Natural law says “people retaliate everywhere and always even at high personal c

Natural law says “people retaliate everywhere and always even at high personal cost, against imposition of costs against that which they have invested in. The record of torts in all cultures, and all civilization, across all time, regardless of legal systems, consists of tests of reciprocity given the portfolio of interests in the current division of labor and norms. The existential record international law, like international law throughout history is always and everywhere reducible to tests of reciprocity. Logically, no organism can both cooperate and survive competition, without developing reciprocity. Moreover, all organisms capable of cooperation demonstrate preservation of ‘cheating’ as a means of preserving the test of reciprocity such that the test of reciprocity is not lost through genetic or habitual optimism. In fact, we can find no evidence of altruism anywhere within the species that is not either kin selection, or altruistic PUNISHMENT. Furthermore, researchers cannot find a better game theory strategy than tit for tat, and increasing tolerance for cheating given the noise (error) possible in the exchanges.’

I don’t make ‘should’ or ‘good’ arguments. I search for decidability in matters of dispute. I argue against bads and leave goods up to market choice.

Reciprocity cannot rationally or logically be defeated that I know of, nor can it be empirically defeated that I know of. As far as I know all conflcits are decidable by tests of reciprocity against imposition of costs aginst property in toto, that has been gained by discovery and conversino (homesteading), conversion from prior states of one’s inventory, or obtained in productive, fully informed, voluntary exchange, free of imposition of costs by externality.

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