(FB 1551969700 Timestamp) —“Rule by Judges? Sounds a lot more like Rule by Truth and the Rule of Law. Sure, in the beginning there will be more activity in the courts as people adjust to an honest society. However, once the adjustment to a more “clean” Commons is made. The Courts will calm down as the cost of lying will be far too high to pay.”—Stephen Thomas
Category: Law, Constitution, and Jurisprudence
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1552011509 Timestamp) WHAT DOES P-LAW SAY ABOUT TORTURE? Torture as punishment? Or torture to extract information? In the case of common criminals? For involuntary actors: soldiers, warriors, or spies? Or for voluntary actors: traitors, terrorists, enemy combatants? As a punishment no. Never. That is cruelty. As a means of extracting information, without maiming, yes. As a means of extracting with maiming, only for voluntary actors: traitors, enemy combatants, and terrorists, and not for involuntary actors (soldiers, warriors, and spies). Mercy is for the weak, for fools, and women. –“And cruelty, for the desperate, the cowardly, the short-lived, and the base.”—Tim Beckley-Spillane To second Tim, I ‘ll say that men who enjoy war are different from men who enjoy cruelty. And cruelty is never something we want among us.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1551981350 Timestamp) by Philip Clark Curt how would propertianism handle complex things in society like 1. Alcohol, Drugs 2. Pornography 3. Abortion 4. Death penalty Other controversial stuff that have some negative side effects to society thatâs legal to some degree in the US right now. I know this is diving deep into the weeds and thereâs way bigger problems to solve before hand. This would be an interesting video for John Mark to do a video. —Answer— I’ve answered all of these before but lets condense them here:
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a) Family and Commons (conservatism/capitalization) take priority over individual satisfaction (hedonism/consumption) – this is the inverse of ‘individualism’ and returns us to ‘familialism’ – intergenerational production instead of temporal consumption. - PORNOGRAPHY
There is no right to anything in public other than quietly walking down a public way or ‘necessary way’ (hedgerow) staring at your feet and keeping your mouths shut.
b) Alcohol and drugs are no one’s business unless externalized into the commons. c) Unfortunately they are frequently externalized into the commons. Therefore the question of alcohol and drugs are empirical (outputs) not blanket (inputs). And therefore a local community decision – not a universally decidable question. But that does not mean that we cannot define a point of demarcation. We can: d) Technically speaking you are no longer human (rational) when not in control, unable to perform due diligence, exposing others to hazard, and therefore have no rights in the commons, because you cannot engage in reciprocity. Therefore you lose your sovereignty because you no longer can demonstrate it. I really don’t know why you have the right to be drunk or stoned in public, and I know for certain you can’t claim the right to disconnect (heroin) or trip (hallucinate) in public. What you do on a boat, in the wilderness, or in your home, is up to you. Unfortunately this takes most of the joy out of recreational drugs. That said, if no one can tell, no one can tell. e) it is very hard to i) claim recreational use is a bad, ii) claim therapeutic use is a bad, iii) claim self medication in modernity is a bad, UNLESS iv) instead of self medication we provide both conditions non-hostile to mindfulness and provide mindfulness training (Stoicism etc) to the same degree that devotion does (continuous repetition and enforcement), and insurance (medical care, charity) to one another in case we fail and self medication is the only coince. (IMO, suicide should be an option, since all must have the right of exit.) f) The line of demarcation is crossed at (v) externalization of addiction. There can be no ‘right to addiction’. Empirically speaking, we should provide death sentences for addicts, or those engage in crime to finance addiction, or those who sell drugs to those who are addicts or engage in grim to finance addiction. (“The Duerte Rule”). We are currently running an experiment in Pornography. This experiment appears to a) suppress sexual frustration due to easy masturbation, b) dramatically reduce male sex drive and competitiveness (producing docility), c) produce sexual dysfunction in males, c) reduce sex crime, d) but feed extreme deviants (pedophiles, etc) – since novelty is part of the excitement that generates sexual stimulation we must run to extremes. There is no evidence that the human body (nudity) is a bad thing in public – probably just the opposite. There is evidence that infidelity may follow the degree of nudity in public (I can’t be sure of this). There is some evidence that limiting the range of pornography (which the industry does fairly well) might be of a benefit. There is some evidence that studio quality ‘romantic porn’ is not only not bad but instructive. There is plenty of evidence men are losing the skills (patience) taught to my generation during the 70’s. Ergo, if it’s not in public, and meets propertarian criteria, it is a matter of choice. It it externalizes into the public then it’s a violation. This is an empirical statement, and nothing else is decidable. I would recommend a park-like public since online access in private is universally available.
