Don Boudreaux on April 18, 2013

in Civil Society, Nanny State

… is from page 19 of my colleague Dan Klein’s 1998 monograph 3 Libertarian Essays:

True social decency does not dwell on, pity, or patronize someone’s weakness or disadvantage, real or supposed.  It does not rescue when rescue has not been sought. It does not judge or even draw attention to.  It proceeds on the assumption that the individual is conducting his affairs as he sees fit, no matter how mad the method may seem.

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