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.
Tag: markets
On Self-Interest
Non-libertarians deride libertarians and free markets types as selfish and greedy because we argue that people should be free to keep the wealth they earn completely for themselves. Keeping your wealth to yourself is a personal choice aligned with the values you hold. No less aligning to the values one holds than is the life…
Outrun by Market Forces
Writes Jeffrey Tucker: Many have warned that governments will not tolerate the monetary system to be reformed by a bunch of cyberpunks and their magic internet money. There will be interventions. There will be regulations. There will be taxations. There will be attempts to control. But look back at recent history. Governments tried to stop…
On Bitcoin Acceptance and Illicit Trade
I mentioned in Episode 008 of the EVC podcast the latest big retailers to except bitcoin, Overstock.com and Tiger Direct, and how their acceptance will push along the growing snowball that is the bitcoin economy. Other than the obvious benefits to society that this news represents, there’s another side to the story that’s quite important…
A Great Year, A Better Year
Send him mail. “One Improved Unit” is an original column appearing sporadically on 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. Last year (2013) was a good year for me. My kids got older, their parents got wiser, our family grew by…
Our Trip to Spain
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. The last…
Action, Faith, 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. An axiom is a starting point of reasoning, or a premise. Ludwig von Mises discovered the action axiom. Paraphrased, the action…
Re: Assassination Politics
Alex, where to start? While I would much rather see state leaders assassinating political opponents than invading their country, thereby preventing mass murder, I have a hard to time with something that ignores due process. That being said, if one were found guilty in a private court of some crime and justice demands the perpetrator…
The Law is Mere Risk
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. Most understand that criminals, like thieves, rapists, and murderers, are, among other things, risks to be mitigated. If we have an…
Lying, Cheating, Stealing…
Recently, Realfarmacy.com ran an article by Mike Adams (the Health Ranger of NaturalNews.com fame) under “Naked Juice Class Action Settlement Announced” entitled “Here’s how to claim $45 from PepsiCo even without proof of purchase.” At the heart of the suite is Naked Juice’s fraudulent claim that the brand contained no GMO, while the suite claims…