THANK YOU
For my friends and family.
Source date (UTC): 2013-09-12 05:54:00 UTC
THANK YOU
For my friends and family.
Source date (UTC): 2013-09-12 05:54:00 UTC
http://www.propertarianism.com/defining-propertarianism/THE NON AGGRESSION PRINCIPLE IS NECESSARY BUT INSUFFICIENT
(Re-Posted from elsewhere for archival purposes.)
THE NAP IS AN EPISTEMIC TEST
The NAP is an EPISTEMOLOGICAL TEST. It lets us know what actions are ethical or unethical, moral or immoral, constructive or destructive of a peaceful social order.
The NAP states only that you do not INITIATE violence -aggression – against others or their property. It does not mean that we do not DEFEND ourselves or property if we or our property is subject to involuntary transfer or damage.
INSUFFICIENCY
We do not argue that the NAP is a SUFFICIENT informal institution for a social order. And it does not address formal institutions at all, only limits them. But it is SUFFICIENT test of ethics and morality for political statements in ANY social order. It is sufficient test of ethics and morality necessary for the development of a division of knowledge and labor. And the prosperity that results from a division of knowledge and labor is a universal demonstrated preference of all polities.
PROPERTY AS A SPECTRUM
The question that the NAP does not answer, is the definition of property and it’s distribution between the individual and the commons. That is because libertarian ethics does not allow for informal commons, only explicitly stated shareholder agreements as the vehicle for commons, and private property as the only form of property morally extant.
So the NAP does not expressly state that only private property exists and can exist, in a moral social order, but it is implied, and all libertarians simply assume it’s obvious (but it’s not.)
COMPACT WITH BROAD EXPLANATORY POWER
The NAP is an exceptionally good theory because it is COMPACT, has universal explanatory power, is testable and falsifiable both logically and empirically.
THE DEFINITION OF PROPERTY
Now, just so that I can help better intellectually arm fellow libertarians, there is a definition of property: “That which people act as if is their property.” We talk about PRIVATE property. And we advocate the reduction of all rights to PRIVATE property rights.
I’ve enumerated it here under ‘Scope of Property Rights’: http://www.propertarianism.com/defining-propertarianism/
THE ALLOCATION OF PROPERTY RIGHTS
So it’s not that we lack a definition of property it’s that the allocation of property between the individual and the commons varies with the family structure that the individual comes from, and the structure of production he comes from, and the moral intuitions that he or she has, which appear to be genetic, and largely correlate gender.
THE DEFINITION OF LIBERTARIAN
As for liberty, I think that the definition of libertarian is well established and has finally been empirically established by data from Jonathan Haidt: libertarian is a preference to grant freedom from coercion higher moral status than the other five moral instincts. The left treats harm-care highest, and almost exclusively, and the right treats all six moral values equally.
That is what libertarians share in common. We simply use different arguments and different institutional solutions to advocate for our desired moral bias.
ARTICULATING OUR IDEAS
So neither of these statements helps us a great deal in arguing in FAVOR of libertarianism over some other clam. But they help us in articulating our ideas clearly.
Source date (UTC): 2013-09-12 05:16:00 UTC
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html
Source date (UTC): 2013-09-11 06:07:00 UTC
http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/469/2159/20130395WHO WERE THE FIRST EGYPTIANS?
Source date (UTC): 2013-09-10 23:01:00 UTC
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnchisholm/2013/09/10/as-entrepreneurs-keep-reminding-us-they-lied-to-us-in-econ-101/QUICKIE ENTREPRENEUR LOVE FROM FORBES
Source date (UTC): 2013-09-10 22:54:00 UTC
MATRILINEALITY IN BONOBOS IS POSSIBLE BECAUSE THEY AREN’T INTELLIGENT ENOUGH TO HAVE PROPERTY – BUT
The goal of Feminism is to restore female control over society by sexual exchange rather than property rights. And to do so by eliminating property rights. (Which in feminist terms means ‘sharing equal responsibility for children’.) And to eliminate property rights through Incremental socialism. Using majority rule where they have the numbers.
(Dear ladies, no need to read this and get mad at me. I’m for equal rights. But not for female privilege, or equal outcome. )
Maternal societies are statistically insignificant, tend to be outcasts from larger more successful societies, have very small populations, and are dirt poor.
Pacifist, sedentary, earth worshipping, matrilineal agrarianism was natural to western europeans – and so was small-size, short life spans, and low birth weights.
Innovative, mobile, expansionist, sun-worshipping, pastoralist paternalism was the INNOVATION that made regular access to meat, Reason, Science, technology and the CONCENTRATION OF CAPITAL possible.
