Five Fallacious Critiques of Voluntaryism, PWND
26 October 2012
In this video, the narrator walks through five fallacies of Voluntaryism that often get discussed when speaking about being a Voluntaryist.
The video is not very long, but long enough to provide excellent examples for each statement. We hope you’ll watch and join in the discussion.
1. Voluntaryism is trying to create a Utopia which could never exist. [0:10]
2. Voluntaryism cannot work because people are evil. [1:19]
3. Voluntaryism permits alternative justice like courts, so it is no different than government. [2:23]
4. Voluntaryism would allow big business to control everything. [3:35]
5. Voluntaryism would lead to total anarchy, and anarchy is total chaos. [4:30]
First he doesn’t define Voluntaryism. Very lame and makes the rest incomprehensible to the uninitiated. Responding to his particular arguments:
1. Voluntaryism is unachievable w/o government and wicked people don’t hate Voluntaryism, they love it, its like slaughtering sheep.
3. who’s enforcing the private arbitration agreement? gangs?
4. not surprising that the video is anti-Walmart, not a crony as far as I know but something quite wonderful that has succeeded despite widespread government opposition.
5. Voluntaryism won’t LEAD to anarchy, Voluntaryism is anarchy. Who cares what voluntaryism “values” or “embraces” if it has no ability to enforce it. You can be all voluntary and stuff and my gang is still going to roll your ass. Your cries of “those aren’t my values” won’t stop thugs.
This is a pretty bad video. At best it has some discussion points, but it doesn’t PWN anything.
Voluntaryism = voluntary human interaction, as opposed to at the point of a gun controlled by a violent gang known as government which claims a monopoly over the ‘lawful’ use of force. Does that help?
Shorter Shane Atwell: WHO WILL BUILD THE ROADS?!?! Fyi, Anarchy isn’t the absent of rules, quite the contrary, it is the absence of rulers. This video does a good job explaining David Friedman’s seminal work “The Machinery of Freedom,” http://duelingbarstools.com/2012/06/machinery-of-freedom-explained/
See also: http://media.freedomainradio.com/feed//stateless_society_take_2_320.mp3