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. Secession can take many different forms and involve different quantities of people, but is secession always compatible with voluntaryism? And more,…
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Humanity Win
According to Russia Today, instead of slaughtering hundreds of innocent people, Ukrainian soldiers surrendered when they realized who they were confronting were their brothers and sisters, not the enemy. This is a win for humanity, for civil disobedience, for anti-just-following-orders, and for individualism. Bravo Ukrainian soldiers. May your example reach soldiers and people everywhere. Skyler.
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…
March Madness, Natural Law and Principle, Stepwise Refinement
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 the…
On Secession
As much as I love the idea of secession, of people in a given territory breaking political ties with the larger territorial state, there is one major drawback: secession dissenters within the seceding territory being forced to break ties with the old state and live under the new state. Many “loyalists” were murdered and/or driven…
Rules vs. Principles
Wrote Ben Lovejoy: I split hairs about rules and principles because I see and have lived with the differences, and I believe they represent two opposing forces in a home and school environment. Principles are internal; rules, external. We enforce principles for ourselves, while others force rules upon us. Principles are something people stand for…
Conservatives Never Tell It Like It Is
Send him mail. “Food for Thought” is an original column appearing every other Tuesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Norman Imberman. Norman is a retired podiatrist who loves playing piano, writing music, lawn bowling, bridge, reading, classical music, going to movies, plays, concerts and traveling. He is not a member of any social network, nor does he…
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…
Against Sovereign Immunity
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. Statists are quick to defend the state on the grounds that it’s nothing more than collective decision-making, akin to a group…
Words Poorly Used #31 — The Social Contract
“The Social Contract” as shopped by the collectivist authoritarians (aka the state) is the pseudo agreement by which police shoot our dogs, while we involuntarily allow them a get-out-of-jail-free card. Proponents of this implicit order have nullified the voluntary nature of contracts, and falsely represented their scheme as the only one which will protect us…