This website is dedicated to remembering a spectacular human being named Butler Shaffer. Butler was a giant in the pro-freedom and pro-peace movement. He was a tireless and uncompromising advocate for the liberty of all individuals to assert personal and sovereign ownership over one’s own body, property, time and money. Butler firmly opposed all forms of coercion, fraud, and all initiations of force. He believed in the unplanned and spontaneous order that arises out of complex systems and emanates from the bottom up rather than imposed by some great leader.
Butler was a spiritual and compassionate man who tirelessly sought to better understand and to promote the idea that all life is connected. Butler exemplified the best aspects of tolerance, open-mindedness, and a sincere desire for peaceful relations with others. Butler sincerely believed and promoted the idea that humans can live together in a productive, peaceful, civilized society by utilizing only private voluntary transactions between consenting adults. Through his many articles, and speeches, and by intentionally creating chaos in the minds of his law students over many years, Butler influenced and challenged countless people to think differently and to advocate for a more free and peaceful world. This website exists to keep his memory, his ideas and his wonderful optimism about the long term prospects for humanity’s flourishing alive for others to simply “kick around” and discuss. Butler is sorely missed and loved by his soulmate Jane, his family, his friends, the lawyers who grew as a result of his questions, and most whoever crossed his path. Butler was a true credit to humanity; one of our finest.