PROPERTARIANISM: CORRECTING HEINLEIN ON MORALITY –“Morals — all correct moral l

PROPERTARIANISM: CORRECTING HEINLEIN ON MORALITY

–“Morals — all correct moral laws — derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level. The basis of all morality is duty.”– Heinlein

Terribly imprecise and inadequate use of antique religio-moral language to refer to a purely economic (human) behavior.

It is not true that morals derive from the instinct to survive, but from the instinct to cooperate, and to gain advantage in consumption through cooperation. It is true that we cannot consider the intertemporally self-genocidal, fratricidal and suicidal to be moral – because that is irrational. But that tells us nothing about the reasons for, and causes of, our moral intuitions.

Our emotional intuitions tell us to acquire if not to expense, and to avoid prevent even if it is so.

Our moral intuitions encourage us to cooperate out of self-interest, and to avoid and punish parasitism out of self-interest.

This is because cooperation is a multiplier on acquisition. And because parasitism eliminates the value of cooperation.

So, duty, while admirable (and the central proposition of germanic civilization), is correctly stated as the payment of all possible fees into the intellectual, normative, material, and genetic commons.

Germanic ‘duty’ refers to the total suppression of free riding on the intellectual, normative, material, and genetic commons.

Men pay a disproportionate percentage of these costs. In no small part, because women largely engage in just the opposite. As has been demonstrated by their voting pattern in all democratic countries.

Propertarianism solves all questions of human action.