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. Philosophy is, etymologically, the “love of wisdom”. One of the best ways I’ve read to define wisdom is this saying, “Knowledge…
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The Voluntary Principle
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. As often as I reference the voluntary principle, the centerpiece of voluntaryism, you’d think I’d have written more on it specifically.…
Two Realities
Send him mail. “Food for Thought” is an original column appearing every other Tuesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Norman Imberman. Norman is a retired podiatrist who loves playing piano, writing music, lawn bowling, bridge, reading, classical music, going to movies, plays, concerts and traveling. He is not a member of any social network, nor does he…
Episode 024 – A Conversation on “Everything Voluntary” (1h52m)
Episode 024 is a conversation on the origin and meaning of the phrase “everything voluntary”. Listen to Episode 024 (1h52m, mp3, 96kbps)Show Notes Everything-Voluntary.com, “About“Skyler Collins, “Origin of Everything-Voluntary“Skyler Collins, Everything Voluntary: From Politics to ParentingEVC Podcast, Episode 001 – Skyler’s JourneyEVC Podcast, Episode 003 – Golden Rule EthicsEVC Podcast, Episode 005 – Consent of…
John Rawls and The Veil of Ignorance
Send him mail. “Food for Thought” is an original column appearing every other Tuesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Norman Imberman. Norman is a retired podiatrist who loves playing piano, writing music, lawn bowling, bridge, reading, classical music, going to movies, plays, concerts and traveling. He is not a member of any social network, nor does he…
The Tardigrade, Time Bandits, Another Fallacy
Send him mail. “Finding the Challenges” is an original column appearing every other Wednesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Verbal Vol. Verbal is a software engineer, college professor, corporate information officer, life long student, farmer, libertarian, literarian, student of computer science and self-ordering phenomena. Archived columns can be found here. FTC-only RSS feed available here. This column…
Against Sovereign Immunity
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. Statists are quick to defend the state on the grounds that it’s nothing more than collective decision-making, akin to a group…
Somalia
Nobody asked but … Statists often cherry-pick Somalia as proof that statism works or that voluntaryist doesn’t. What are the territories of the war lords if not states? Obama is a warlord. Putin is a warlord. Neither honors his agreements, neither obeys his own laws. We already live in vastly expanded and severely more complex…
We Can Oppose Bigotry without the Politicians
Should the government coercively sanction business owners who, out of apparent religious conviction, refuse to serve particular customers? While such behavior is repugnant, the refusal to serve someone because of his or her race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation is nevertheless an exercise of self-ownership and freedom of nonassociation.
The Arguments for Spanking
Editor’s Pick. Written by fk. The subject of spanking is no-no topic for polite conversation, and has, in general, been put with many other subjects in the “do what’s best for you” category of aesthetic preference. But I don’t think it really ought to be considered merely an aesthetic preference. On its face, it seems…