Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • There is a vast difference between minimum liberty necessary for the market and

    There is a vast difference between minimum liberty necessary for the market and maximum liberty for our personal desires.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-10 07:26:00 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/476263998963580928

    Reply addressees: @LibertarianMike

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/476254956362932224

    IN REPLY TO:

    @LibertarianMike

    “We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most mora… http://t.co/sjOxDz3kQl

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  • Unfortnately Hayek fails to state that others prefer the minimum liberty to secu

    Unfortnately Hayek fails to state that others prefer the minimum liberty to secure predictability, while we the maximum.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-10 07:24:17 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/476263567952723968

    Reply addressees: @LibertarianMike

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/476254956362932224

    IN REPLY TO:

    @LibertarianMike

    “We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most mora… http://t.co/sjOxDz3kQl

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/476254956362932224

  • OPEN COURSEWARE OFFERINGS I have tried a few and unfortunately the quality varie

    http://oedb.org/ilibrarian/top-89-open-courseware-projects/TOP OPEN COURSEWARE OFFERINGS

    I have tried a few and unfortunately the quality varies from tragically incompetent to surprisingly good.

    When i was in college i chose courses based upon the books listed in the bookstore.

    As far as I can tell, a professor’s syllabus is his most important contribution.

    If he asks a daily thought question in a forum then responds to replies, thats pretty good.

    Mostly i have just met other interesting people.

    But there is no substitute for living at a university.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-10 05:52:00 UTC

  • UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS: PARENTING IS OVERRATED —“Good” parenting simply can’t re

    UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS: PARENTING IS OVERRATED

    —“Good” parenting simply can’t rescue the genetically predisposed from delinquency, and neither can “bad” parenting (provided it’s not too extremely so) hold back the genetically gifted. These should serve as final nails in the coffin for the case for the efficacy of parenting. There is simply no more to debate.”—

    Love your kids. You will determine whether they are happy or not. But your genes determine whether they will be successful of delinquent.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-10 05:39:00 UTC

  • Silly. Rant. Can we just make it easy on humanity and ask the jews to run scienc

    Silly. Rant.

    Can we just make it easy on humanity and ask the jews to run science and medicine? Ask white people to run government, law, military and engineering. Those are white people specialties. Good division of labor. Banking will be a dead business soon. Thats the point of contention and it will be eliminated.

    I love my people. But there are just things that you want the ashkenazim for: anything personal that requires understanding. And there are things you want white people for: anything political that requires judgement.

    I am always relieved when i meet a jewish doctor, or a white lawyer. I don’t think too much of the opposite arrangement.

    Its gotta be genetic.

    Did you ever notice that white folk really like moral and witty, but disdain cunning?

    My anglo roots.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-10 05:06:00 UTC

  • DRAFT: RULES OF ETHICAL ARGUMENT 1) The set of positive or negative statements a

    DRAFT: RULES OF ETHICAL ARGUMENT

    1) The set of positive or negative statements alone is not a sufficient description of any moral rule.

    If you cannot state both the positive and negative assertions you do not yet understand that which you claim.

    Examples:

    The right of association (positive) and the right of exclusion (negative).

    The right to property (positive), the prohibition on free riding(negative).

    Do unto others as you would have others do unto you (positive), do not unto others that you do not want done to you (negative).

    2) If you cannot state your argument in operational language then you do not understand it sufficiently to make a truth claim.

    Nothing “is”. The verb to-be is used to obscure one’s causal ignorance – man acts. Nothing “is” independent of action describing its conception.

    3) Cooperation vs Free Riding.

    (Undone:)

    4) Morals: Moral rules prohibit free riding. Rules enumerating criminal, ethical, moral, conspiratorial and conquest prohibitions constitute the sets of prohibitions on free riding from the most individual and direct to the most collective and indirect.

    5) Fully informed voluntary consent to transfer, is the only test of moral action. Any action causing transfer (imposing cost) without fully informed voluntary consent is immoral – a violation of the prohibition on free riding that is the necessary precondition for rational mutually beneficial cooperation.

    6) Exchanges (production): fully informed, mutually productive, warrantied, voluntary exchange exclusive of negative externality is the only test of moral exchange.

    These are six of the laws of ethical argument.

    (Undone: add property / commons )

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-10 04:33:00 UTC

  • LIBERTY AS LUXURY, POSSIBILITY, OR IMPOSSIBILITY (worth repeating) —“So whethe

    LIBERTY AS LUXURY, POSSIBILITY, OR IMPOSSIBILITY

    (worth repeating)

    —“So whether one chooses the necessary and sufficient arguments of Aristocratic Egalitarian Libertarianism (Aristocracy), or the luxuries of humanitarian libertarianism (Classical Liberalism), that is merely a preference, not a question of possibility. While the choice of rothbardian ‘thin’ libertarianism (Libertinism) is just the opposite: it’s impossible.”—

    We do not get to choose the incentives that will produce a voluntary anarchic polity. We can estimate them. Wet can test them. We can demonstrate them. We can measure them. But we cannot choose them.

    Transaction costs determine the desirability of different polities. The rational choice of a voluntary, anarchic polity over a statist polity requires a high trust society.

    Once one possesses a voluntary, high trust society, one can also engage in the production and consumption of luxuries – commons. But luxuries are not the same as necessities.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-10 02:29:00 UTC

  • MAGIC OF HUMAN BEINGS This is how you earn your place among the gods

    http://digg.com/video/youre-going-to-love-this-polish-street-musicianTHE MAGIC OF HUMAN BEINGS

    This is how you earn your place among the gods….

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-09 14:36:00 UTC

  • “The market will demand lords, and the market will provide.”— Priceless

    —“The market will demand lords, and the market will provide.”—

    Priceless.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-09 13:42:00 UTC

  • Most friends Follow Eli Harman and now probably ought to watch Paul Bakhmut. Con

    Most friends Follow Eli Harman and now probably ought to watch Paul Bakhmut.

    Contrary to Kinsella’s fallacy, critique and smokescreen nonsense, that Propertarian and Aristocratic Egalitarian arguments are incomprehensible, these two guys who pretty much have it down. And they are getting better by the day.

    Gotta’ get Chris Cantwell on board eventually. But he might not be up for the rigor. He does well in the moral, psychological and utilitarian end of the spectrum already.

    We will see. 😉

    Dragging poor souls out of the fallacy of moral intuition one at a time.

    Someone has to do it. 😉

    We are making progress.

    Argument is an art.

    😉

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-09 13:40:00 UTC