Guest post by Spencer Morgan. What is the “Plan” for Accomplishing Liberty? How Do We Get it Done? This question, posed often by those both sympathetic and hostile to full human liberty and it’s implications, is one that sadly reveals to a great degree the success of our societal pro-government conditioning. Even after the realization…
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Where Do Rights Come From?
Your rights don’t come from wrtings. Guest post by Spencer Morgan. One of the recurring confusions that I encounter in discussions about liberty is the idea of rights. There is probably not a single philosophical issue around which more confusion gestates, both among advocates of individual rights and their opponents. So where do our rights…
How Can Free Markets Guarantee Freedom?
Guest post by Spencer Morgan. How Can Free Markets Guarantee Freedom in the Absence of a Strong Central Power? Freedom can’t guarantee anything. It’s not a top-down system or a mechanism that we can evaluate by a comparison to the various models of centralized control. By definition, it is the absence of that control. The…
How Can a Free Market Provide What the State is Doing Now?
Guest post by Spencer Morgan. It’s a trap! The question “show me how the free market will do this” is usually just a desperate attempt to create a diversion from the moral issue surrounding the use of force, and it is most likely not being presented to you by a sincere person likely to accept…
Should Voluntaryists Vote?
Guest post by Spencer Morgan. Earlier this week, I was asked a question by a local libertarian who is taking a close look at the philosophy of voluntaryism. His question as follows: “Should voluntaryists vote? The issue, as I see it, is that on the one hand, voting could be construed as a tacit recognition…