Voluntaryism
Are you a PERSON? Are you volunteering for your enslavement?
“I sincerely believe… that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816
Isn't the de facto government guilty of domestic terrorism?
Why You are Entitled to Remedy Using a Fee Schedule
The govt. is a corporation, established in 1871 by the District of Columbia Act. The State: It’s Just an Act!
Read about the Rape of America and the Constitution for the United States.
Have you noticed that the modern State acting in a sovereign capacity wants everyone to recognize and submit to its authority? The term justice is another word appropriately used in a state or society ruled by sovereign powers, as distinguished from limited constitutional powers, just as we see indicated in the quote above. Read more.
The conquerors employed force to give effect to their
judgments and thus the legal sanction — the use of force to
maintain the social and political structure — was founded.
Customs could then be maintained only if they were recognized
and backed by the conquerors. The mingling of peoples brought
about by conquest resulted in a conflict of competing customs
which could be settled only in the court of the conqueror. When
the court rendered judgment, law was declared, established, and
sanctified.
The American Peoples Encyclopedia,
Grolier Incorp., 1968, vol. 11, p. 280, “Law”
Arguments for self-ownership
Quit Working for The Federal Corporation! It has been argued by Austrian School economist Hans-Hermann Hoppe that self-ownership is axiomatic. His reasoning is that a person contradicts himself when he argues against self-ownership. The person making this argument is caught in a “performative contradiction” because, in choosing to use persuasion instead of force to have others agree that they are not sovereign over themselves, that person implicitly grants that those who he is trying to persuade have a right to disagree.
If they have a right to disagree, then they have legitimate authority over themselves. However, it has also been noted that attempting persuasion in place of force does not necessarily acknowledge a right to disagree but may be a rational economic choice, as using force may have unfortunate consequences for the speaker as well.
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The person argues that self-ownership is an undesirable condition, and currently he is only authorized by law to argue against the status quo that allows self-ownership. Moreover, someone that argues against self-ownership does not necessarily do it in an absolute way. Sovereignty does not need to be a black-and-white issue: for instance, the person could be sovereign to have opinions, but not to perform any kinds of acts. For instance, a person that thinks the consumption of drugs should be always illegal is against absolute self-ownership, but not necessarily in favor of full subordination.
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In The Ethics of Liberty, Murray Rothbard argues that 100 percent self-ownership is the only principle compatible with a moral code that applies to every person – a “universal ethic” – and that it is a natural law by being what is naturally best for man. He says if every person is not entitled to full self-ownership, then there are only two alternatives:
“(1) the ‘communist’ one of Universal and Equal Other-ownership, or
(2) Partial Ownership of One Group by Another – a system of rule by one class over another.”
He says that it is not possible for alternative (2) to be a universal ethic but only a partial ethic, which says that one class of people do not have the right of self-ownership but another class does. This, therefore, is incompatible with what is being sought – a moral code applicable to every person – instead of a code applicable to some and not to others, as if some individuals are humans and some are not.
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In the case of alternative (1), every individual would own equal parts of every other individual so that no one is self-owned. Rothbard acknowledges that this would be a universal ethic, but, he argues, it is “Utopian and impossible for everyone to keep continual tabs on everyone else, and thereby to exercise his equal share of partial ownership over every other man.”
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He says the system would break down, resulting in a ruling class who specializes in keeping tabs over other individuals. Since this would grant a ruling class ownership rights over its subjects, it would again be logically incompatible with a universal ethic. Even if a collectivist Utopia of everyone having equal ownership of everyone else could be sustained, he argues, individuals would not be able to do anything without prior approval by everyone in society. Since this would be impossible in a large society, no one would be able to do anything and the human race would perish. Therefore, the collectivist alternative universal ethic where every individual would own an equal portion of every other individual violates the natural “law of what is best for man and his life on earth.” He says that if a person exercises ownership over another person, that is, uses aggression against him rather than leaving him to do as he wills, “this violates his nature.”[8]
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it…”
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Journey Down the Rabbit Hole!
Voluntaryism, or voluntarism, is a philosophy that opposes anything that it sees as unjustifiably invasive and coercive. Voluntaryism regards government as coercive, and calls for its abolishment, but, unlike a number of other anarchist philosophies, it supports strong property rights which it regards as a natural law that is compatible with non-coercion.
The goal of voluntaryism is the supplantation of the state by a voluntary order, in which political authority is reverted to the individual, and association among people occurs only by mutual consent. Voluntaryists believe voluntaryism itself should be the means to achieve this goal, rather than forceful action.
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The term voluntaryism is often used today as a synonym for free-market anarchist or anarcho-capitalist philosophies. The voluntaryist movement, however, is distinct in its rejection of electoral politics. Because they consider electoral politics to be counterproductive or immoral, voluntaryists seek to dismantle the state by non-political means including:
Secession, counter-economics, civil disobedience and education.
Here’s another blurb on voluntaryism.
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