- ABORTION
Search my site for my works on abortion. Net is that it’s undecidable. And therefore a matter of local choice. DEATH PENALTY
The experiment with eliminating the death penalty has been a failure – a catastrophic one, and in our constitution I have corrected this to some degree and given license to restore even lynching.
So the only difficult question here is drugs. The rest are pretty simple.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1552153817 Timestamp) –“Curt: what if something happens to you?”– a) I am pretty sure once just LAW103 Foundations is done, and LAW203/6 and we have worked through the method, the definitions, and then the long list of applications of that law, we have a purely descriptive science of the psychological and social sciences. I am on the third revision of LAW103 – Foundations, and it is … well it’s where you can understand it pretty easily as a single thing in a hierarchy of applications. And that the number of component parts is just a handful that I could roll off right now with east. I will be done with 103 fairly shortly, and doing so has helped me shorten the book down to something very simple. Between the constitution (which is a chinese menu) , the Course LAW103/LAW203/6, and a book containing both, the work will be rock solid. And it is achievable. And while y’all complain about me taking so long (and I complain too) the time I take matters because it allows me to turn all of this prose into something parsimonious, clear, and accessible to most people by one means or another. b) The Institute owns everything I do other than my software biz which is owned by me and my investors. If anything happens to me all IP goes either to the institute, or to my investors, with a portion of any software profits for my family. c) In the case where something happens to me, the institute, a few people whose names I won’t mention, and the donors will have license to do what they will with the work after I’m gone. d) There are people here today capable of continuing the work. The problem is that I am able for various economic reasons to devote full time to the effort, and they are not. The best people have limited time to devote. My hope would be that the institute will evolve successfully into an online university for teaching this material, and a network of schools and teachers will evolve and will provide income to those people willing and able to continue the work whether contributing or simply persisting it. e) I need to be clear though that my age and health are not in my favor. Even this winter I’ve been questionably effective since maybe mid december because of health issues. But, if I can finish the courses, constitution, and book, and then spend the rest of my time using the same method to produce courses and books I will be productive as long as I am able, and reconstruct the western canon – a full academic program that is defended against the left forever. I have to get into a living condition where i can walk and lift every day but sleep enough every night so that I stay healthy enough to do it. And I’m not keen on abandoning care of my elders to do that. LAW103 – Foundations – The Method (âThe Coreâ) LAW106 Foundations: Man, Law, and Argument LAW206 Application and Reformation It is possible that if I continue making similar progress that law 106 will be just another 3 credits. I can’t easily estimate the work load without completing the course. People might be able to do the work faster than I assume. Law 206 (application to the scope of knowledge) should be a 300 level course i think, and Law 306 a 400 level course, since it involves writing constitutions for different groups of people. After that we then go to comparative legal systems and tear apart constitutions and legal systems on a country by country basis. Once that is donet here will be no legal scholars in the world that can compete with Propertarian Jurists with any excuse other than ‘it’s tradition’. Now that I feel REALLY secure about the Foundations, I feel like the workload for students will drop, because once you get the hang of it I think a lot of this will come more naturally than I expected. I would love to get this into a two year program, and then spend more time on economics, history and war to fill out a degree. But again. I have this work and my software work to do and I’m not 30 years old any longer.
