TO THE DEATH I never settle. Ever. It is a moral conviction. I drag it out and d

TO THE DEATH

I never settle. Ever. It is a moral conviction. I drag it out and drive up the costs, hire private investigators to create a story of a pattern of behaviour.

I have found that in American courts that the moral high ground almost always prevails.

But I am willing to pay high personal costs to create the reputation of litigiousness on moral grounds.

The problem is that the law and the state have created perverse incentives by not holding to loser pays, or triple damages for lying.

This is what we must fix: it is not that you just lose if you are caught in lying – but that you pay costs plus triple it ten times damages.

We have seen in employment law how much piercing the corporate veil and triple damages have done for us

So I agree with Don that scumbags are a waste of time and money.

But personally, so are property rights and government.

Violence and tyranny are better investments for the strong. But the commons requires the strong pay high costs of construction.

For me – power is the game and nobility the objective. I do not see virtue through a Christian lens. I see it through Nietzsche: that I can only serve man by excellence, and that the record of my life on Earth is not one of pragmatism or compromise but of demonstrated excellence in the furtherance of moral man: the total suppression of free riding leaving only voluntary, productive, exchange as a possible action.