One might object to the claim that threatening to shoot someone if they don’t give up their wallet is an act of coercion because the act of parting with one’s wallet is a voluntary choice. I think that’s true, as far as it goes, but that’s not what makes the threat coercive. What makes the…
Tag: persuasion
More on Bullies
Nobody asked but … I couldn’t agree with you more, Skyler, in your blog “On Bullycide.” And the ultimate example of bullying is presented by the state. Bullying is in the nature of the state. And the most egregious bullying segments of the bullying state are the justice system and the education system, both of…
On Forced Chemotherapy
What if your daughter were sick and so-called “experts” were telling you that she needed to drink cyanide, but you understood cyanide to be poison, and these experts are foreign to you and your way of life? You don’t know them, their credentials, how or why anyone considers them experts, and they’re telling you that…
There Will Be No Victorious State
Editor’s Pick. Written by Alex Knight. One of the most absurd characteristics of democracy to me is the unspoken yet obviously present belief on the part of all active participants that ultimately, one day, through enough intellectual persuasion – or even underhanded political tactics so often openly engaged in – a single ideology will prevail,…
What Would I Do?
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. What would I do, if I lived in a free society, and my neighbor decided to operate a meth lab?…
Church and State, Beside the Point
Editor’s Pick. Written by Michael Rozeff. Only because people are forced to live under territorial monopolists is the separation of church from that monopolist an issue of any substance, because then people of different religious persuasions or philosophical beliefs vie for their preferred state and accompanying religious trappings. Read the full thing at LewRockwell.com »
Voluntaryism: One Creed to Unite Them All
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 voluntary principle, that relations should be voluntary, or not at all, separates voluntaryism from other political philosophies in…
The Methods of Nonviolent Action
Written by Gene Sharp, as published at PeaceMagazine.org. The Methods of Nonviolent Protest and Persuasion FORMAL STATEMENTS Public speeches Letters of opposition or support Declarations by organizations and institutions Signed public declarations Declarations of indictment and intention Group or mass petitions COMMUNICATIONS WITH A WIDER AUDIENCE Slogans, caricatures, and symbols Banners, posters, and displayed communications…
My Reasons For Voluntaryism
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. Last week, I discussed my values as a voluntaryist and how they guided my behavior as both a member…
Voluntaryism as a System of Values
Send him mail. “One Improved Unit” 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. OIU-only RSS feed available here. I will own this interpretation, but I think that all voluntaryism really comes down to is a system of…