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Issue Subscription Is $20 Or .07 Free Choice of the Individual, and Can Arise in No Ounce of Fine Gold The Voluntaryist Whole Number 135 'If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself." 4th Quarter 2007 most of the time" by lies and appeals to emotion not Changing Minds just because those tricks do, alas, work - but also By Jim Davies because if they resorted to reason they would have [Editor's Note: During early June 2006, one of my sub- nothing to say. There are absolutely no votes gener- scribers put me in touch with Jim Davies, author of ated by announcing "I am here to steal from you to The On Line Freedom Academy (TOLFA). TOLFA is a pay to brainwash your neighbor's children in my in- web-based series of study lessons devoted to expound- stitutions." It's a real turn-off, when stated plainly, ing the free market. I was so impressed with Jim's work truthfully and reasonably. So instead he disguises that I asked him to write an article about his back- the truth and speaks just of his noble and selfless ground and the events which led to the creation of wish to see "our children educated" and leaves un- TOLFA. The On Line Freedom Academy reminds me spoken all those pesky financial and moral details. of Bob LeFevre's Freedom School. Although there are But we freedom-seekers do have reason on our some differences, its basic outlook is voluntaryist, and side. When we think it through, we can see govern- I highly recommend it to my readers. As Jim writes, if ment for the fraud that it is. We can start with the each one of us can introduce one person per year to undeniable premise of human self-ownership and TOLFA and convince them that that freedom works, reason through to the inescapable conclusion that both morally and practically, we will all be that much government needs to be totally eliminated from hu- closer to achieving freedom in our lifetime.] man society - not just for the evil it does, but prima- In June 2006,1 launched "The On Line Freedom rily for the evil that it is. That is where TOLFA leads Academy" or TOLFA, at www.tolfa.us. It has the its members, and that is our great strength. All we modest aim of changing the minds, over a period of a need is to know that minds are receptive to reason. little over two decades, of 268 million literate Ameri- Mine was - eventually. Presumably, since you're cans. It has the potential of changing our society from reading this, so was yours. Here's what happened to one where many decisions are made under compul- me. sion, to one in which all decisions would be made I was born in England, am fairly bright (for nei- voluntarily - that is, changing our society from a cul- ther of which I can claim credit), rather shy (for which ture of force to one embracing voluntaryism. I accept no blame), and of parents with a good work It will do so one by one, with every graduate or ethic. That's the hand life dealt me. It's not a bad "full member" bringing to the Academy from among one, and I have been very fortunate. By age 12,1 re- his circle of friends at least one new student per year. member having decided to be an atheist - and some- Thus, membership doubles annually; since 268 mil- how I got there by reason, for there was no pressure lion is 2 to the 28th power the job would take 28 or emotion driving me that way, that I can recall, but years if there were nobody starting but me. In fact it was probably my first big decision. At 13,1 made a there are quite a lot more than me already, so the job second, namely to follow my parents' sound advice will be complete within the decade of the 2020s. If on to attend boarding school, which certainly led me to average members bring more than one new partici- a first class education including a Cambridge degree. pant per year, we might even see that free society But I move too fast: at 16, still at school, I under- start during the decade of the 2010s. went a religious conversion, after which for 18 years One key underlying assumption is that people I was a Christian. That too was a very big decision generally are open to reason, and that's what Carl with lots of implications but I'd say it was not based Watner has asked me to explore in this article. What, on reason. My shyness had left me somewhat pum- exactly, changes minds? - and more particularly, he meled at boarding school so when I encountered a asked me, what caused my own mind to change; what very warm, friendly environment of kindly brought me to this point, of launching TOLFA? These Evangelicals who wanted me to join them it wasn't questions are very good, because it may be that hard to respond; I didn't consciously go against my peoples' positions are formed and fixed by means intellect or violate reason, it was just that reason other than reason - for example, by emotions such as played no part in the change and my atheism kind of fear. Politicians, certainly, are expert at playing on melted away. If it had (had there been someone emotion and prejudice (pre-judgments.) Must we present to remind me that this or that premise I was emulate those creeps? I, for one, hope not. hearing was unsupported) I can't say how my deci- And I think not, too. Pols "fool most of the people, continued on page 3 is laid to his charge. And this irresponsibility holds equally, regardless of virtuous and vicious conduct. The Voluntaryist A person who was forced to aid one in distress, Editor: Carl Watner who in previous years had placed him under deep Subscription Information obligation, could not be accounted grateful, ... Published quarterly by The Voluntaryists, P.O. Box 275, Good and evil, in a moral sense, arise out of the Gramling, SC 29348. A six-issue subscription is $20 or .07 free choice of the individual, and can arise in no ounce of fine gold. For overseas postage, please add $5 or % of other way. Coercion, so far as it goes, is destruc- the regular subscription price. Single back issues are $4 each tive of the very soil in which moral conduct is or VÖ of the regular subscription price. Please check the number on your mailing label to see when you should renew. THE reared - it is pro tanto, a denial of the very oppor- VOLUNTARYIST is online at www.voluntaryist.com. tunity to be virtuous or the reverse. —J. H. Levy in A. Goff and J. H. Levy, POLITICS AND DISEASE , London: P. S. King & Co. for Potpourri from the The Personal Rights Association, 1906, p. 200. Editor's Desk 4. "Is Punishment Necessary for Law?" European explorers often said, "Indians have no No. 1 "Williams' Law" law." Why? They couldn't see the police; they couldn't Whenever the profit incentive is missing, the prob- find the courts; they didn't see uniforms, jails, and ability that people's wants can be safely ignored is all the trappings of power. But they also couldn't see greatest. If a poll were taken asking people which the clan mothers [and tribal elders] who are so im- services they are most satisfied with and which they portant to our Native legal institutions. ... We deal are most dissatisfied with, for-profìt organizations with each other in ways to avoid confrontation and (supermarkets, computer companies, and video the use of force. Force, coercion, and the ability to stores) would dominate the first list while ... [gov- punish are not necessary to have law [i.e., social or- ernment] organizations, (schools, offices of motor der and peace]. vehicle registration) would dominate the latter. In a —Robert Yazzie, "Healing As Justice: the American free economy, the pursuit of profits and serving people Experience," in JUSTICE AS HEALING (Spring are one and the same. No one argues that the free 1995), p. 7. enterprise system is perfect, but it's the closest we'll come here on Earth. No. 5 "The People Were Reduced to A State of —Walter Williams, "The Entrepreneur As American Anarchy" Hero," 34 IMPRIMIS (March 2005), p. 5. The old constitution being taken away by act of parliament, and the new one being rejected by No. 2 "Of Voluntaryism and Geometry" the people, an end was put to all forms of law and If one were to have recourse to solid geometry government in the province of Massachusetts's for analogies to social systems, an institutionally- Bay, and the people were reduced to the state of dominated society would resemble a pyramid, with anarchy, in which mankind are supposed to have [state] authority centered in the hands of a few at existed in the earliest ages. The degree of order, the top, and the bulk of humanity responding to however, which, by the general concurrence of the the directions issued vertically and unilaterally. people, was preserved in this state of anarchy, will A society characterized by individual liberty [vol- forever excite the astonishment of mankind, and untaryism], on the other hand, might appear as a continue amongst the strongest proofs of the effi- sphere. On the surface of a sphere there are no cacy of long established habits, and to a constant preferred locations, no positions from which power submission to [natural] laws.
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