The Genesis of the Shire Society

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  1. TheMuslimAgorist

    TheMuslimAgorist New Member

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    this from your link
    So, just knowing the personalities involved I would say that they would fall on the individualist, private property side of things. However, they are definately not supporters of "morally unrestrained egoism." That's an Objectivist thing I think. These guys are mostly Quakers. They advocate non violent responses to victimless moral crimes, like ostracism. Although there are a lot of pot heads in their midst.

    The primary distinction I think I'd make between what they are saying and what you are saying is that they don't impose the distinction. Whether a person is a socialist or an individualist, an anarchist or a statist, any of these things are acceptable to them provided the association is voluntary. That's the only criterion. In fact, they spend a lot of time discussing what a voluntary government would look like. So they aren't categorically apposed to hierarchy as anarchists are, only apposed to coercion.
     
  2. abu Hasan

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    so, what is the difference between this euphemistic 'voluntary society' and traditional anarchism?
     
  3. TheMuslimAgorist

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    On June 26th 2010 the seeds of a voluntary society were sown in Lancaster New Hampshire. Participants in the annual Porcupine Freedom Festival held a signing ceremony to inaugurate their founding document, The Shire Society Declaration, which some have called a new declaration of independence.

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