The Genesis of the Shire Society

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  1. TheMuslimAgorist

    TheMuslimAgorist New Member

    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

    abu Hasan Administrator

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

    TheMuslimAgorist New Member

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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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