What we’re about
The Ozark Voluntaryist Community provides ways for people who value peace, freedom, and consent, and who live in Northwest Arkansas, Southern Missouri, and nearby areas, to get together, make friends, discuss ideas, and potentially help better people's lives and create freer communities through activism and outreach done outside the apparatus of the State.
We are an informal group of friends who hold a variety of opinions and political views, but we share a few core values and principles, respect each other despite our differences, and meet up regularly to enjoy one another's company.
We are a network of people with shared values rather than a formal organization. We have no official list of members. If you value peace, freedom, and consent then please feel free to consider yourself a member, and we hope you feel welcome among us.
See you at our next meetup!
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What is Voluntaryism?
Voluntaryism is a very simple moral philosophy – it is the basic proposition that all human interaction should be voluntary and directly consensual. Voluntaryism rejects the initiation of force in all its various forms including physical violence, threats of violence, theft, kidnapping, slavery, rape, murder, etc. Unlike Pacifism however, Voluntaryism does not bar the victim of coercion from responding in a strictly self-defensive manner.
If we're to apply this philosophy consistently, then we'll have to hold the people who call themselves "the government" to the same standards as anyone else. That standard is simply that voluntary human relations are the opposite of power relations, and that communities are best organized by voluntary relations. That is, relations among equals, and not between rulers and subjects. Voluntaryists are typically not fans of government in principle, nor do they think that the institution of coercive government is necessary. We recognize that there are two ways that people can relate to one another: voluntarily or coercively. Voluntaryists embrace the former and reject the latter.
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