(organic common law as a means of incrementally suppressing free riding).
The logic of the Incremental Suppression of Free Riding via the evolution of the Common Law.
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Humans acquire at cost and defend what they have acquired at cost.
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Cooperation is disproportionately more productive than predation.
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Cooperation is only preferable to predation in the total absence of parasitism. Or, what we call free-riding.
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Because of the disproportionate value of cooperation, Humans retaliate against free riding even if at high cost ( altruistic punishment) – they protect the institution by severe policing of cheaters.
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Rules against free riding, either normative or codified in law, prohibit parasitism (free riding).
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Prohibitions that are habituated in norms or codified in law provide a means of decision making in matters of conflict.
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Prohibitions against parasitism can be positively expressed as contractual “rights”.
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Community member (shareholders in the local market) insure one another by suppressing retaliation against settlements of grievances according to norms and laws.
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The common, organic law allows for the least time lapse between an innovation in the means of parasitism and the construction of a prohibition against this new means of parasitism expressed as new law. As such all laws are discovered. (very important)
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High trust societies use common law to incrementally suppress all available means of free riding, leaving productive participation in the market as the only viable means of survival.
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As a consequence, the reproduction of the lower classes is suppressed and the distribution of talents increases along with the innovations in technology. (market eugenics). Thus obviating the need for tyranny and redistribution.
Aristocracy, Egalitarianism, Morality, Nomocracy, Meritocracy, Science, and Eugenic Evolution are mutually dependent.
The diagram shows the incremental suppression of parasitism starting from the suppression of violence through fraud, through conspiracy, through immigration, through conquest.
Only the west succeeded in developing the norm of truth. And without truth telling we cannot have the jury. And without the jury no judge or common law.
Truth matters above all else. Pseudoscience is just Babylonian monotheistic mysticism in new clothes. And this new emperor is naked also.
Truth is enough to rescue the west. Truth is enough.