Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

by Joel Davis

( NOTE: Joel Davis: I’ve done some light editing below, and used CD: to add my thoughts. This is a very good piece with a full cycle argument. And you only ‘slide backward’ into godmode speech rather than operational language a few times -I’ve left them for you to edit. If you do, and repost as a comment, I’ll update this. ok? 🙂 )

—“Fundamentally, force functions as the means of decidability in all property disputes.

However, by the forcible establishment of sovereignty, the sovereign may enforce whichever specific definition of property it decides (within the limits of existential possibility and practical capability).

[(CD: platonism. state actors an actions:)Sovereign power manifests] property in society using force, and Propertarianism acknowledges this and seeks to argue in favour of a particular conception of property for the purposes of satisfying mutual strategic self-interest that produces to persistence: genetic survival: “Biological Transcendence”.

Genetic Survival (Biological Transcendence) [(CD: godmode language:) has been identified] as the fundamental purpose for life from the analysis of evolutionary biological, psychological and neuroscientific observations.

These observations demonstrate that by successful genetic reproduction we exist in the form that we exist, including our fundamental psychological motivations.

By examining our fundamental psychological motivations as a function of the operation of genetic survival, we may establish genetic survival as the most probable psychologically and existentially satisfying intended consequence for our actions. (CD: and furthremore, one would have to explain why anyone’s choice was not in pursuit of that end – because that exposes deceptions and frauds.)

We observe humans (like all animals) to pursue genetic survival by three fundamental categories of strategy:

– Predation

– Parasitism

– Cooperation

(CD: – Avoidance )

These three(CD: four) categories correlate with the three fundamental catagories of social power we observe:

– Violence

– Appeal to Conscience

– Capacity for Exchange

– Boycott

Predators use violence to gain social power to gain access to resources and reproduction to gain increased probability of genetic survival.

Parasites use appeals to conscience (internalized morality) to gain social power to gain access to resources and reproduction to gain increased probability of genetic survival.

Cooperators exchange their beneficial capacity for the production of consumable resources and reproduction itself to gain social power to gain access to resources and reproduction to gain increased probability of genetic survival.

(CD: Avoidance … )

We have identified the strategy of cooperation’s higher capacity to serve our interests for long-term genetic survival as it provides extremely higher incentives to contribute to society.

Through the establishment of a cooperative society, we incentivize the production of necessary resources for survival and protections for our inherent vulnerablities, and we empower individual humans to exchange their productive capacity for access to these protections and resources.

In light of this, we seek to increase the individual’s incentive to serve his/her genetic survival interests by exchange and disincentivize violence or parasitism.

In order to defeat all predators and parasites and enforce cooperation by exchange we must establish sovereign force which defends [(CD: no, all property that encourages retaliation by a return to parasitism and predation)physical] property (to protect the incentive to labour/invest/produce and exchange) and abstract property (by punishing false testimony to protect the listeners from having their conscience manipulated to enable parasitism – All parasitism by definition directly contradicts the self-interest of the host.

Therefore, all justifications for parasitism require an appeal to elevate some abstract ideal as more fundamentally important than self-interest, yet we observe the emergence of our fundamental psychological motivations [CD: from which our self-interest emerges] from the operation of genetic survival. Therefore, the fact these abstract moral imperatives serve the genetic survival interests of parasites demonstrates the deception of all justifications for parasitism.)

For Propertarianism to succeed in maximizing our probability for genetic survival, the sovereign must punish predatory violence and parasitic lying so to engage in either behaviour would reduce your probability of genetic survival more than engaging in such behaviour could increase it, thus incentivizing Cooperation.

Propertarian Sovereign Power achieves this through violence, but it defines property as means to it’s cooperative genetic survival strategy.

To enforce property creates it, why you enforce property defines it.

I would add that whilst Predation functions by Violence, all Violence need not function as Predation. And whilst all Social Parasitism functions by Appeals to Conscience, not all Appeals to Conscience must function as Parasitism.

Via Propertarianism, all three categories of social power may function as means to Cooperation.”—