Free Friends—A Voluntary Community of Responsible Freedom

Living in the Heartland of Your Freed Mind

IS FREE FRIENDS FOR YOU?
• Making sure we share same Core Values.
• Forming a Free Friends Community.
• Work online or bricks and mortar?
• Financial survival & investment opportunities.
The most important thing to decide if you are a Free
Friend or not is to make sure you clearly understand
and completely agree with our values.

4 CORE VALUES
1. All human interactions must always be
“Voluntary” to be morally justifiable. You can
NEVER morally justify first (defensive is morally
justifiable) physical force or threat of using it to
get what you want. This means you cannot
morally sanction ANY government since ALL
use first physical force to govern.
2. Private property
3. Free trade
4. Contractual obligation
We call ourselves “VOLUNTARYISTS”.
“Voluntaryists are advocates of non-political, non-violent strategies to achieve a free
society. We reject electoral politics, in theory and in practice, as incompatible with
libertarian principles. Governments must cloak their actions in an aura of moral
legitimacy in order to sustain their power, and political methods invariably strengthen
that legitimacy. Voluntaryists seek instead to delegitimize the State through education,
and we advocate withdrawal of the cooperation and tacit consent on which State power
ultimately depends.” www.voluntaryist.com

INTERESTED? CONTACT Responsibly Free Jack: [email protected]

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THE ARGUMENT FOR VOLUNTARYISM: YOUR CHOICE—EVEN IF YOU DON’T
CONSCIOUSLY CHOOSE

Here is one of the best statements I have found by an articulate, typical Statist (one who
believes in and supports the moral legitimacy of government) which I think accurately
captures their belief. I use it to frame my argument.

“SOMETIMES FREEDOMS MUST BE FOREGONE FOR THE COLLECTIVE GOOD”

“Freedom has its limits. The freedom to infect others - albeit unknowingly - has the
potential to take away from others the greatest freedom and right of all, the right to life.
That right outweighs the freedom of an individual to behave as he/she wishes every
time. Sometimes freedoms must be foregone for the collective good.”

Considering the above Statist belief:

Either:
1. The Individual is the primary unit of ownership, freedom, responsibility and control.
Or:
2. The Collective (Government, Religion, Ideology, Spirituality, Society, Culture, Family)
is the primary unit of ownership, freedom, responsibility and control.

If you take Position 1. then the Individual has the Moral Right to control him/herself
so long as he/she does not use FIRST physical force against another person; and also
has the Moral Right to defend him/herself with physical force if first physical force is
used against him/her. NO End Ever Justifies the Coercive Means.

If you take Position 2. then the Collective has the Moral Right to control all
Individuals and if necessary has the Moral Right to use FIRST physical force to control
any Individual for the “Greater Good” of the Collective. SOME Ends Justify the
Coercive Means.

Whether you know this, understand this, agree or not, the above choices always apply.
And the choices are mutually exclusive. Most Statists go back and forth between being
Individualists and Collectivists according to the situation and circumstances.

This does not mean you cannot, as a Voluntary Individualist, choose to voluntarily join a
Collective. Voluntary being the key condition. However, morally, you cannot justify
physically forcing another to join your collective or stay in it and follow your rules.

Even if you suppose you don’t or won’t choose 1 or 2, it will be chosen for you by the
Collective.

To repeat: For a Voluntary Individualist there is only one Means that can NEVER be
Justified by ANY End. That Means is the INITIATION of physical force. Note, this does
not mean the use of physical force to defend yourself from the initiation of physical force.

Either you believe that SOME End morally justifies the Means of using first physical
force. Or, you believe that NO End ever justifies the Means of using first physical
force. To choose the former, is not simply a slippery slope into giving up your some of
your freedom for government security; rather, sooner or later, it will be a certain cliff off
which you step into tyranny.

