“One Voluntaryist’s Perspective” is an original column appearing sporadically, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. We live in a world of scarcity. There is a seemingly infinite amount of demand for a seemingly finite amount of resources. The same resource can’t be used at the same time by different users. If it could,…
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No Hitting! – Full Book
No Hitting! A Short Guide on Why Spanking is Unnecessary by Skyler J. Collins, Published 2015 Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Paperback ($6) and other digital formats found here. Preface Here it is, my third published work and second written entirely by myself. Everything Voluntary: From Politics to Parenting was an anthology I…
Chapter 6 – Divine Mandate
Table of ContentsPrevious – Chapter 5, Respect and Obedience Chapter 6 – Divine Mandate Many religious people, Christian and not, consider the practice of spanking to be divinely mandated. They’ll quote scriptures or religious leaders in the attempt to support that belief. If you believe without a doubt that spanking is required by your god,…
Chapter 5 – Respect and Obedience
Table of ContentsPrevious – Chapter 4, Discipline and Toughness Chapter 5 – Respect and Obedience Raise your hand if you want respectful and obedient children. What a magical place it would be if our children were to obey our every command and never show even a hint of disrespect toward us! On second thought, while…
Chapter 4 – Discipline and Toughness
Table of ContentsPrevious – Chapter 3, Hurting Themselves or Others Chapter 4 – Discipline and Toughness It is said that we live in a cruel and heartless world. To send our children out into that cruel world as innocent, fluffy bunnies would be like pulling the trigger of the gun pressed against their temples ourselves.…
Chapter 3 – Hurting Themselves or Others
Table of ContentsPrevious – Chapter 2, Preventing Misbehavior Chapter 3 – Hurting Themselves or Others It might seem logical to cause a child pain in order to teach him what pain feels like, so that he’ll refrain from hurting himself or others. Unfortunately, when a caretaker intentionally hurts his child, he’s doing far more than…
An Attempt at a Universal Ethic V: Integrating Alternatives
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. An Attempt at a Universal Ethic I: Introduction An Attempt at a Universal Ethic II: Subjective Identification An Attempt at a…
On Negotiation
Negotiation seems to me to be the greatest tool ever invented for the creation and maintenance of peaceful association. While engaged in negotiation, each party necessarily affords every other party certain considerations, which include: respect, equality, and justice. If these concepts are of value to you, then the use of negotiation should pattern your every…
The Fallacy Fallacy
Nobody asked but … We might even call this fallacy the Facebook Fallacy. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. One will frequently see another person post in a thread on Facebook, “That’s an ‘Appeal to Authority!’” or a citation of another logic fallacy. So what? An appeal to authority in form is not necessarily…
On Anarchism
In my opinion, anarchism is the philosophy of non-aggression. Aggression is an uninvited boundary crossing, a trespass. Rulers, by definition, are initiators of aggression. They trespass on the bodies and property of those they rule. Hence, anarchism, as the philosophy of “without rulers”, is the philosophy of non-aggression. The initiation of aggression is incompatible with…