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 is…
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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…
Logic Fallacies, No Regrets, Hard Winter
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 week…
On the Voluntary Principle
The difference between voluntaryism and libertarianism is the voluntary principle, that all human relations should happen voluntarily, or not at all. In other words, where libertarianism is concerned with non-aggression toward individually-owned property, voluntaryism is concerned with non-coercion toward other individuals. As Carl Watner wrote, the voluntary principle is “a means, an end, and an…
A Great Year, A Better Year
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. Last year (2013) was a good year for me. My kids got older, their parents got wiser, our family grew by…
Re: Nature of Evil
Alex, very interesting article. In his conclusion, the author writes, “The longer we cling to strong beliefs about the existence of pure evil, the more aggressive and antisocial we become.” I would say that that has very important implications for voluntaryism as it concerns parenting. I understand that spanking and other forms of involuntary discipline…
The Nature of Evil
Pursuant to this article, I’m interested in what anyone may think the implications are or might be for the advancement of Voluntaryism. As just a side comment, I vary slightly in my own definition of evil from that which appears here. I’d say it’s defined by any use of aggression against another or their property…
When Does Humpty Dumpty Begin to Fall?
Nobody asked but … When Humpty Dumpty gets up on the wall. We often theorize that communism falls when it is overwhelmed by its own weight, like a beached whale. See the Berlin Wall. But any thoroughgoing analysis will show that specific instances of communism including socialism begin to fall with the advent of an…
Action, Faith, 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. An axiom is a starting point of reasoning, or a premise. Ludwig von Mises discovered the action axiom. Paraphrased, the action…
If Libertarianism Is Such a Great System
Nobody asked but … On a podcast, We Are Libertarians, I listened to yesterday, the interviewer asked Tom Woods, “If libertarianism is such a great system, why haven’t any countries adopted it?” Tom did an excellent job of answering, because it was just a softball slow pitch for him. What I was astounded by was…