Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • DEADLY SINS” (important) Propertarianism captures the universal human moral intu

    http://www.propertarianism.com/”PROPERTARIANISM’S DEADLY SINS” (important)

    Propertarianism captures the universal human moral intuition that prohibits involuntary transfer, and then presses all competition into the market for goods and services under the requirements of transparency and warranty so that competition is, while intuitively immoral to many, a system of incentives that produces a virtuous cycle of innovation, production and adaptation.

    All rights in all moral systems are reducible to statements of property rights – assuming we take a descriptive definition of property not a proscriptive one.

    DEADLY SINS

    Murder

    Violence

    Theft

    Fraud

    Omission

    Impedance

    Externalization

    Free-Riding

    Privatization

    Socialization

    Rent-Seeking

    Corruption

    Obfuscation

    Pooling-and-Laundering

    Conspiracy

    Legislation

    Taxation

    Conscription

    War

    Genocide

    Do you want to know why my book is taking so long?

    Because there are a lot of deadly sins.

    http://www.propertarianism.com/

    VIRTUES

    Property,

    symmetry,

    warranty,

    internality,

    operational language,

    “calculability”,

    contract,

    natural law,

    common law,

    voluntary commons.

    Still not done with the second list. I need to find a way to talk about calculability more accessibly.

    PROPERTIES

    Personal (Private, Several)

    Interpersonal

    Normative

    Institutional

    Artificial

    PROPERTARIANISM IS THE RHETORICAL SOLUTION TO POLITICAL DISCOURSE

    It’s what praxeology should have been. It’s what conservatives and libertarians need. It’s what progressives and progressive libertarians should fear. Because it’s true. Its explanatory power is universal, and independent of any moral code. And it is based upon testable empirical science. Humans vehemently reject involuntary transfers of property. They just differ on the distribution of ownership of property. And they differ because of their necessary and inalterable reproductive strategies.

    COMMON GOODS

    There can be no common good unless there are common interests. We can learn from the market that we can cooperate on means even if we have alternate ends. But democracy is a family model, and assumes de facto, that we have common or optimally common ends. When we do not, because reproductive and productive strategies are not longer sufficiently homogenous. Democracy can assist us in establishing priorities from common interests, but it cannot assist us in establishing goals between disparate and conflicting interests – such as those that we have under a division of knowledge and labor as extreme as under industrialism and information economies.

    MONOPOLY

    There is no reason for monopoly bureaucracy and monopoly government in a diverse heterogeneous population. In this environment democracy is simply a means of conquest of one or more groups by others.

    It is possible to construct means of achieving the benefits of scale organizations in insurance, investment in the commons, and group bargaining over trade. And to do so without a monopoly.

    Democratic and representative government is an artifact of the age of agrarianism and sail. It’s time for a reformation. We have to adapt government to our new diversity. And that means, small states, and governments that facilitate ANY cooperation, not just those that are approved by the majority. And that approach will make law making impossible, only contract negotiation. Because laws are local phenomenon, and contracts for the commons are not. They are merely cooperation at scale, on goods that cannot be produced by the market because free riding prohibits their construction.

    More later. But that is the essence of Propertarianism in a few thousand words.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-10 07:21:00 UTC

  • (inspiriation) JUST WRITE Write as if you’re speaking. After you write it, go ba

    (inspiriation)

    JUST WRITE

    Write as if you’re speaking. After you write it, go back and edit it. You will make more, better, spontaneous and creative associations than you will if you deliberate terribly much.

    Don’t worry about structure, sentence structure, punctuation or anything. Just stream of consciousness. Craftsmanship improves good ideas. But there is no point in applying craftsmanship to drivel. And most deliberate thought is contrived, loaded, framed, and the victim of our biases. Just put your soul out there. If it’s a decent soul then you can dress it up with craftsmanship and take it out in public.

    If it’s not a decent soul then no amount of craftsmanship will hide it.

    Cheers.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-10 06:29:00 UTC

  • ANIMAL RIGHTS If you cannot be trusted with the care of an animal – pet or prope

    ANIMAL RIGHTS

    If you cannot be trusted with the care of an animal – pet or property. Then we cannot trust you with care of the rest of us.

    Simple people use empathy toward animals moral and legal claims, and anthropomorphize all sorts of things instead of using reason.

    But what they intuit in their arationalism is at least functionally correct if not causally correct.

