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T or F: Hospers believes that the right to liberty means that I'm entitled to be free from speech that offends me.
T or F: Libertarians believe in the right to liberty and the right to property, but they reject the right to life.
T or F: Laws that require that we help one another makes us into slaves, according to Hospers.
T or F: According to Hospers, since I have a right to life, that means I have a right to the bare minimum I need to sustain my life. That means Hospers believes I am entitled to be provided with food and health care.
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T or F: According to Libertarianism, because we have a right to property, slavery can sometimes be justified.
T or F: According to Hospers, the right to property means that I am entitled to the property I need to sustain my life.
T or F: According to libertarianism, we have no obligation to provide anything for those dying in poverty if we have done nothing to put them in that poverty.
T or F: If a controversial view is true but the majority believes that the contrary view is false, the controversial view should not be allowed because it will promote unhappiness to the greatest number, according to Mill.
T or F: Mill argues that the reason we are free is that we are born with inalienable rights, one of them being the right to liberty.
T or F: According to The Declaration of Independence, when the government becomes destructive of the ends for which we agreed, we have no obligation to recognize their authority.
T or F: According to Hobbes, if the government reduces us to slavery, we have the right to dissolve the government and return to the state of nature.
T or F: According to Locke, if the government reduces us to slavery, we have the right to dissolve the government and return to the state of nature.
T or F: According to Locke, when we mix our labor with unowned land, we increase the value of the land.
T or F: According to Mill, we are not genuinely free until we are provided with the things we need to pursue our aims, such as food, shelter, and clothing
T or F: According to Locke, if the government takes away and destroys our property, we have the right to dissolve the government and return the state of nature.
T or F: According to Locke, whatever we mix with our labor becomes ours, even if we take more than we can use.
T or F: According to Locke, whatever we mix with our labor in a state of nature becomes our property, even if it already belongs to someone else
T or F: According to Hobbes, if the government takes away and destroys our property, we have the right to dissolve the government and return the state of nature.
T or F: Hobbes' Social Contract and not Locke's was the main influence on the framers of the Declaration of Independence