Abstract
According to them, the alternative is ownership by another. Libertarians claim that it is compatible with a wide range of ethical, philosophical, and religious viewpoints, so long as these do not involve coercion.\n As Buchanan and Brennan put it, "the maintenance of the standards of public life, it could be argued, may require a heroic vision of the 'statesman' or 'public servant,' because only by holding such a vision can the possibility of public-interested behavior on the part of political agents be increased."