 One objection to enactment of a social minimum that arises in political discussion is that such enactment conflicts with respect for individual freedom. To enact a social minimum, a government must typically coercively tax and transfer resources and, in the view of some thinkers, this coercion is inherently objectionable. We shall consider two versions of this objection here. The first appeals to freedom understood as the absence of intentional coercion. The second appeals to the libertarian principle of self-ownership that we discussed above (see sections  2.2  and  2.3).