Author: Curt Doolittle

1) Acquisitiveness: To survive and reproduce, humans must acquire and inventory many categories of resources, and evolved to demonstrate constant acquisitiveness of those resources.

3) Property: The scope of those things they act upon, or choose not to act upon, in anticipation of obtaining property, constitute their demonstrated definition of property-en-toto.* (See Butler Schaeffer)

4) Value: Human emotions evolved to reflect changes in state of property-en-toto.* As such nearly all emotions can be expressed in terms of reactions to property. (imposed costs here, pre-moral, but also pre-cooperation, and only defense and retaliation, not cooperation)

2) Non-Conflict: That which humans act to obtain without imposition upon in-group members they evolved to intuit as their property, and demonstrate this intuition by defense of their inventory, and punishment of transgressors.

5) Cooperative Production: That which humans act in concert with one another to produce

5) Moral (cooperative) Intuitions(instincts): Moral intuitions reflect prohibitions on free riding by members with whom one cooperates in production and reproduction. (This is where free riding enters.)

6) Distribution of Intuitions by Reproductive Strategy: Moral intuitions vary in intensity to suit one’s reproductive strategy. This intensity and distribution of moral intuition varies between males and females, as well as between classes and between groups.

7) Variation By Family Structure: Moral rules reflect prohibitions on free riding given the structure of the family in relation to the necessary and available structure of production.

8) Resolution of Disputes: Property rights were developed in law as the positive enumeration in contractual form, of those moral rules which any polity (corporation) agrees to enforce with the promise of violence for the purpose of restitution or punishment. Conversely, any possible property rights not expressed, the community (corporation) is unwilling to adjudicate, restore or punish, or has not yet discovered the need to construct.

9) Instrumentation: Property rights are necessary for the instrumental measurement of moral prohibitions because of the unobservability of changes in human emotional states, and our inability to determine truth from falsehood. And as such we require an observable proxy for evidence of changes in state.

10) Family: As a general rule, as the division of knowledge and labor increases, so must the atomicity of property rights, and as a consequence, the size of the family must decline {Consanguineous, Punaluan, Pairing (Serial Marriage), Hetaeristic, Traditional, Stem, Nuclear, Absolute Nuclear}.

11) Trust: As a general rule, for the size of the family to decrease, trust must increase, and trust can only increase with expansion of property rights to include prohibitions on unethical actions.

11) Moral Competition: As a general rule, the scope of moral prohibitions expressed as property rights, must increase to limit demand for authority.

12) Demand for Authority: As a general rule, if a delay in the production of property rights evolves, then demand for authority will fill the vacuum with authority to either suppress retaliation (conflict) or to prevent circumstances leading to conflict, or both.

13) Governments, particularly empires (of which states are merely a smaller class), in an effort to first create a standard “weight and measure” in the practice of law, imposed uniform codes on sub groups, for all subgroups under their management, and second, to centralize rent seeking.

14) Governments then expanded the law to include commands, not uniform standards. Thereby conflating the imposition of standards of law, with the creation of commands holding the status of law – commands that were only law by analogy.

15) Governments, by homogenizing law, centralized law (and command), and by centralizing law (and command), centralized rent-seeking (and increased it.) Note: this often forced tribal leaders and family elders out of rent seeking and power, and into production, thus lowering transaction costs for production and trade at the expense of increasing overall costs of the parasitic bureaucracy.

(….Add: free riding and commons…)

16) Aristocracy sought to prevent centralization in favor of competing jurisdictions that adapt quickly. Bureaucracy sought to centralize a homogenous jurisdiction that provided certainty (stability).

17) Libertarians (classical liberals), seek to purge rent seeking, from the central system, and return to aristocracy

18) Libertines (cosmopolitans) seek to restore unethical and immoral action – and non-conflict (non-cooperation) rather than moral and therefore productive cooperation.)

19) Liberty: ……….(liberty as tariff , slavey, right to local law and custom, libertarianism as standard weight and measure) – not free riding however.