Carl Watner responds: Basically, I agree with you. Really, property is only secure as long as others respect it. There is a nice quote in Rose Wilder Lane’s The Discovery of Freedom. She writes “The only safeguards of property seem to [be] possession of the property, individual honesty, and public opinion. Cabins were never locked…
Category: Items of Note
The Source of Property?
Curt Doolittle writes that the source of property is violence. But is it? Is property obtained through violence toward others? It doesn’t seem that using one’s labor to appropriate some thing (movable or immovable), thereby creating an “objective link” with said thing is an act of violence toward other human beings. Other human beings may…
Homeschooling vs. Unschooling
Libertarians are quick to defend the “rights” of homeschooling parents against violations by the state. I can only half-heartedly get behind such a cause. Yes, the state should get out of the way of parents, but just as important, maybe even more important, is that parents should get out of the way of their children.…
Everything Voluntary Book Review
Alex Knight of Strike-The-Root.com reviews Everything Voluntary: While there are certainly many superb libertarian/voluntaryist anthologies in publication, both past and present, most tend to be unitopical in nature. This is why Everything Voluntary: From Politics to Parenting, a 2012 offering from editor Skyler J. Collins, is not only instantly distinguishable, but perhaps of broader utilitarian…
Official Discussion Group
Introducing the official discussion group for EVC: Voluntaryist Unschoolers Please join and share! Skyler.
New Topic Pages Content
I’ve changed the content on the topic pages (top of the site). Now, each topic will feature an introductory excerpt to each chapter in Everything Voluntary, the book I published last year. I’m still undecided on how to approach the right-side content, but for now I’ve removed the redundant chapter links. Skyler.
Another New Columnist
Thursday will feature an inaugural column by voluntaryist and unschooler, Serenity. Stay tuned! Skyler.
New Columnist
Tomorrow will feature the inaugural column of EVC’s newest columnist, Angel Ethell! You can find her on her Facebook page here. Skyler.
Re: What Would I Do?
Kyle Marmann made my slap my forehead with this comment on my latest column: First things first. In a free society, meth would be made by professionals in a controlled environment. The finished product would most certainly be cheap & readily available on the open market thus no one would have incentive to make it…
Re: Self-Ownership as Self-Determination
Spencer Morgan writes: As for the “is/ought” problem… I’ve always had a hard time seeing where the problem is, unless we are somehow open to the idea of death as being a moral goal, and life being an immoral goal. This is where Rand’s justification (relying on Aristotle somewhat) comes into play. The “ought” becomes…