Nobody asked but … I don’t think there is any word, phrase, sentence, paragraph, clause, or provision in the U. S. Constitution which asks or allows the government to circumscribe the peaceful movement of peaceful travelers. AmIright? Kilgore
Category: Nobody Asked, But
Shopping
Nobody asked but … If your life was the equivalent of a trip to the supermarket, voting would be like choosing a shopping cart. The best you could hope for would be a half-way workable set of wheels, without too much suspect trash in the bottom of the basket. Kilgore
Regulating the Internet
Nobody asked but … One of my students, today, was clearly upset because he had heard on the radio that POTUS was seeking to hand the reins of the Internet over to the FCC, Federal Communication Commission. I am sure that politicians see that as feasible, but the fact is that “the Internet” is merely…
Rude Awakening
Nobody asked but … Statists fear that some morning they may wake up in a cold, dreary world, an utopian anarchia like the worlds in The Walking Dead, or Falling Skies, or The Last Ship. Not to fear. Anarchy in a society would at best be a flash in a pan. In fact, all of…
Election Results
Nobody asked but … Every commentator who has any credibility left for a voluntaryist has said literally the same thing. To wit — congratulations, a whole 1/3rd of you voted, congratulations, in very, very rare instances did a winning candidate garner even 20% of the American vote, congratulations, you provided cable news with their periodic…
Anxiety Voluntaryist-Style II
Nobody asked but … The earlier post on this topic may be a legitimate use of Russell’s Teapot. In tomorrow’s column, Verbal Vol will explore the logic fallacy known as Russell’s Teapot in some quarters. I have suggested that we at least consider that this voting question may be an appropriate exception to the illogic. …
Anxiety Voluntaryist-Style
Nobody asked but … I am anxious to see a single example of voting proving to be a solution to any problem. Kilgore
Popular Impression
Nobody asked but … I am watching a vintage film of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado, and all of a sudden I encountered in the script the most wonderful exchange — Nanki-Poo: Who says twenty-four hours make a day?Pitti-Sing: There’s a popular impression to that effect. What a wit W. S. Gilbert was! This explains…
Lifeboat Scenaria
Nobody asked but … Voluntaryism is really pretty simple. Let me quote Skyler’s latest column, The Ethics of Voluntaryism — “We who value morality and doing the right thing have an obligation – self-imposed – to find a philosophy compatible with moral living. Voluntaryism is that philosophy.” Here is an answer for those who want…
Human Nature Has a Past, Present, and Future
Nobody asked but … I will grant you that homo sapiens as currently constituted is an unambitious evolutionary experiment in higher order thinking hampered by lower order instinct. The truth that human nature is natural, however, is incomplete. It is also natural to optimize adaptation. It is also natural to aspire to a higher level.…