 When the FDA endeavors to protect us from ourselves, it ends up preventing us from protecting ourselves.
William Dwyer
... one cannot give up one's property rights as such, because the very act of giving up a piece of property in exchange for something else is itself an exercise of one's right to the property. Property rights imply the right to use and disposal, and by exchanging one's property for something else, one is disposing of it according to one's wishes. One couldn't exchange it for something else if one didn't have the right to it to begin with. So the right to surrender one's property is only possible if one possesses property rights in the first place -- if one possesses the right to control that which one owns. It is the right to control that which one owns that one cannot give up or surrender.
William Dwyer
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/Dissent/0270_2.shtml#57
The fundamental issue here is not the proper role of government; it is the proper concept of rights.
William Dwyer
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/NewsDiscussions/2540.shtml#4
If you're trying to convince us, then you need to demonstrate that you understand Objectivism before presuming to criticize it.
William Dwyer
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/Dissent/0107.shtml#14
Every prescription is a description, since all statements about reality, including normative or ethical statements, are simply statements of fact - statements about what exists.
William Dwyer
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/ObjectivismQ&A/0187_2.shtml#52
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