Everything Voluntary with Skyler J. Collins

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Editor's Break 120 has Skyler giving his commentary on the list of demands published by the yellow vest protesters in France and rating them as libertarian friendly, or not.

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Editor's Break 119 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: an update on his parking ticket; the definitive article he wrote in November 2018 outlining voluntaryist and real libertarian-based solutions to the immigration and public benefits problem; and more.

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Editor's Break 118 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: a summation of his views on praying to the state to enforce its arbitrary borders; racial prejudice directed at white people; the obligatory nature of state coercion; why suffering is often a good thing; when children should be exposed to violence; and more.

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Editor's Break 117 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: getting a parking ticket, finally, after six months of food delivery; his grandmother's improving situation; an article he wrote in March of 2008 on what the country should do about the illegal immigration problem; and more.

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Editor's Break 116 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: practicing the Stoic teaching of recognizing your own complicity in your emotional reactions to the speech of others; the insidious institution of schooling and its coercion and manipulation of children; how markets will respond to the grave and dire threat of climate change; the sad state of affairs in his culture toward care for the elderly; and more.

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Editor's Break 115 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: resources and scarcity; the purpose of property rights; ideas as patterns of information; the attempt to apply property rights to non-scarce ideas in the forms of copyright and patent; why intellectual property makes everyone a thief; how intellectual property rights necessarily violate material property rights; the argument that copying ideas is to steal future profits; and more.

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Editor's Break 114 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: the narratives we build about other people and the unfair and probably wrong assumptions we end up making; his March 2008 essay on corporate welfare; and more.

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Editor's Break 113 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: the identical and nefarious motivations of colonialism and statism; upgrading confirmation bias to confirmation imperative; the virtue of baby steps toward reducing coercion in society; why humans are naturally egalitarian, how far that goes, and why it's disastrous as public policy; the voluntaryist solutions to the public benefits to immigrants problem; and more.

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Editor's Break 112 has Skyler reading and adding commentary to an essay he wrote in May of 2007 titled, "Public Shootings and Self-Defense".

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Editor's Break 111 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: the terrible advice that is encouraging people in third world countries to stay and attempt to fix their governmental problems; the value in thinking of ideologies as sandboxes; what intelligence is and is not; the praiseworthiness that is the act of nullifying liberty-encroaching government laws; the contentious nature of politics; and more.

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Editor's Break 110 has Skyler listing and exploring the many different realizations that he's made over the last ten years that have pushed him into becoming a principled non-voter.

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Editor's Break 109 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: the effectiveness of state constitutions and the reason for an amendment process; how enforcing borders is central planning; his belief in paranormal mystery and the existence of UFOs; a somewhat better way to look at regrets about the past; how free societies would deal with brutal foreign political leaders via bounties; and more.

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Editor's Break 108 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: violent radicalism and the religion of Islam; why people become NPCs (non-player characters), and how to avoid becoming one; the ins and and outs of on-demand food delivery and why you should maximize your earnings; and more.

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Editor's Break 107 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: the value in granting birthright citizenship in order to reduce the amount of coercion leveled at people by governments; the challenge in tailoring your rhetoric, written or spoken, for a broader audience, what libertarianism has to say about bigotry, such as racism and sexism; and more.

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Editor's 106 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: swear words, their playful and hateful uses, and the importance of intent; the possibility of believing in God and a short introduction to ignosticism; several reasons for his abstention from participating in electoral politics; and more.