One of the first steps toward wisdom, it is said, is calling things by their real name. Weapons of Mass Destruction are necessarily destructive toward criminally-innocent people and their property, because they can’t be pinpointed. Therefore, anytime, say, an atomic or nuclear bomb is used, the result is the intentional killing of innocent people and…
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A Simple Request
In my experience the primary reason why individuals reject libertarian philosophy is because they are unwilling to tolerate the notion that free people may engage in activity of which they don’t approve. They imagine that the world would be “better” without gambling, alcohol, drugs, pornography, prostitution, violent video games, guns, knives, single-parent households, trans fats,…
Episode 004 – From 2013, To 2014 (1h54m)
Episode 004 takes a look back at 2013 both personally for Skyler and Phil and at the outer world, and looks forward to 2014 and what it might mean for liberty. Listen to Episode 004 (1h54m, mp3, 96kbps)Show Notes 1984, Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, The Sword of TruthSkyler’s Column, “Liberty, Freedom, and Power“Skyler’s Column,…
Top Winnie, Around Town, The Ring
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. In this…
Iranian Nuclear Inspections
Nobody asked but … Iran is talking about agreeing to undergo international nuclear inspections? Really? When did they stop beating their wives? The problem here is that such an agreement is not worth the paper it is written on, rather it has vast negative costs. Let’s review how the UN supervised inspections of Iraq worked. …
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…
Opinions, Treaty of Versailles, the Manhattan Project
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. Last time,…
The “Nuclear Option”?
Last week, American-Jewish billionaire Sheldon Adelson suggested that the US military should drop a nuclear bomb in the middle of the Iranian desert in order to show Iran that they mean business. He further suggested that the next bomb be dropped on Tehran if Iran refuses to comply with US demands. Now I understand that…
On Nuclear Proliferation
A group of people with a stockpile of nuclear weapons (and other weapons of mass destruction, no doubt) has not the moral authority to dictate to other groups of people about possessing nuclear weapons. I don’t know if the small group of people known as the “government of Iran” seeks to create nuclear weapons or…
The Primal Insight: A Question of Needs
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. Two weeks ago in “Anti-Human Memes and Institutions,” I analyzed a number of cultural memes and institutions under the insight of…