Send him mail. “Food for Thought” is an original bi-weekly 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. Archived columns can be found here. FFT-only RSS feed available here.…
Tag: ethics
What Are Ethics Anyway?
Editor’s Pick. Written by Justin Nafziger. I have observed that people confuse various adjacent terms and ideas as equivalent. Belief and conviction for example, while they may overlap are not one and the same. Another oft misconstrued association is mixing morality, integrity and ethics. To be sure, they do interact heavily, but one and the…
Liberty as the Application of Self-Ownership
Send him mail. “The Self Owner” is an original weekly column appearing every Tuesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Spencer W. Morgan. Spencer is a husband and father, and has studied History and Philosophy at the University of Utah. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. Last week we discovered that defining liberty…
Voluntaryism: One Creed to Unite Them All
Send him mail. “One Voluntaryist’s Perspective” is an original bi-weekly column appearing every other Monday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. The voluntary principle, that relations should be voluntary, or not at all, separates voluntaryism from other political philosophies in…
Cypriots and the President’s Ability to Kill
Send him mail. “One Voluntaryist’s Perspective” is an original bi-weekly column appearing every other Monday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. There are so many concepts and ideas swirling in my head this week, but nothing with enough concreteness to…
Spencer Morgan Joins EVC!
Spencer Morgan has joined EVC as a weekly columnist. EVC published the following essays by Spencer in the past: Should Voluntaryists Vote? – December 2011How Can a Free Market Provide What the State is Doing Now? – December 2011How Can Free Markets Guarantee Freedom? – December 2011Where Do Rights Come From? – December 2011How Do…
Statism, Morality and Children
Written by The Perturbed Patriot for NoMoreCages.com. Children will be taught that they cannot steal, kill, rape, damage property or infringe on other people’s freedoms, but will also be taught that government not only can, but should do precisely these things to people in the interest of the public good. How convenient is that? In…
My Road to Liberty Went Through Economics
Send him mail. “One Improved Unit” is an original bi-weekly column appearing every other Monday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OIU-only RSS feed available here. I understand that many libertarians, including Stefan Molyneux, argue that ethical and moral arguments for liberty are superior to…
My Reasons For Voluntaryism
Send him mail. “One Voluntaryist’s Perspective” is an original bi-weekly column appearing every other Monday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. Last week, I discussed my values as a voluntaryist and how they guided my behavior as both a member…
What’s Immoral for the Private Goose Is Moral for the Government Gander?
Written by Robert Higgs for Independent.org. Why do so many people consider certain actions to be immoral if taken by private persons, but not immoral—perhaps even morally praiseworthy—if taken by government officials? One possibility is that people have become accustomed to government officials’ taking certain actions (e.g., getting income by insisting that people either hand…