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(FB 1552069378 Timestamp) COURSE UPDATE LAW103 – Foundations Almost there with t
(FB 1552069378 Timestamp) COURSE UPDATE LAW103 – Foundations Almost there with these videos 1. What is law (Disambiguation and statement of the problem) ~20m 2. The Methodology (the whole thing. The Big Picture. All of it.) ~15m 3. Serialization (how to) ~15m 4. Common Series (Definitions) ~30m
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1552062098 Timestamp) DEFINE: RULE OF LAW I â RULE OF LAW Among modern legal theorists, we will find that at least three common definitions of the rule of law. 1 â Rule of Law: a âSubstantiveâ (Skeptical) or âthickâ definition that must preserve certain rights; 2 â Rule by Law: a âFormalistâ: (Optimistic) or âthinâ definition, that must not preserve any such rights, and; 3 â Rule of Man: a âFunctionalâ (Fictional) or âultra-thinâ definition that requires neither formal process nor substantial rights be respected, and allows government officials great leeway. The ancient concept of rule OF law can be distinguished from rule BY law, in that, under the rule OF law, the law serves as a check against the abuse of power. Under rule BY law, the law is a mere tool for a government, that oppresses the population a using legislation as justification for arbitrary commands â a means of violating rights. Under Rule of Man, there are no checks on power to violate rights. Rule of Law (By Rights) 1- Substantive (Skeptical) conceptions of the rule of law go beyond this and include certain substantive rights that are said to be based on, or derived from, the rule of law. The substantive interpretation holds that the rule of law intrinsically must protect some or all individual rights. Rule By Law (Rule by Legislation) 2 â Formalist (Optimistic) definitions of the rule of law do not make a judgment about the âjustnessâ of law itself, but define specific procedural attributes that a legal framework must have in order to be in compliance with the rule of law. The formalist interpretation holds that the rule of law has purely formal characteristics, meaning that the law must be publicly declared, with prospective application, and possess the characteristics of generality, equality, and certainty, but there are no requirements with regard to the content of the law. In addition, some theorists hold that democracy(majority) can circumvent both procedure and rights, or construct new rights (rather than privileges). Why Formalism? Formalism allows laws the pretense of claiming rule of law when rights are not protected by including countries that do not necessarily have such laws protecting democracy or individual rights in the scope of the definition of ârule of lawâ. The âformalâ interpretation is more widespread than the âsubstantiveâ interpretation. Formalists hold that the law must be prospective, well-known, and have characteristics of generality, equality, and certainty. Other than that, the formal view contains no requirements as to the content of the law. Rule of Man (By Arbitrary Discretion) 3 â The functional (Fictional) interpretation of the term ârule of lawâ, consistent with the traditional English meaning, contrasts the ârule of lawâ with the ârule of man.â According to the functional view, a society in which government officers have a great deal of discretion has a low degree of ârule of lawâ, whereas a society in which government officers have little discretion has a high degree of ârule of lawâ. Closing (Summary) In other words, there is only one form of rule of law under which no one can override natural rights (life, liberty, property, reciprocity, truth, and duty). Rule by legislation allows either the state, or the body politic to override those rules. And rule by man allows arbitrary discretion on the part of officials (members of the monopoly bureaucracy).
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1552153817 Timestamp) –“Curt: what if something happens to you?”– a) I am pretty sure once just LAW103 Foundations is done, and LAW203/6 and we have worked through the method, the definitions, and then the long list of applications of that law, we have a purely descriptive science of the psychological and social sciences. I am on the third revision of LAW103 – Foundations, and it is … well it’s where you can understand it pretty easily as a single thing in a hierarchy of applications. And that the number of component parts is just a handful that I could roll off right now with east. I will be done with 103 fairly shortly, and doing so has helped me shorten the book down to something very simple. Between the constitution (which is a chinese menu) , the Course LAW103/LAW203/6, and a book containing both, the work will be rock solid. And it is achievable. And while y’all complain about me taking so long (and I complain too) the time I take matters because it allows me to turn all of this prose into something parsimonious, clear, and accessible to most people by one means or another. b) The Institute owns everything I do other than my software biz which is owned by me and my investors. If anything happens to me all IP goes either to the institute, or to my investors, with a portion of any software profits for my family. c) In the case where something happens to me, the institute, a few people whose names I won’t mention, and the donors will have license to do what they will with the work after I’m gone. d) There are people here today capable of continuing the work. The problem is that I am able for various economic reasons to devote full time to the effort, and they are not. The best people have limited time to devote. My hope would be that the institute will evolve successfully into an online university for teaching this material, and a network of schools and teachers will evolve and will provide income to those people willing and able to continue the work whether contributing or simply persisting it. e) I need to be clear though that my age and health are not in my favor. Even this winter I’ve been questionably effective since maybe mid december because of health issues. But, if I can finish the courses, constitution, and book, and then spend the rest of my time using the same method to produce courses and books I will be productive as long as I am able, and reconstruct the western canon – a full academic program that is defended against the left forever. I have to get into a living condition where i can walk and lift every day but sleep enough every night so that I stay healthy enough to do it. And I’m not keen on abandoning care of my elders to do that. LAW103 – Foundations – The Method (âThe Coreâ) LAW106 Foundations: Man, Law, and Argument LAW206 Application and Reformation It is possible that if I continue making similar progress that law 106 will be just another 3 credits. I can’t easily estimate the work load without completing the course. People might be able to do the work faster than I assume. Law 206 (application to the scope of knowledge) should be a 300 level course i think, and Law 306 a 400 level course, since it involves writing constitutions for different groups of people. After that we then go to comparative legal systems and tear apart constitutions and legal systems on a country by country basis. Once that is donet here will be no legal scholars in the world that can compete with Propertarian Jurists with any excuse other than ‘it’s tradition’. Now that I feel REALLY secure about the Foundations, I feel like the workload for students will drop, because once you get the hang of it I think a lot of this will come more naturally than I expected. I would love to get this into a two year program, and then spend more time on economics, history and war to fill out a degree. But again. I have this work and my software work to do and I’m not 30 years old any longer.
