THE VIRTUE OF NATURAL LAW – AND ITS COSTS (important) What is my favorite featur

THE VIRTUE OF NATURAL LAW – AND ITS COSTS

(important)

What is my favorite feature of natural law?

I can tell you what is false. I can tell you what is insufficient make a truth claim. I can tell you what is the most true of the propositions available. But I cannot tell you what is good. Anything that is not false, not insufficient, and the most true proposition available is a candidate good. The determination of a preference is something up to the individual, or the group, or the polity, or the nation, or the civilization to decide by some method of decidability or other. But the determination of a good is ascertained by the measurements of the prior and consequential states of capital, and the transactions that constitute the change in state. If more capital-in-toto exists, then objectively one achieved a good. If less, one did not. And while the measurement of such changes in capital is somewhat challenging, it is not, by any means, impossible – just undesirable by those who do not seek good in truth, but preference regardless of it.

Because for the stoic and the ascetic, a condition of freedom to work as I desire, within a condition of liberty for others to organize work, within a condition of sovereignty for others to rule, such that the rest may organize, and labor, is all I desire. I wish the fruits of sovereignty, liberty, and freedom made possible by natural law. I do not wish to act parasitically upon others. As such I understand that I must regulate my consumption to that which I can obtain without imposition of costs upon others.

I prefer the fine arts, fine architecture, fine antiques, exotic cars, good company, beautiful women, money and especially power. But I do not prefer them at the expense of contemplation and production of ideas for which I earn trivial if any compensation. I leave that for others with other preferences.

the difference is, that I have proven myself capable of any of those achievements. Having done so, I find them hollow compared to coffee shops, writing, and thinking.