Send him mail. This article combines two columns written by the editor, Skyler J. Collins, in March 2013. Those columns are “My Reasons for Voluntaryism” and “Voluntaryism as a System of Values“. As an individual, I speak only for myself. Looking over the last few years, I can see that what has been the primary…
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The Case for Voluntary Private Cooperation
Editor’s Pick. Written by Michael Munger. When I tell Duke freshmen my version of the argument for liberty, they often scoff, “If this is right, how come I’ve never heard it before?” I try to be conciliatory. I offer the kids time to go text their parents. They need to sue those elite private high…
Remaining Unconvinced
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 a January 2014 column titled “Down with Conviction!” I argued that if one is committed to the pursuit of…
On Rights
The concept of “rights” can mean different things to different people, but what does it mean etymologically? Right comes from riht (West Saxon) or reht (Anglican), and has several meanings. In the context of voluntaryism, it means “what someone deserves; a just claim, what is due; correctness, truth; a legal entitlement, a privilege,”. It seems…
Do You Speak a Foreign Language?
I’m looking for foreign language speakers (except Spanish) to help me with some translating here at EVC. If you’ve been on the sidelines and want to contribute a little time to the cause of voluntaryism, peaceful parenting, and radical unschooling, please let me know. Respond as a comment or email everythingvoluntary at gmail dot com.…
A Lesson in Semantics
I attended government run schools, but I don’t remember much of specifics that I learned there. However one particular lesson has stayed with me very vividly since I learned it almost 30 years ago. We were doing a unit on semantics – the study of meaning in language. The teacher stood in the front of…
Re: A Modest Evaluation
Nobody asked but … Let us be sure that we understand how these observations are verifications of natural law, not as statists would have us believe, demonstrations of how voluntaryism does not work. Both Detroit and Somalia are wreckage left by the failures of statism. Voluntaryism works everywhere that statism does not intervene. People are…
Voluntaryism Can’t Work
Nobody asked but … When I tell others that I am a voluntaryist, they often ask for me to explain how it works. They’re waiting to pounce on the first opening that let’s them expound on how it won’t work. This is where the greatest difficulty lies in a meaningful discussion between a voluntaryist and…
Somalia
Nobody asked but … Statists often cherry-pick Somalia as proof that statism works or that voluntaryist doesn’t. What are the territories of the war lords if not states? Obama is a warlord. Putin is a warlord. Neither honors his agreements, neither obeys his own laws. We already live in vastly expanded and severely more complex…
Religion 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. What is the relationship between voluntaryism, the philosophy based on the voluntary principle, that all human relations should happen voluntarily, or…