The Christian theologian will never find a contradiction between the propositions of faith and reason, because it is his job to interpret them out of… - George H. Smith

The physical capacity to coerce others can never generate a moral obligation to obey the dictates of [government] power.

According to this approach, legitimate disagreements may occur between subjects and rulers when alienable rights are involved, but no such disputes are justified over the question of inalienable rights. Government cannot claim any jurisdiction over such rights, because inalienable rights, by their very nature, could never have been transferred to government in the first place.

A willingness to engage in the give and take of argument displays a commitment to cognitive egalitarianism—the proposition that all people should be treated as intellectual equals, and that no individual can legitimately claim a privileged immunity from the burden of proof.