Table of ContentsPrevious – Chapter 1, Introduction Chapter 2 – Parenting Having thus defined our terms, we can begin exploring the necessary prerequisites to building a culture of liberty, and ultimately, a free society. We must start at the same place where each if us began life, the home. Our parents are first to influence…
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Chapter 1 – Introduction
Table of Contents Previous – Preface Chapter 1 – Introduction A free society, where liberty is secure, is necessarily one where you’ll find the widespread observance of the voluntary principle (all human relations should happen voluntarily, or not all).(2) Of course, not everyone is required to practice voluntaryism(3), but enough must so that society remains…
Movie View #6, Spooner #14, False Process
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Spanking is Always Unnecessary III: Hurting Themselves or Others
Send him mail. “One Improved Unit” is an original column appearing sporadically on Thursday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OIU-only RSS feed available here. Spanking is Always Unnecessary I: IntroductionSpanking is Always Unnecessary II: Preventing Misbehavior It might seem logical to cause a child…
Spanking is Always Unnecessary II: Preventing Misbehavior
Send him mail. “One Improved Unit” is an original column appearing sporadically on Thursday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OIU-only RSS feed available here. Spanking is Always Unnecessary I: Introduction Many parents justify their use of spanking and punishments as a way to prevent…
Movie: Jean Brodie, Spooner #13, Null Hypotheses
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Building a Culture of Liberty VI: Moral Outrage
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Spanking is Always Unnecessary I: Introduction
Send him mail. “One Improved Unit” is an original column appearing sporadically on Thursday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OIU-only RSS feed available here. The practice of spanking children in particular, and child punishment in general, was abandoned in my family in August of 2011.…
Euphemisms, Spooner #12, Fallacy #21
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On Children and Love
I have both experienced and witnessed a child showing affection and humility toward a parent who’s previously spanked (or punished) them. I wonder… Is this an act of genuine love? The child having come to terms with his parent’s behavior and chosen to forgive? Or… Is it an act of self-defense? An attempt by the…