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. Having recently written columns explaining both the philosophy of voluntaryism and the voluntary principle on which its based, I thought it…
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In Defense of Rational Prejudice
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. Many a modern popular commentator and political pundit rail against prejudice. They say that that we shouldn’t judge others on the…
Check Your Privilege
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. The “Check Your Privilege” meme originated in 2006, but was brought before the libertarian community in early 2014 by FEE and…
Control and Rebellion
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. “Teenage rebellion” is a seemingly natural phase of a young human’s life. But is it really? What about political rebellion? Is…
Intolerance and Voluntaryism
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. There’s a growing trend among libertarians to distance the movement from those whose intolerance of others are based on race, gender,…
The Values of a Voluntaryist
Send him mail. This article combines two columns written by the editor, Skyler J. Collins, in March 2013. Those columns are “My Reasons for Voluntaryism” and “Voluntaryism as a System of Values“. As an individual, I speak only for myself. Looking over the last few years, I can see that what has been the primary…
Ender’s Game, Logic Fallacy, Waco
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. Here goes…
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.
What If, Vicarious Connectivity, More About Information
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 past…
10 Reasons Why Libertarianism is the Way of the Future
1. It is the only social philosophy that places the highest value on the only common characteristic of all thinking beings – individual liberty. 2. It is the only social philosophy that takes individual rights seriously, consistently refusing to sacrifice them in the name of collective moral and legal fictions. 3. It is the only…