Editor’s Pick. Written by Foo Quuxman. Much has been said about the problems of intellectual property here and elsewhere which I won’t go into today, however there is one implication of IP that I have not noticed in any of the writings of the anti-IP thinkers Property is defined as the exclusive right to possess…
Tag: property
Withdraw Your Consent From the State
Editor’s Pick. Written by Michael S. Rozeff. Withdrawing consent to the state means more than this innocuous phrase may suggest. To withdraw consent is far-reaching. It means a divorce from the state insofar as this is possible. It means having no loyalty to the state, seeing the state as fundamentally unfair and a source of…
The Worst Holiday of the Year
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. Tomorrow, September 17th, is Constitution Day in the United States. Many will either gather to or independently pay homage to the…
Re: The Source of Property?
Carl Watner responds: Basically, I agree with you. Really, property is only secure as long as others respect it. There is a nice quote in Rose Wilder Lane’s The Discovery of Freedom. She writes “The only safeguards of property seem to [be] possession of the property, individual honesty, and public opinion. Cabins were never locked…
Bringing Back the Family Unit
Send him mail. “Insight for the Young and Unrestrained” is an original column appearing every Thursday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Gregory V. Diehl. Gregory is a writer, musician, educator, and coach for young people at EnabledYouth.com. Archived columns can be found here. IYU-only RSS feed available here. Throughout human history, the family has been the basic…
The Source of Property?
Curt Doolittle writes that the source of property is violence. But is it? Is property obtained through violence toward others? It doesn’t seem that using one’s labor to appropriate some thing (movable or immovable), thereby creating an “objective link” with said thing is an act of violence toward other human beings. Other human beings may…
Politicians Are Not the Only Culprits
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…
Anti-Human Memes and Institutions
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. Perhaps one way to begin a conversation on human ethics is to start at the beginning of humanity. Homo sapien, our…
A Living Testament of My Convictions
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. In my last column of this series, I shared my family culture and its evolution over the last two years.…
NCAA Football and the Attack on Self-Ownership
Send him mail. “The Self Owner” is an original column appearing every Wednesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Spencer W. Morgan. Spencer is a husband and father, and has studied History and Philosophy at the University of Utah. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. Normally my column is devoted to deeper philosophy…