Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • “A well hanged man rarely reoffends.”—Shaun Moss

    —“A well hanged man rarely reoffends.”—Shaun Moss

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-27 15:44:00 UTC

  • THE VIRTUE OF HANGING Unfortunately, the whole expansion of the franchised ruine

    THE VIRTUE OF HANGING

    Unfortunately, the whole expansion of the franchised ruined our excellent ancient tradition of watching your words, through liberal use of the duel.

    Unfortunately, the whole expansion of the franchise ruined our excellent tradition of telling the truth, by the dilution of libel and slander.

    Unfortunately the whole post-slavery thing ruined our excellent ancient tradition of genetic pacification thru liberal application of hanging.

    Unfortunately mass immigration ruined our excellent tradition of genetic pacification through sheriffs, posses, and civic duty of every man to defend the commons.

    Too many unfortunate things for aristocracy to tolerate.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-27 11:00:00 UTC

  • (Riffing off Michael Philip) Criminal, ethical, moral. The criminal spectrum con

    (Riffing off Michael Philip)

    Criminal, ethical, moral.

    The criminal spectrum consists of imposition of costs by manual means.

    The ethical spectrum consists of imposition of costs by means of information asymmetry.

    The moral spectrum consists of costs imposed by anonymous means.

    Norms may or many not be objectively moral.

    Laws may or may not be objectively moral.

    Under Propertarianism all law is required to be constructed by objectively moral means and everything else is just a contract for multiple exchanges the net of which must be productive, fully informed, warrantied and free of externality of the same criteria.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-27 10:47:00 UTC

  • EASTERN EUROPE HAD ANARCHY: AND THE PEOPLE SUFFERED FOR IT. Yeah. My interest in

    EASTERN EUROPE HAD ANARCHY: AND THE PEOPLE SUFFERED FOR IT.

    Yeah. My interest in anarchism evaporated after a few months living in Ukraine. Because Eastern Europe is where the cosmopolitan authors got their ideas. Anarchism is an ode to lost predation in the serfs of Eastern Europe just like James Bond is an ode to lost empire: they’re both fictions.

    Voluntary everything is equivalent to Lawlessness. It is another great deception like Marxism and neoconservatism.

    Liberty, meaning the ability to do as you with without imposing costs upon others, is a product of the rule of law. And the only principle means of decidability for law that can possibly produce a condition of liberty is the prohibition on the imposition of costs, which we express as property rights, and the scope of those rights evolves in parallel to the evolution of the means of imposing costs that is the product of the expansion of technologies, methods of cooperation, and the division of labor.

    And me seek parasitism because it is much easier and more rewarding than production.

    So a few moral men prohibit these parasitisms so that they and all can prosper.

    They impose rule of law in an immoral population.

    These men constitute the western aristocracy.

    Rule of law. Nomocracy. The prohibition on the imposition of costs that result in free riding on the productivity of others.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-27 06:17:00 UTC

  • How Does The Republican Party Justify Its Desire To Legislate Morality, If The Core Of The Republican Belief Is In A Government That Should, When Possible, Not Interfere In The Lives Of Its Citizens?

    Common false argument.

    The conservative position is indo-european, and is easily visible in Greece: It is possible to resolve conflicts rationally. But we pay the penalty for our hubris if we assume we are wiser than we have evidence to prove.

    The point is not that we should not change, but that we are not wise enough to legislate change. 

    Turns out they’re right most of the  time.

    Conservatives do understand that the society is falling apart because of the decline of the absolute nuclear family. It may be NICER for some people to be single unwed parents, but those people emerge with different moral intuitions and different political preferences.

    It turns out that monogamous absolute nuclear marriage is perhaps the most important invention of western civilization.  And we’ve accidentally destroyed it as a social institution.

    In that sense, they aren’t ‘wrong’.   There is no free lunch. We aren’t that smart.

    If you can slowly demonstrate that something works without harm, then that’s fine. Conservatives will adopt it. If you engage in hubris, then you’re fighting the core principle of conservatism:

    We aren’t all that bright, and there are tremendous external consequences when we’re wrong.

    Like the liberal’s destruction of the black family, and the current expansion of that destruction of the nuclear family into the hispanic and lower class white communities.

    https://www.quora.com/How-does-the-Republican-Party-justify-its-desire-to-legislate-morality-if-the-core-of-the-Republican-belief-is-in-a-government-that-should-when-possible-not-interfere-in-the-lives-of-its-citizens

  • Do Rich People Ever Fly Coach?

    I fly coach if I’m paying for it and if my performance won’t suffer, and business or first class if I’m stressed and my performance will suffer, or if I’m working and want to circumvent the lines.  I don’t fly it to feel privileged.  Generally speaking, if you want to avoid the unwashed masses, stick to better airlines and pay slightly higher coach fees rather than just the lowest ticket price.

    Flying is very stressful on your body, on your senses, on your mind because of the high volume of background noise.   No amount of catering in first class will change that.  DRINKING WATER WILL.  First class and business class travel is less taxing on the body, and on the mind.

    First and Business class is largely for business travelers who must preserve their energy, because they cannot rest or relax when they land, and other people depend upon them being productive when they do land. It is not so much for the catering, which people who are wealthy come to simply expect, or ignore, but not feel special about.   If you travel a great deal airplane business class becomes your only place to relax, because it is the only space that is familiar. Sometimes we confuse the fact that the calm look on business class travellers’ faces is because they are more familiar with the experience of flying, not because the seats are so much better.