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QUOTES

Collectivist—Self-Sacrifice
“The common good before the individual good.” Adolf Hitler
"To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to
the whole." Joseph Goebbels
"Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all." Nikita
Khrushchev
“All within the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.” Benito
Mussolini

Individualist—Responsible Freedom
“The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the
denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule.” F.A.
Hayek
“The society we propose is based on one fundamental principle: No man or group of
men--including any group of men calling themselves "the government"--is morally
entitled to initiate (that is, to start) the use of physical force, the threat of force, or any
substitute for force (such as fraud) against any other man or group of men. This means
that no man, no gang, and no government may morally use force in even the smallest
degree against even the most unimportant individual so long as that individual has not
himself initiated force.” Morris and Linda Tannehill
“Who gets to make decisions about what? The essence of ‘ownership’ is to be found in
control: who gets to be the ultimate decision maker about people and things in the
world? Property is an existential fact. Whatever the society in which we live, someone
will make determinations as to who will live where, what resources can be consumed by
whom (and when), and how such property will be controlled. Such decisions can either
be made by individual property owners, over what is theirs to control, or by the state
presuming the authority to control the lives of each of us. When such decisions are
made by the state, it is claiming ownership over our lives. We may, of course, choose to
accept our role as state-owned chattels, particularly if we are well-treated by our
masters. We may be so conditioned in our obeisance that, like cattle entering the
slaughterhouse, we may pause to lick the hand of the butcher out of gratitude for having
been well cared for. On the other hand, we may decide to reclaim our self-ownership by
taking back the control over our lives that we have long since abandoned.” Butler
Shaffer
“The power system continues only as long as individuals try to get something for
nothing. The day when a majority of individuals declares or acts as if it wants nothing
from the government, declares that it will look after its own welfare and interests, then on
that day the power elites are doomed. “ Antony C. Sutton
“One of the tragedies of human history is that most of the ethical systems that achieved
any degree of world influence were, at root, variations on the theme of self-sacrifice.
Unselfishness was equated with virtue; selfishness—honoring the needs and wants of
the self—was made a synonym of evil. With such systems, the individual has always
been a victim, twisted against him- or her- self and commanded to be ‘unselfish’ in
sacrificial service to some allegedly higher value called God or pharaoh or emperor or
king or society or the state or the race of the proletariat—or the cosmos.” Nathaniel
Branden

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"Then what is freedom? It is the will to be responsible for ourselves." Friedrich Nietzsche
“Liberty is the prevention of control by others.” Lord Acton
“Governments must not be abolished! They must be abandoned. They will be
abandoned when you demonstrate that you can manage your affairs without the
supervision of a pater familias. In short, when you abandon your political adolescence
and come of age, you will stop seeking to impose your will upon others, and at the same
time demonstrate that your will is strong enough to control your own actions within a
framework of non-molestation.” Robert LeFevre
“So long as the people continue to be consumed by fear and to fall for the age-old
swindle that the government seeks only to protect them, however, these abuses [e.g.,
“Lockdown”] will never end. Until people learn to disregard the state’s siren song of
beneficence and protection, they will continue to suffer and die as victims of the
state’s wars, foreign and domestic. People yearn for security, and they look to the state
to provide it, but they are calling upon a wolf to guard the sheep. The state cannot
refrain from crime because it is an inherently criminal enterprise, living by robbery (which
it relabels taxation) and maintaining its turf by murder (which it relabels war).” Robert
Higgs
"Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who
ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who
were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind. The harm done by
ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with
the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional ‘do-gooders,’ who attempt to
set themselves up as gods on earth and who would ruthlessly force their views on all
others-with the abiding assurance that the end justifies the means. But it is a mistake to
assume that the do-gooders are insincere. The danger lies in the fact that their faith is
just as devout and just as ardent as that of the ancient Aztec priest.” Henry Grady
Weaver

WEBSITES TOWARDS RESPONSIBLE FREEDOM:

https://liberty.me
http://voluntaryist.com
https://www.lewrockwell.com
https://mises.org
https://libertarianinstitute.org
https://tomwoods.com

VIDEOS TOWARDS RESPONSIBLE FREEDOM:

The Philosophy of Liberty by Ken Schoolland:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GazZBvHhgQ
Government as God by Larken Rose
https://bit.ly/2Cw304e

INTERESTED? CONTACT Responsibly Free Jack: [email protected]