When libertarians argue that because we live in a statist society we should advocate for the state to perform functions that private owners would in a stateless society – things like border control and crime prevention – what they are in essence advocating is the growth or enlargement of the state apparatus. There is absolutely…
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On Closed-Border Libertarians
Closed-border libertarians, such as Lew Rockwell and Hans Hoppe are in essence arguing that because the State can’t or won’t keep the loot its stolen out of the hands of immigrants, we should call on the State to send its murderous goons to secure its imaginary border. Further, such a call is a de facto…
Intolerance for Friction
Nobody asked but … I share an informed suspicion of the open market. Everything has friction. Statist offers of solution are offerings in the open market of ideas, also having frictions. To me, the crippling friction of government is the combined necessities of making it mandatory, not voluntary, making it arbitrarily applicable in a controlled…
Innumeracy, Territorialism, Organized Lying
Send him mail. “Finding the Challenges” is an original column appearing every other Thursday 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, pre-TSA world traveler, domestic traveler. Archived columns can be found here. FTC-only RSS…
Canal vs. Braided Stream: Evolution over Structure
Guest column by zeeman stark. zeeman stark is the pen name for a freethinker who currently lives near a large freshwater lake with the Ute Indian eponym. zeeman disdains labels but accepts a no-recipe adjective soup in describing his philosophy: humanitarian, libertine, polymath, voluntary. zeeman has a penis indeed, peach-colored epidermis, stinky feet, and remembers…
The Control of Nature, Rothbard on Human Nature, Appeal to Common Belief
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, pre-TSA world traveler, domestic traveler. Archived columns can be found here. FTC-only RSS…
David Hume, Spooner Quote #19, Context
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The Voluntaryist Vision
Send him mail. “One Voluntaryist’s Perspective” is an original column appearing sporadically at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. What does the voluntaryist see when his values and principles have been realized in larger society? What does the voluntaryist paradise look…
Might Makes Rights
Send him mail. “One Voluntaryist’s Perspective” is an original column appearing sporadically at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. All rights are property rights, so says libertarian philosopher Murray Rothbard. And property rights are the result of the use of either…
Free Will #2, Rothbard, Movie View: Escape Artist
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. This has…