Enviar correo. Escrito por Skyler J. Collins en Septiembre 2013. Traducido por Julieta P. Collins, del original en Inglés, que se encuentra aquí. Obras publicadas de Julieta se puede encontrar aquí. Creo que el mayor impacto que los voluntaristas pueden hacer es dentro de las paredes de nuestros hogares, entre las relaciones con nuestros cónyuges…
Tag: honor
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…
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…
Re: Personal Oaths
Nobody asked but … I have just read Skyler‘s blog post and Parrish‘s, in quick succession. My head nearly exploded! Who in their right mind commits to an oath of any kind to a set of institutions gone so clearly awry as our nation-state’s? It mocks the serious discussion of oaths and justice. What is…
On Honor and Edward Snowden II
After some more thinking and reading on the topic of honor, I think it would be accurate to say that honor is relative. Consider an honor code among thieves, or pirates. In my example, on the one hand, Edward Snowden acted dishonorably by running away from his (assuming) promise to be punished if he ever…
Re: Honor and Snowden
Nobody asked but … Honor is a dangerous idea to me. To think for a moment that Edward Snowden might have entertained for a second the idea of behaving honorably due to a bogus contract with murderous bureaucrats makes my skin crawl. A contractor to the people has honor due only to the people, not…
On Honor and Edward Snowden
Honor, to me, is keeping your promises and staying true to your principles. Honor does not seem to be a very important part of the lives of Westerners. I only ever heard the term growing up in movies and, more recently, in book series like John Carter, Narnia, and the Lord of the Rings. If…
Mandela
Nobody asked but … Skyler was correct when he posted that there are no gods on the Earth, but sometimes there are exceedingly unique persons. Nelson Mandela was one of those. Certainly he was a statist (in the end), but he was also certainly a voluntaryist. In fact, he was too complex to categorize. To…
War is Hell
There is no honor in the shedding of innocent blood — it’s birthplace or proximity to truly guilty individuals notwithstanding. Those who engaged in the carpet bombing of cities (including the intentional targeting of civilian neighborhoods), the use of nuclear weapons, indiscriminate chemical warfare, the invading and occupying of homes and villages, and the murdering…
Patriotism, the Anti-Nationalism
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. “One’s country” is not synonymous with “one’s nation.” Many are confused on this point. To equate the two is to confuse…