    The seek to protect the victim because it is less aggressive and confrontational than punishing the actor. It is an effective technique but a dishonest one.

    And as such, these people – sensitives – perform a function even though their arguments are arational justifications of their intuitions.

    Unfortunately their arationality creates consequences that are morally, politically and legally damaging to civilization.

    Those of us who because of our lack of fear in confrontation or punishment, have the luxury of honesty, certainly feel compassion for our pets, animals and wildlife. But we correctly understand that not only are the animals a commons that they should respect no matter who cares for them, but that someone sick enough to harm creatures for emotional reasons of any kind, is a danger to all of us. And science has thankfully finally proven why – genetic and birth defect exacerbated by living in families with the same defects.

    Tolerance is not a good thing without accompaniment by training. Without correction it is not tolerance but convenience.

    Animals cannot have rights since they cannot enter into contract. A few pets to some degree can closely imitate that contract (dogs) at the level if a child when dependency forms.

    Humans have contractual obligations with each other not to be cruel to animals. As such it is your contractual duty to the rest of us – your price for our promise not to use violence against you, and to cooperate peaceably with you – that you treat animals as if they are human whenever possible as a ritualistic test of your adherence to contract.

    This contract is a necessary natural law that does not need codification. Natural laws are the minimum rules for peaceful cooperation. They are reducible to statements of property rights. And they are necessary. Human rights are not necessary, they are aspirations once natural rights have been achieved.

    And should you break that contract if natural law, the foolish and weak may shame you and claim animals have rights because they lack the intelligence, wisdom, means and capacity to punish you for violating natural law and demonstrating you are unfit for the contract by which we agree to cooperate, and rescind our use of violence.

    But those of us wise and strong enough will be honest with you.

    And since you have broken the contract of natural law with us, we are no longer forbidden to use violence.

    And we will logically, rationally, wisely, and legally under natural law, punish you sufficiently that you either will not, or cannot, do so again.

    That punishment too, is part of the contract that the strong agree to.

    Curt

    (Propertarianism in application)

    ( also another example of solipsism on one end and autism on the other. )

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-10 04:59:00 UTC

  • PUTIN SCHOOL OF NATURAL LAW “It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to se

    PUTIN SCHOOL OF NATURAL LAW

    “It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional. We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.” (This was not only an ideological, but theological contradistinction)

    — Vladimir Putin.

    COMMENT

    This is an appeal to natural law. There is a law higher than our hubris may construct. It is required for the rule of law. And it is by consequence the language of statesmen.

    Its absence is the language of politicians.

    The west is exceptional for its natural law and balance of powers. For its private property rights. For science and reason.

    It is interesting that Obama should need to be schooled in such important matters by Putin.

    Terrifying.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-10 03:33:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/29/sunday-review/how-5-countries-could-become-14.html

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-09 21:45:00 UTC

  • YA. NOW GUESS WHY. America is growing more conservaitive on meritocracy. Free ri

    http://shar.es/EgwN4TOLD YA. NOW GUESS WHY.

    America is growing more conservaitive on meritocracy. Free riding is a sin. 😐

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-09 21:10:00 UTC

  • “CONSERVATIVES WANT TO MAINTAIN THE LAW OF KARMA” Great way of explaining conser

    “CONSERVATIVES WANT TO MAINTAIN THE LAW OF KARMA”

    Great way of explaining conservative sanctity and proportionality.

    Haidt Rules.

    (thanks roman)

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-09 20:23:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a photo

    Curt Doolittle shared a photo.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-09 19:35:00 UTC

  • YOU’RE STILL LEGALLY DEAD You cannot make this stuff up. Really. So lets return

    http://www.thecourier.com/Issues/2013/Oct/08/ar_news_100813_story2.asp?d=100813_story2,2013,Oct,08&c=nDAVE, YOU’RE STILL LEGALLY DEAD

    You cannot make this stuff up. Really. So lets return to juries and the common law. OK?

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-09 19:25:00 UTC

  • SHUTDOWN: HOW TO REBUILD THE CIVIL SOCIETY. Keep it shutdown

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/citizen-lawn-mower-at-lincoln-memorial-also-blows-leaves-and-cuts-up-downed-branches/2013/10/09/0383e710-3120-11e3-89ae-16e186e117d8_story.html(inspiring)

    SHUTDOWN: HOW TO REBUILD THE CIVIL SOCIETY.

    Keep it shutdown.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-09 17:28:00 UTC