OBJECTIVE MORALITY AND REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY (good piece) Whenever any organism

OBJECTIVE MORALITY AND REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY

(good piece)

Whenever any organism that can cooperate, chooses to cooperate, it confronts the problem of free riding, which eliminates the value of cooperation.

By suppressing free riding we force others to engage in production themselves. Many hands make lighter work, and the more of us are engaged in production the more productive we are. Moral prohibitions both prohibit free riding and as a consequence provide an incentive to produce.

Property then is the necessary consequence of the prohibition on free riding. And given that cases of kin selection are not in fact cases of free riding (child rearing), constraints on property in-family, in-group, and out-group can be quite different. Property rights are those necessary within a given structure of production utilizing a given reproductive structure (family). Those property rights represent the necessary rules for the suppression of free riding within that order.

Colloquial language encourages imprecise usage of precise terms. While the terms “crime, ethics and morals” each describe very different prohibitions, we conflate them frequently, which obscures their differences: Crimes describe physical transgressions. Ethics describe trust transgressions internal to an exchange. Morals describe trust transgressions into the commons. Unfortunately, while it is easy to determine whether crimes refer to cases of free riding , and largely easy to determine whether ethical prohibitions refer to cases of free riding, it is somewhat difficult to determine which moral rules refer to free riding on the commons, which are merely ritual (signal costs) and which are random error. It is difficult, but not impossible.

For these reasons, we can determine whether or not a given criminal, ethical, or moral prohibition is a case of free riding, all objective morals are ascertainable. In any given structure of production and reproduction, we can determine whether any criminal, ethical, and moral prohibition is a matter of free riding or kin selection or familialism (insurance) within that structure of production.

The difference is not subjective but instead a necessity of competition given available productive and reproductive structures. in other words, moral codes that suppress more free riding in broader division of knowledge and labor will allow the expression of talents held by members of the polity. Conversely, increases in free riding within the division of knowledge and labor compensate for weaknesses in the talents held by members of the polity.

Rothbardianism fails because aggression is a means of violation not a definition of property independent if means of transgression. Furthermore NAP/IVP only limits crime, and not only does not limit, but licenses unethical and immoral actions.

No group demonstrates this rothbardian low level of trust in-group. And those that demonstrate it out-group are the subject of persecution and genocide. Rightfully so since they are engaging in predation and parasitism, not cooperation.

As such, morals are not subjective but objective. They are necessities of competition in a given structure of production, under a given family structure.

In a homogenous polity of closely related outbred individuals with exceptional talents, very expansive property rights are useful for movement of the group against other groups. In a diverse polity of not-closely related inbred individuals, expansive property rights inhibit the parasitism of groups on other groups.

Curt Doolittle

The Philosophy of Aristocracy

The Propertarian Institute

Kiev Ukraine

“North Eurasian and Circumpolar hunter-gatherers (Hutterites and Amish, Puritans) will be more prone to altruistic punishment than those from Middle Old World culture area (Jews, Gypsies, Chinese)…. Puritan groups seem particularly prone to bouts of moralistic outrage directed at those of their own people seen as free riders and morally blameworthy.” -Kevin MacDonald

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See: Family Types

http://www.propertarianism.com/glossary/#kin

Families as unity of cultural production

http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/families-as-the-unit-of-cultural-production-in-a-civilization/

*The Unique Culture of the North Sea Peoples

http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/on-the-north-sea-peoples/

The Culture That Suppresses All Discounts, All Free-Riding, All Involuntary Transfer, All Unethical And Immoral Action

http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/7158/

The Uniqueness of the North Sea Peoples

http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/on-the-north-sea-peoples/

The Ethics of the high trust northerner europeans

http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/descriptive-high-trust-ethics-of-northern-europeans/

Circumpolar Altruistic Punishment

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/but-is-it-genetic/