    READ THE MILLIONAIRE MIND: Rich people are rich because they work hard, and are patient. Most people cannot suppress their desire to ‘daydream’ or avoid work as long as people who are rich do (this is called time preference).  The rich outliers are statistical anomalies who have won a life lottery.  Most people who are balance sheet wealthy saved money or grew and sold businesses over very long periods of time, while training themselves to “appreciate present goods over future perfections”. 

    This is something that it is difficult to train humans to do, but it is possible. And as such, it is possible to train yourself to do.

    https://www.quora.com/Do-rich-people-ever-fly-coach

  • How Does The Republican Party Justify Its Desire To Legislate Morality, If The Core Of The Republican Belief Is In A Government That Should, When Possible, Not Interfere In The Lives Of Its Citizens?

    Common false argument.

    The conservative position is indo-european, and is easily visible in Greece: It is possible to resolve conflicts rationally. But we pay the penalty for our hubris if we assume we are wiser than we have evidence to prove.

    The point is not that we should not change, but that we are not wise enough to legislate change. 

    Turns out they’re right most of the  time.

    Conservatives do understand that the society is falling apart because of the decline of the absolute nuclear family. It may be NICER for some people to be single unwed parents, but those people emerge with different moral intuitions and different political preferences.

    It turns out that monogamous absolute nuclear marriage is perhaps the most important invention of western civilization.  And we’ve accidentally destroyed it as a social institution.

    In that sense, they aren’t ‘wrong’.   There is no free lunch. We aren’t that smart.

    If you can slowly demonstrate that something works without harm, then that’s fine. Conservatives will adopt it. If you engage in hubris, then you’re fighting the core principle of conservatism:

    We aren’t all that bright, and there are tremendous external consequences when we’re wrong.

    Like the liberal’s destruction of the black family, and the current expansion of that destruction of the nuclear family into the hispanic and lower class white communities.

    https://www.quora.com/How-does-the-Republican-Party-justify-its-desire-to-legislate-morality-if-the-core-of-the-Republican-belief-is-in-a-government-that-should-when-possible-not-interfere-in-the-lives-of-its-citizens

  • Do Rich People Ever Fly Coach?

    I fly coach if I’m paying for it and if my performance won’t suffer, and business or first class if I’m stressed and my performance will suffer, or if I’m working and want to circumvent the lines.  I don’t fly it to feel privileged.  Generally speaking, if you want to avoid the unwashed masses, stick to better airlines and pay slightly higher coach fees rather than just the lowest ticket price.

    Flying is very stressful on your body, on your senses, on your mind because of the high volume of background noise.   No amount of catering in first class will change that.  DRINKING WATER WILL.  First class and business class travel is less taxing on the body, and on the mind.

    First and Business class is largely for business travelers who must preserve their energy, because they cannot rest or relax when they land, and other people depend upon them being productive when they do land. It is not so much for the catering, which people who are wealthy come to simply expect, or ignore, but not feel special about.   If you travel a great deal airplane business class becomes your only place to relax, because it is the only space that is familiar. Sometimes we confuse the fact that the calm look on business class travellers’ faces is because they are more familiar with the experience of flying, not because the seats are so much better.

    READ THE MILLIONAIRE MIND: Rich people are rich because they work hard, and are patient. Most people cannot suppress their desire to ‘daydream’ or avoid work as long as people who are rich do (this is called time preference).  The rich outliers are statistical anomalies who have won a life lottery.  Most people who are balance sheet wealthy saved money or grew and sold businesses over very long periods of time, while training themselves to “appreciate present goods over future perfections”. 

    This is something that it is difficult to train humans to do, but it is possible. And as such, it is possible to train yourself to do.

    https://www.quora.com/Do-rich-people-ever-fly-coach

  • Criticism as Justification?

    [C]RITICISM AS JUSTIFICATION 1 – We justify moral action ( dependence upon norm ) 2 – We justify legal contract ( explicit reference to law) 3- We are skeptical of perception and cognition. (Honesty of witness) 4 – We criticize truth propositions (theory) Because in each case we test for different properties all of which we blanket under an analogy to the term “true”, but none of which are informationally complete enough to in fact be true (ultimately parsimonious). Instead, when we use the term true, we mean that we have adhered to moral norms in each case, when we give our testimony ( speak ). Truth then is a moral warranty of due diligence against falsehood. It is not and cannot ever exist outside of tautology. As far as I know that is the final analysis available to us. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute. Kyiv, Ukraine.

  • Criticism as Justification?

    [C]RITICISM AS JUSTIFICATION 1 – We justify moral action ( dependence upon norm ) 2 – We justify legal contract ( explicit reference to law) 3- We are skeptical of perception and cognition. (Honesty of witness) 4 – We criticize truth propositions (theory) Because in each case we test for different properties all of which we blanket under an analogy to the term “true”, but none of which are informationally complete enough to in fact be true (ultimately parsimonious). Instead, when we use the term true, we mean that we have adhered to moral norms in each case, when we give our testimony ( speak ). Truth then is a moral warranty of due diligence against falsehood. It is not and cannot ever exist outside of tautology. As far as I know that is the final analysis available to us. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute. Kyiv, Ukraine.