“There is no social entity with a good that undergoes some sacrifice for its own good. There are only individual people, different individual people, with their own individual lives. Using one of these people for the benefit of others, uses him and benefits the others. Nothing more.”

— Robert Nozick

Source: (1974), Ch. 3 : Moral Constraints and the State; Why Side Constraints?, p. 32

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