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. What is the relationship between voluntaryism, the philosophy based on the voluntary principle, that all human relations should happen voluntarily, or…
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Vigilantism and Voluntaryism
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. When you think of Batman, Spiderman, and Green Arrow, think “vigilante”. What is that? It’s Spanish for “watchman” and rose to…
On MLK and Private Action
Martin Luther King, Jr. acted as a private individual with a personal agenda. He was not a state employee implementing the state’s agenda. Whatever political beliefs the man held, one thing is clear: he saw injustice and didn’t wait for permission from anybody else before combating it. That he acted according to his own conscience,…
No Justice for Kelly Thomas
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Manuel Ramos and Jay Cicinelli, the two uniformed thugs who beat a homeless man to death, were today found not guilty of all charges. Inexplicably, the man whose life they ended is still dead, however…. How is it possible that an unarmed man ends up dead after a vicious beating, but those cretins…
On Liberty and Security
The statist is someone who favors the aggressive monopolization of the provision of law and order by whatever group of individuals is able to successfully do so. The total statist is someone who favors the aggressive monopolization of the provision of every good and service. Either statist, because they support the unjustified initiation of aggression,…
On Utopia
Utopia means, literally, “nowhere.” This idea is thrown at voluntaryists and anarchists as an argument that their vision for society could never exist. Because Utopia is and will always be “nowhere,” then the Utopians are those who champion a vision for society that can never exist. Stateless, anarchistic societies have existed before, proving their compatibility…
On Productive Communication
In Terry Goodkind’s Wizard’s First Rule, Zedd, a wizard and a mentor, asks his young friend Richard who is more dangerous, a 200 lb. thief who knows he’s not entitled to your money but wants it anyway, or a 100 lb. mother who erroneously believes you’ve stolen and hidden her baby. Richard’s answer was, correctly,…
My Journey to Voluntarism
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…
On Language
This statement is seemingly benign to the average person: “The decision may entice more states to enforce similar laws as they seek ways to generate more revenue. States lost an estimated $23 billion in 2012 as a result of not being able to collect sales tax revenue on remote sales.” When written with a proper…
Unanimous City Council Decisions
A recent article at Reason.com commented on a vote by the San Rafael City Council vote to ban smoking in one’s home. The vote was unanimous. This begs the question, if it was unanimous, why have the vote at all? If all the residents of San Rafael did not smoke in their homes, there’s no…