“Toward Freedom” is an Everything-Voluntary.com series sharing personal stories about the journey toward freedom. Archived stories can be found here. Submit your story to the editor. Originally published in I Chose Liberty: Autobiographies of Contemporary Libertarians. I was always an individualist, probably because I spent my childhood and adolescent years playing competitive sports. I grew up…
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Crime and the Voluntaryist
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 primary means to solving problems for the voluntaryist are always nonviolent and peaceful. Persuasion, education, protest, boycotts, nonviolent…
Button Pushing and the Radical Libertarian
Post by Skyler J. Collins. Originally written August 2011. Since I once claimed to be a radical libertarian, the question presents itself, “What is a radical libertarian?” Though I’ll give my own thoughts on the question, I could not answer this any better than one of the greatest of radical libertarians, Murray Rothbard: The true…
Voluntary Marriage
A US federal appeals court ruled the Defense of Marriage Act unconsitutional. Big deal! I rule the entire federal government unethical and immoral. The state has no business existing; therefore, it has no business licensing or regulating marriage. And therein lies the first step. Get the state, at all levels, out of the marriage business.…
Polygamy in Canada
It looks like the British Columbia Supreme Court will be ruling on the legality of polygamy. Of course, voluntaryism means any relation based on the mutual consent of all parties should be legal and lawful. This includes plural marriage. That’s not to say that what’s happened among the Warren Jeffs group should be legal. As…