Send her mail. “Balancing on My Toes” is an original column appearing every other Friday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Angel M. Ethell. Angel lives in the Chicagoland area with her family: sons Teen (13) and Lil G (2) along with their little sister Cassie Pie (dog), her partner Daddy G and father-in-law Grandpa G. She loves…
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Think About It
Send her mail. “Balancing on My Toes” is an original column appearing every other Friday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Angel M. Ethell. Angel lives in the Chicagoland area with her family: sons Teen (13) and Lil G (2) along with their little sister Cassie Pie (dog), her partner Daddy G and father-in-law Grandpa G. She loves…
Episode 003 – Golden Rule Ethics (1h34m)
Episode 003 is a conversation on the Golden Rule, as found throughout history at many different times and places, as a system of ethics. Listen to Episode 003 (1h34m, mp3, 96kbps)Show Notes Golden Rule Wikipedia EntryFDR “The Facts about Spanking“FDR “The Bomb in the Brain“Culture of Good Will (Social Capital)Culture of EmpathySkyler’s Column, “The Law…
Episode 002 – Phil’s Journey (1h22m)
Episode 002 looks at Phil’s journey through empathy and the non-aggression principle to peaceful parenting and radical unschooling. Listen to Episode 002 (1h22m, mp3, 96kbps)Show Notes Facebook Profile, Phillip EgerJudge Napolitano on the PATRIOT ActCulture of Empathy, Wes BertrandSilent Weapons for Quiet WarsAlex Jones, Infowars.comSteve Horwitz on Conspiracy TheoriesRon Paul, A Foreign Policy of FreedomGnostic…
On Empathy
I’ve had people who disagreed with me philosophically tell me either directly or indirectly that I must not be in a “good place” or at a “good point” in my life. What motivates this? Why do people assume that if someone they knew in the past to think one way, but now thinks differently, there…
Braveheart
Nobody asked but … Yesterday, Skyler wrote about power struggles and today I picked up on the continuing story of Scotland’s upcoming vote on whether to be independent of the UK. I would be so happy if they were to make this break toward freedom, and to continue the dissolution of the British empire. I…
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…
On the Hunger Games III
Something that this series, as well as previous ones like John Carter and Carson Napier, has taught me is the importance of extending empathy to those who have been raised to regard certain actions, say forcing people to participate in a game where they must kill everyone else to win, as not wrong. There’s a scene in…
Social Coercion, a Discussion
I thought I’d share the discussion on Facebook that led to me writing my column on social coercion, between Aaron and Steve (with minor edits and comments in brackets). It’s far more detailed than my column was and I wanted to archive it here. Skyler. Steve: “Social coercion” I define as the pressure one individual or…
On Reading Fiction (eg Harry Potter)
Nobody asked but … Skyler, your recent comments on the voluntaryist lessons from Harry Potter struck a chord. I would be much more likely to recommend the novels of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ross MacDonald, Lawrence Block, and Michael Connelly in the hardboiled genre, and Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Heinlein, Anthony Burgess, John Brunner, and Philip…