Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • Moral Objectivity or Relativity?

    [M]orality is as absolute as mathematics. Everything else is not morality but competitive strategy: contractual variations upon objective morality. Just as all law is as absolute as mathematics but all legislation contractual variation (or command).

    The conflation of morality with strategy, and law with command is a long-standing problem in rational philosophy. The law and morality are identical in content. Group Strategy and Group Contract are merely utilitarian. Cooperation evolved after individual survival. For cooperation to be rational it must be mutually beneficial. For it to be mutually beneficial it must be (in the aggregate) non-parasitic. We raise our children, demonstrate kin selection with kin, and we cooperate with non-kin, and we compete with those with whom we do not cooperate. So: Productive Fully informed. Warrantied. Voluntary Transfer Free of Negative Externality of the same criteria equals beneficial cooperation. Morality is an absolute. Norms are merely tactics. Legislation is not necessarily lawful. Norms are not necessarily moral. As such, we can measure whether some cultures are more moral than others, by measuring the degree of suppression of parasitism (free riding) that is suppressed by law and norm. So not only is morality absolute, but the relative moral content of different cultures is absolute. That this difference determines economic velocity, and economic velocity affords us greater morality (if we choose it) is the more interesting area of inquiry. Cheers Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • Lending Then Repossessing Your Violence

    [I] was born with a wealth of violence. I lend that violence to the state to use on my behalf collective gain. However, should the state no longer work in my interests, or should any man break my contract for cooperation, I reserve my right to withdraw my deposit of violence and use it to both restore cooperation and to restore the state to the pursuit of my interests. It’s not complicated.

  • Lending Then Repossessing Your Violence

    [I] was born with a wealth of violence. I lend that violence to the state to use on my behalf collective gain. However, should the state no longer work in my interests, or should any man break my contract for cooperation, I reserve my right to withdraw my deposit of violence and use it to both restore cooperation and to restore the state to the pursuit of my interests. It’s not complicated.

  • Position on Marriage?  It’s a Contract.

    [M]y position is that the state has no place in private contracts, and that a marriage is a private contract.

    My concern is that the nation produce laws for individuals and policy for families and this may further reduce the policy bias toward the family as a unit of production and reproduction, and increasingly toward the consumption (hedonism) of individuals – dysgenia.

    A marriage creates a corporation in which shareholders pool assets, and it conveys limited power of attorney, to both (or more) shareholders to act on behalf of the other. If prenuptial agreements are adhered to rigidly, and there is no child support or spousal support then I am happy with it.

    So my suggestion is to take the Alabama strategy and remove the state from marriage agreements, and let people engage in whatever relations they want.

    So I am against state marriage en toto, and fully supportive of any voluntary contract that people wish to enter into. I would be comfortable with polygamy/polyamory evolving. But when I say I believe these things, it’s in the context of freedom of association and disassociation. So if you don’t want to serve polygamists, you don’t have to.

  • Position on Marriage?  It’s a Contract.

    [M]y position is that the state has no place in private contracts, and that a marriage is a private contract.

    My concern is that the nation produce laws for individuals and policy for families and this may further reduce the policy bias toward the family as a unit of production and reproduction, and increasingly toward the consumption (hedonism) of individuals – dysgenia.

    A marriage creates a corporation in which shareholders pool assets, and it conveys limited power of attorney, to both (or more) shareholders to act on behalf of the other. If prenuptial agreements are adhered to rigidly, and there is no child support or spousal support then I am happy with it.

    So my suggestion is to take the Alabama strategy and remove the state from marriage agreements, and let people engage in whatever relations they want.

    So I am against state marriage en toto, and fully supportive of any voluntary contract that people wish to enter into. I would be comfortable with polygamy/polyamory evolving. But when I say I believe these things, it’s in the context of freedom of association and disassociation. So if you don’t want to serve polygamists, you don’t have to.

  • “Since 2010, the Associated Press recently reported, the number of abortions nat

    —“Since 2010, the Associated Press recently reported, the number of abortions nationwide has decreased by about 12 percent. This decline has been happening, slowly and steadily, for a quarter of a century: Since 1990, the rate of abortions has fallen by more than a third, and the raw number of abortions has fallen by more than half.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-17 11:11:00 UTC

  • Outlaw religions with dual ethics – Its fraud. Outlaw religions with laws – it’s

    Outlaw religions with dual ethics – Its fraud.

    Outlaw religions with laws – it’s fraud.

    There is but one negative law: imposition of costs.

    There is but one positive law: love.

    Any other doctrine is one of warfare: power, not religion: cooperation.

    The prohibition on the establishment of a religion is not the same as the extirpation of fraud.

    Truth is enough.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-17 04:35:00 UTC

  • NUMBERS ARE NAMES OF ANALOGIES, NOT REFERENTS I can make up a name but it points

    NUMBERS ARE NAMES OF ANALOGIES, NOT REFERENTS

    I can make up a name but it points to nothing other than itself.

    I can make names that correspond to counts of something or other.

    (bait)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-17 03:14:00 UTC

  • NO COURT FOR DOOLITTLE My divorce lawyer would not allow me on the stand, becaus

    NO COURT FOR DOOLITTLE

    My divorce lawyer would not allow me on the stand, because he assumed (rightfully) that I would make a travesty of the courtroom, (I have before) and end up in jail for it. (He was right.)

    The court operates on the pretense that it provides justice, when the fact is that the state is just as complicit a co-conspirator as any other predator.

    I always go to court if I can. It increases the costs to everyone for failing to come to resolution outside of court. And it provides a wonderful stage to mock the state. So unlike my peers I tend to favor aggressive litigation – for the sole purpose that it creates a reputation that going to court is expensive, time-consuming, unpredictable, and embarrassing. I hate settlement.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-17 00:25:00 UTC

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    http://www.prageruniversity.com/Political-Science/Why-Do-People-Become-Islamic-Extremists.htmlhttp://www.prageruniversity.com/Political-Science/Why-Do-People-Become-Islamic-Extremists.html

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-16 15:40:00 UTC