(Trying to think of how to explain this both sufficiently and parsimoniously…)
(a) human demonstrated interests are empirically observable and logically explicable.
(b) demonstrated interests always and everywhere constitute capital where capital serves as a reserve of time and energy.
(c) human display, word and deed, either has no impact on, contributes to, or decreases that capital.
(e) Ergo a full accounting of capital, and a full accounting of consequences, then determine, objectively, operationally, and scientifically whether ‘degeneracy’ is an act of harm against the capital of the commons.
(f) The individual must be the subject of law because only individuals act. Even if they act collectively by the same incentives. However, the family must be the subject of policy, children the subject of society, and reciprocal cooperation the subject of governance, and prohibition of against irreciprocity the subject of the state (military).
This is a brief set of statements but the end result is we have fully scienced the economics (measurement) of human behavior, and all human behavior, at least within context is decidable – meaning the neutral, good, and bad, are ascertainable regardless of individual opinion.
The problem of course is the sex differences in moral intuition (they are polar opposites) and the fact that there are minorities of feminine men and masculine women. And there are majorities of those who seek to evade responsibility for the spectrum capital whether private or common, and those that are unable to evade it. So training (intuition) and education (reason) and productivity(skills) are necessary disciplines that must be institutionalized wiether religiously socially educationally or legally.
ie: morality and immorality are not subjective. Individual moral wish for the world to suit themselves rather than the polity as a whole, and especially over time, is expresssed in variations of demand for moral conditions of cooperation. However, demdns are not truths, only preferences. All truth is determined by the resolution of those disputes by the test of changes in capital.
That’s the simple version.
Cheers
Reply addressees: @justinmchase @entelechhhy
Source date (UTC): 2023-12-13 17:06:12 UTC
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