Guest post by Brian Lobb. What is a “free society”? Some people think that having economic freedom while controlling others socially is freedom. On the opposite side, certain folks think that having social freedom while controlling their neighbors’ pocketbook is freedom. Neither stance is freedom when you really break it down. To have a truly…
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Selected content picked by the editor of Everything-Voluntary.com.
Cannabis to the Rescue
If everyone approached everyone else on a basis of mutual consent, then we wouldn’t have laws that would have kept this person a lifetime patient of the medical-industrial complex. Down with drug laws. They are a violation of our rights, and often times sentence people to a lifetime of misery. Spread this story far and…
Permissive Parenting?
Written by Skyler Collins. Advocates for peaceful, nonviolent parenting, those who don’t use punishments in disciplining their children, are often derided as “permissive”, as if the parenting spectrum stretches between the two. Nothing could be further from the truth. Permissive parenting is as much non-parenting as punishment parenting is. Both neglect the needs of the…
Parents as the State
Written by Skyler J. Collins. Parents have a unique responsibility. They have the power to create life, and then the duty to protect it and raise it into a functioning adult. But can we say that this life that they create is theirs in the sense of materialistic ownership? I don’t think we can. If…
False Dichotomies Abound, Politics and Education
The typical Left vs. Right political spectrum is a false dichotomy. Both the political Left and Right use force to mold people in society against their will. Donald Boudreaux analyzes this and explains a better political spectrum in chapter 2 of Everything Voluntary. But politics does not have a monopoly on false dichotomies. Another one…
Voluntaryist Literature
I’ve added this big list of voluntaryist literature (including my own at the bottom) to the Voluntaryism tab under Recommended Books. Check it out!
Price: The Most Powerful Tool
Guest post by Beetle559. The most powerful tool we have as a species is the “price”. Nothing will advance society further than the recognition of the fact that we need to let prices be what prices are before we can thrive. The price is a tool, it is not an enemy that needs to be…
Peaceful Parenting Begins with Love
And what better way to plant and build the tree of love than by following this list of habits to strengthen your relationship with your children? I’d say I’m measuring up pretty well considering I work 70 hours a week. If I can do it, so can you. Your children deserve it.
War, War, & More War
Via the 10th Amendment center, here’s a great essay on the many and dangerous wars that government (almost everywhere and at every level) is waging against it’s supposed masters, “the people.” These wars are real and they are deadly. Let’s end them all.
What it Means to be an Anarcho-Capitalist
Guest post by Stephan Kinsella. Originally published at LewRockwell.com, January 20th, 2004. Butler Shaffer’s recent LRC article, What is Anarchy?, prompted discussion on the Reason blog and inspired me to set down a few ideas I’ve also had along these lines. Libertarian opponents of anarchy are attacking a straw man. Their arguments are usually utilitarian…