–“You don’t have a right to rights. Pay full price, like everyone else.”– Eli Harman
–“The entrance fee to the land of Liberty is your contractual obligation to risk life, limb and property to obtain and defend it. Free riders have permission only – not Liberty. Only fee paying members have existential rights.”– Curt Doolittle (Punish the wicked.)
Guest Post By Eli Harman
[L]iberty can triumph because liberty is the most robust sort of authoritarianism. You can kill a king. You can corrupt a democracy. But a distributed dictatorship of free men is practically irresistible and unassailable in comparison. Its power derives from a degree of all-seeing omnipresence that exceeds even the wildest fantasies of an autocrat; yet does not detract from its adaptability, resilience or ability to react rapidly to nearly any contingency.
( Damn. Very smart. -Curt.)
Guest Post By Eli Harman
[L]iberty can triumph because liberty is the most robust sort of authoritarianism. You can kill a king. You can corrupt a democracy. But a distributed dictatorship of free men is practically irresistible and unassailable in comparison. Its power derives from a degree of all-seeing omnipresence that exceeds even the wildest fantasies of an autocrat; yet does not detract from its adaptability, resilience or ability to react rapidly to nearly any contingency.
( Damn. Very smart. -Curt.)
So is he right? is that what we are searching for? not philosophy as a discipline, but a philosophical psychology? Are science, philosophy, truth telling, and psychology simply obvious if they are in fact the same discipline approached in different languages, just as we chose religion, stargazing, and magic before we had developed science?
Source date (UTC): 2014-12-04 06:18:00 UTC
Well, of course you can be wealthier if you don’t pay the costs of holding a monopoly on a territory. Free riding is profitable.
Source date (UTC): 2014-12-04 06:14:00 UTC
I have been working on this idea, and I finally gotten close to expressing it tangibly as measurement. The examples I give are the golden(positive) vs the silver rule(negative), property(positive) vs property rights(negative). And I want to construct a general rule for requiring both positive(contextual precision) and negative(general rule). Because I feel its necessary to unify the sciences, philosophy morality and law in order to eliminate ‘escape routes’ by various forms of verbalism, that man will try to employ as a means of circumventing the moral constraint of truth-speaking.
Source date (UTC): 2014-12-04 01:58:00 UTC
Curt Doolittle shared a post.
Source date (UTC): 2014-12-04 01:19:00 UTC
Curt Doolittle shared a post.
Source date (UTC): 2014-12-04 00:54:00 UTC
WE DISCOVERED TRUTH TELLING
I think that while Propertarianism does provide the missing logic of cooperation that Mises promised us, and that the prohibition of free riding is the single cooperative problem to be overcome, that the central proposition of Propertarianism is the western struggle to testify truthfully to one’s jury, and that trust is the result of that struggle, and economic velocity the result of that trust. And that economic velocity is the reason for both phases of the west’s rapid advancement: the classical and modern worlds that both times have dragged man out of ignorance, and in our most recent case, dragged him out of poverty.
So if I want something to be learned, it is that: we discovered truth telling.
Source date (UTC): 2014-12-03 14:19:00 UTC
The entrance fee to the land of Liberty is your contractual obligation to risk life, limb and property to obtain and defend it.
Free riders have permission only – not Liberty. Only fee paying members have existential rights.
(Punish the wicked.)
Source date (UTC): 2014-12-03 14:06:00 UTC