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. People care about justice. Even criminals care about justice when they find themselves the victim. When people feel that they’ve been wronged,…
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Immigration and Voluntaryism
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. Many hold a passionate view on immigration, by which I mean the immigration of peoples across national borders. Not so much, if…
Greatest Learning, Rothbard #1, Excluded Middle
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. Perhaps the…
Expertocracy / Idiotocracy
Nobody asked but … Carl Sagan Technology Quotes The same can be said for logic, empathy, history, philosophy, spirituality, morality, … voluntaryism. The one thing that a large part of humanity can understand is self-ownership. We all have to be confronted with it. It is inevitable from birth. The better ones of us learn the…
Episode 061 – Austin’s Journey (0h40m)
Episode 061 is an interview of Austin Gee about his journey toward voluntaryism. He talks about listening to Hazlitt and reading Tom Woods early while growing up as a Utah Republican, eventually making the leap to libertarian, anarcho-capitalist, and then finally to voluntaryist. And he’s got peaceful plans for his future family. Listen to Episode…
Episode 060 – Skyler Interviewed on the No State Project (1h19m)
Episode 060 features an interview of Skyler by Marc Stevens of the No State Project on LRN.fm. They talk about voluntaryism, evidence of jurisdiction, moral outrage and ethics, blowback, pacifism, cops, and a host of other topics. Listen to Episode 060 (1h19m, mp3, 96kbps)Show Notes Everything-Voluntary.com, “About“Skyler’s Column, “The Philosophy of Voluntaryism“Skyler’s Column, “Evidence of…
Property under Voluntaryism
“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,…
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 2 – Preventing Misbehavior
Table of ContentsPrevious – Chapter 1, Introduction Chapter 2 – Preventing Misbehavior Many caretakers justify their use of spanking and punishments as a way to prevent what they perceive as misbehavior. They believe that children won’t learn to behave properly if their misbehavior is not met with undesirable consequences. Children dislike being hit, so it’s…