Women don’t concentrate capital. They favor the uniform tyranny of equalitarianism. They want the economy to be based upon sex and affection, not productivity. That’s why “equality” is the cause of poverty. The incentives are for sex not for production.
The depth of where this argument goes will demonstrate why evolution tested both models and the masculine model survived the test.
The Fact is, that the intellectual reformation currently in progress is demonstrating in every discipline that both postmodern and feminist dogma consists of ideological argument unsupported by the the data.
Period.
People choose prosperity (freedom to choose to consume) in all circumstances. That is the test of ‘happiness’. Not survey data. Not subjective judgement. If it relies upon survey data, or subjective interpretation rather than demonstrated preference then it is not science. It’s propaganda.
We have to forgive Jill Hamilton, who writes otherwise titillating chick-pop articles that cross into male interest because she is not an academic or public intellectual. She must find material that catches eyeballs. Thats her job, and as readers its the job we want her to do.
But as an eyeball catcher, one must be somewhat cautious, if not infinitely skeptical of academic propaganda.
Jill could have positioned this book as questionable but fun to consider, without personally committing to support of it or its ideas. And in doing so both caught eyeballs and preserved her journalistic credibility.
It’s not understood by journalists (who aren’t generally from the top of the class by the way) that the number of academic papers and books that survive scrutiny is minuscule, and almost all of them – at least with regard to the big questions – are produced by a handful of intellectuals at our most prestigious universities.
The current exception is probably Jonathan Haidt who, from Virginia has reformed most of our understanding of political morality. But assuming he continues he’ll end up teaching at the top ten at some point.
But we must keep in mind that the entire feminist and progressive programs were based on work by women like Jane Goodall and her followers who told us how nice primates were in nature. When in fact, that entire generation’s work in the study of nature and of anthropology was universally false. Chimps are brutal raping predatory murderers. In fact, the only animal that shares our understanding of intentionality, or our social structure, is the domestic dog.
Feminism, liberalism and postmodernism are simply the names we have given to communism and socialism now that those two programs have failed in both theory and practice.
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TO: CURT DOOLITTLE
FROM: Afiq Syamim Salleh
“Chimps are brutal raping predatory murderers”
Wait..you miss on bonobos,it’s a matriarch,very promiscuous,less violent than chimps and the closest DNA related to humans.We’re heading for that future(possible).I’m sure feminist are very happy if humans are more like bonobos.
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TO: AFIQ SYAMIM SALLEH
FROM : CURT DOOLITTLE
Good point. But bonobos don’t have, and aren’t capable of, establishing property and a division of labor.
It’s property and the division of labor that creates both prosperity and Paternalism by removing reproductive control from the female exchange of sex and affection under hunting and gathering, to the exchange of property for the purpose of coordinating production, and forcing reproduction to be based upon productivity and innovation.
Most feminist academics know this, as well as did the Marxists, since Engels wrote about it in the 19th century.
It’s not that females are in control that makes Bonobos maternalistic, it’s that they lack the intelligence and ability to coordinate their actions in a division of knowledge and labor.
Cooperation among apes is unique to man. Period. The idea of apes helping one another is…. impossible. Absurd.
Yet it is possible for dogs.
Just to make feminists frustrated now and then with their fantasies, I tend to remind them that while there are no female jack the rippers, the most fruitful serial killer was indeed female. And while you once and awhile get a Curie, you’ll never get a female Newton.
Maternalism is regression to primitivism. Paternalism was an evolution. An evolution made possible by the development of property.
Source date (UTC): 2013-09-10 19:35:00 UTC
The source of freedom is the organized application of violence to create it. Without the application if violence it cannot exist. Without the application of violence it will not exist.
Politics is organized violence. Violence is the only tool of government.
Source date (UTC): 2013-09-10 18:49:00 UTC
http://quarry.stanford.edu/xapm1111126lse/docs/02_LSE_Cognitive.pdfEXCELLENCE DISTILLED
(Read it)
Most simple and straightforward description of the personality of innovators.
“Boy before the mirror…”
Source date (UTC): 2013-09-10 18:37:00 UTC
MATRILINEALITY IN BONOBOS IS POSSIBLE BECAUSE THEY AREN’T INTELLIGENT ENOUGH TO HAVE PROPERTY – WHICH IS WHY FEMINISM IS A SOCIALIST STRATEGY: THE ELIMINATION OF PRIVATE PROPERTY.
The goal is to restore female control over society by sexual exchange rather than property rights. By eliminating property rights. (Which in feminist terms means ‘sharing equal responsibility for children’.)
(Dear ladies, no need to read this and get mad at me. I’m for equal rights. But not for female privilege. Or equal outcome. )
Maternal societies are statistically insignificant, tend to be outcasts from larger more successful societies, have very small populations, and are dirt poor.
