Send him mail. “One Voluntaryist’s Perspective” is an original column appearing most Mondays at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. Most understand that criminals, like thieves, rapists, and murderers, are, among other things, risks to be mitigated. If we have an…
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Lying, Cheating, Stealing…
Recently, Realfarmacy.com ran an article by Mike Adams (the Health Ranger of NaturalNews.com fame) under “Naked Juice Class Action Settlement Announced” entitled “Here’s how to claim $45 from PepsiCo even without proof of purchase.” At the heart of the suite is Naked Juice’s fraudulent claim that the brand contained no GMO, while the suite claims…
Re: On Collectives II
Kilgore, though no one is held accountable, a certain individual or some certain individuals are still accountable for the actions taken. If a committee decided the course of action to be taken by their underlings, then those who favored the course and those who performed the actions are the ones accountable for the outcome. Skyler.
Re: On Collectives
Skyler, certainly specific individuals presume to take actions on behalf of the collective — if such actual and presumed delegation were not matters of course, there would cease to be collectives. But there is an inner collective in any state which is the oligarchy. The oligarchy chooses who will do the deeds for the oligarchy. …
On Collectives
“Countries,” “nations,” “governments,” “businesses,” as collectives, cannot perform actions. Only individuals can perform actions. When a government is collecting taxes, what is actually happening is certain individuals are demanding that other certain individuals pay them their “dues” or else either they are other certain individuals will use force to either extract payment or cage the…
Iranian Nuclear Inspections
Nobody asked but … Iran is talking about agreeing to undergo international nuclear inspections? Really? When did they stop beating their wives? The problem here is that such an agreement is not worth the paper it is written on, rather it has vast negative costs. Let’s review how the UN supervised inspections of Iraq worked. …
Then Came The Internet…
Send her mail. “Love Perspective” is an original column appearing every other Thursday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Serenity. Serenity is the mother of 4 boys and both a recovering mainstream parent and statist. She seeks to share what she has learned along her journey to voluntaryism, radical unschooling, and living a counter-culture lifestyle. Archived columns can…
A Realistically Optimistic Scenario for the Future
1. The exponential development of the global Internet culture, intensifying global migration processes, and the rapid development of communication and transaction technologies will jointly result – sooner than most would anticipate – in the dissolution and eventual disappearance of the presently dominant nationalistic, “patriotic”, and other worldviews based on morally arbitrary, tribal divisions. 2. The…
Re: Non-violence Against Government
I certainly appreciate the concept of non-violence and agree that many (and likely most) situations can be resolved in this matter, but (and I assume you will agree) there are some situations in which swift and violent action is the only way to prevent the innocent from being harmed. Examples of such scenarios include home…
Re: Violence Against Government
Parrish, my ponderings recall what I wrote yesterday for “Two Cents”: There’s a scene in the third book where Katniss defends the members of her Capitol prep team (make-up, wardrobe) to Gale, who remarks to the effect that they disgust him as residents of the Capitol who love the [Hunger] Games. She tells him that…