COMPLIMENTS. AND AGREEMENT ON ENDS IF NOT MEANS Even though I am from the conser

COMPLIMENTS. AND AGREEMENT ON ENDS IF NOT MEANS

Even though I am from the conservative side of the fence, this is a fantastic list, and I enjoy it every day.

I try to judge people by their desired ends, not so much as by their method of getting to those ends. Desired ends are determined by moral sentiments. The means of achieving them are a function of knowledge or ignorance. Creating a wonderful world to share with each other requires that we also share those desired ends, and that we cooperate on those ends, even if we prefer to use different means.

While I’m a critic of the GSHM ideology for a host of reasons — its limited understanding of the necessary properties of economic cooperation through competition and prices, the impossibility of the Utopian idea of outcome-equality, the anti-scientific, contra-rational faith in biological equality, the universal error of false consensus bias, the and the confusion between over-population and over-consumption, that doesn’t mean that I have a different desire for the same peaceful equal, egalitarian world. I do. I just realize that consensus hasn’t ever, and can’t helped us get there. Only institutions that help us do it through productive competition can. And government is the problem more often than it is the cure.

What I love about this page and its members is the positive and aspirational nature of the posts. I can solve the problem of knowledge and ignorance. We can do that together. What we can’t solve is the problem of people who have selfish ends.

Thanks for your work.

Curt