Pacifist, sedentary, earth worshipping, agrarian matrilineality was natural to western europeans – and so was small-size, short life spans, and low birth weights.
Innovative, mobile, expansionist, sun-worshipping, pastoralist paternalism was the INNOVATION that made regular access to meat, Reason, Science, technology and the CONCENTRATION OF CAPITAL possible.
Women don’t concentrate capital. They favor the uniform tyranny of equalitarianism. They want the economy to be based upon sex and affection, not productivity. That’s why “equality” is the cause of poverty. The incentives are for sex not for production.
The depth of where this argument goes will demonstrate why evolution tested both models and the masculine model survived the test.
The Fact is, that the intellectual reformation currently in progress is demonstrating in every discipline that both postmodern and feminist dogma consists of ideological argument unsupported by the the data.
Period.
People choose prosperity (freedom to choose to consume) in all circumstances. That is the test of ‘happiness’. Not survey data. Not subjective judgement. If it relies upon survey data, or subjective interpretation rather than demonstrated preference then it is not science. It’s propaganda.
We have to forgive Jill Hamilton, who writes otherwise titillating chick-pop articles that cross into male interest because she is not an academic or public intellectual. She must find material that catches eyeballs. Thats her job, and as readers its the job we want her to do.
But as an eyeball catcher, one must be somewhat cautious, if not infinitely skeptical of academic propaganda.
Jill could have positioned this book as questionable but fun to consider, without personally committing to support of it or its ideas. And in doing so both caught eyeballs and preserved her journalistic credibility.
It’s not understood by journalists (who aren’t generally from the top of the class by the way) that the number of academic papers and books that survive scrutiny is minuscule, and almost all of them – at least with regard to the big questions – are produced by a handful of intellectuals at our most prestigious universities.
The current exception is probably Jonathan Haidt who, from Virginia has reformed most of our understanding of political morality. But assuming he continues he’ll end up teaching at the top ten at some point.
But we must keep in mind that the entire feminist and progressive programs were based on work by women like Jane Goodall and her followers who told us how nice primates were in nature. When in fact, that entire generation’s work in the study of nature and of anthropology was universally false. Chimps are brutal raping predatory murderers. In fact, the only animal that shares our understanding of intentionality, or our social structure, is the domestic dog.
Feminism, liberalism and postmodernism are simply the names we have given to communism and socialism now that those two programs have failed in both theory and practice.
========
TO: CURT DOOLITTLE
FROM: Afiq Syamim Salleh
“Chimps are brutal raping predatory murderers”
Wait..you miss on bonobos,it’s a matriarch,very promiscuous,less violent than chimps and the closest DNA related to humans.We’re heading for that future(possible).I’m sure feminist are very happy if humans are more like bonobos.
=========
TO: AFIQ SYAMIM SALLEH
FROM : CURT DOOLITTLE
Good point. But bonobos don’t have, and aren’t capable of, establishing property and a division of labor.
It’s property and the division of labor that creates both prosperity and Paternalism by removing reproductive control from the female exchange of sex and affection under hunting and gathering, to the exchange of property for the purpose of coordinating production, and forcing reproduction to be based upon productivity and innovation.
Most feminist academics know this, as well as did the Marxists, since Engels wrote about it in the 19th century.
It’s not that females are in control that makes Bonobos maternalistic, it’s that they lack the intelligence and ability to coordinate their actions in a division of knowledge and labor.
Cooperation among apes is unique to man. Period. The idea of apes helping one another is…. impossible. Absurd.
Yet it is possible for dogs.
Just to make feminists frustrated now and then with their fantasies, I tend to remind them that while there are no female jack the rippers, the most fruitful serial killer was indeed female. And while you once and awhile get a Curie, you’ll never get a female Newton.
Maternalism is regression to primitivism. Paternalism was an evolution. An evolution made possible by the development of property.
Source date (UTC): 2013-09-10 14:13:00 UTC
DEATH AND FEAR
You know, once you’ve thought you were going to die a few times, it’s pretty liberating. Life is something to enjoy. To experience. To consume. Death is something you recognize, and try to avoid, but once you’ve made peace with it, it’s something that you no longer fear.
Now, it takes a long time to get over every episode for some reason. I don’t know how the men on patrol do it. But it takes a year or more for me every time. My friends overseas are tougher than I’ll ever be.
But it does give you a very different perspective on threats. Because when you aren’t afraid of dying, risk is just another experience to enjoy.
At least from my perspective, it feels like, if fear is a weapon, then:
“I’m not locked in here with you; You’re locked in here with me!”
🙂
Source date (UTC): 2013-09-10 13:56:00 UTC