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(FB 1552069378 Timestamp) COURSE UPDATE LAW103 – Foundations Almost there with t
(FB 1552069378 Timestamp) COURSE UPDATE LAW103 – Foundations Almost there with these videos 1. What is law (Disambiguation and statement of the problem) ~20m 2. The Methodology (the whole thing. The Big Picture. All of it.) ~15m 3. Serialization (how to) ~15m 4. Common Series (Definitions) ~30m
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1552062098 Timestamp) DEFINE: RULE OF LAW I â RULE OF LAW Among modern legal theorists, we will find that at least three common definitions of the rule of law. 1 â Rule of Law: a âSubstantiveâ (Skeptical) or âthickâ definition that must preserve certain rights; 2 â Rule by Law: a âFormalistâ: (Optimistic) or âthinâ definition, that must not preserve any such rights, and; 3 â Rule of Man: a âFunctionalâ (Fictional) or âultra-thinâ definition that requires neither formal process nor substantial rights be respected, and allows government officials great leeway. The ancient concept of rule OF law can be distinguished from rule BY law, in that, under the rule OF law, the law serves as a check against the abuse of power. Under rule BY law, the law is a mere tool for a government, that oppresses the population a using legislation as justification for arbitrary commands â a means of violating rights. Under Rule of Man, there are no checks on power to violate rights. Rule of Law (By Rights) 1- Substantive (Skeptical) conceptions of the rule of law go beyond this and include certain substantive rights that are said to be based on, or derived from, the rule of law. The substantive interpretation holds that the rule of law intrinsically must protect some or all individual rights. Rule By Law (Rule by Legislation) 2 â Formalist (Optimistic) definitions of the rule of law do not make a judgment about the âjustnessâ of law itself, but define specific procedural attributes that a legal framework must have in order to be in compliance with the rule of law. The formalist interpretation holds that the rule of law has purely formal characteristics, meaning that the law must be publicly declared, with prospective application, and possess the characteristics of generality, equality, and certainty, but there are no requirements with regard to the content of the law. In addition, some theorists hold that democracy(majority) can circumvent both procedure and rights, or construct new rights (rather than privileges). Why Formalism? Formalism allows laws the pretense of claiming rule of law when rights are not protected by including countries that do not necessarily have such laws protecting democracy or individual rights in the scope of the definition of ârule of lawâ. The âformalâ interpretation is more widespread than the âsubstantiveâ interpretation. Formalists hold that the law must be prospective, well-known, and have characteristics of generality, equality, and certainty. Other than that, the formal view contains no requirements as to the content of the law. Rule of Man (By Arbitrary Discretion) 3 â The functional (Fictional) interpretation of the term ârule of lawâ, consistent with the traditional English meaning, contrasts the ârule of lawâ with the ârule of man.â According to the functional view, a society in which government officers have a great deal of discretion has a low degree of ârule of lawâ, whereas a society in which government officers have little discretion has a high degree of ârule of lawâ. Closing (Summary) In other words, there is only one form of rule of law under which no one can override natural rights (life, liberty, property, reciprocity, truth, and duty). Rule by legislation allows either the state, or the body politic to override those rules. And rule by man allows arbitrary discretion on the part of officials (members of the monopoly bureaucracy).
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1552406197 Timestamp) The possible: Engineering The good: Philosophy The true: Law