Curt Doolittle

Category: Law, Constitution, and Jurisprudence

  • You Have Complete Control Of The Federal Republic Of Nigeria For 20 Years. What Would You Do To Better The Country Across All Sectors (e.g. Education, Economy, Military, National Unity)?

    I’ve looked into this, and the answer is the same for any developing country: if you can produce a judiciary, police force, and military that will enforce property rights, moral (reciprocal) contracts, and where bureaucrats are open to suit by anyone for corruption, then eventually you will prosper.

    Nigeria and Ghana at the very least have nothing but time holding them from becoming an advanced society. There are, in both countries, upper middle class (professionals), and those people are the ones who matter.

    https://www.quora.com/You-have-complete-control-of-the-Federal-Republic-of-Nigeria-for-20-years-What-would-you-do-to-better-the-country-across-all-sectors-e-g-education-economy-military-national-unity

  • Is There Any Country In The Industrialized World That Has More Students (per Capita) Whose Parents Have Been In The Criminal Justice System As Does The Us?

    Dishonest (Postmodern) question in my opinion.

    The USA prosecutes many more minor offenses than does any other nation which accounts for our ability to leave our doors unlocked, and not fence in our yards, or put bars or grids over our windows as does the rest of the world. The only places where we must act like the rest of the world is in our immigrant cities.

    We have far less ‘petty crime’ than other nations (except japan for example). We have far less ‘observable’ corruption. We have a huge drug issue and many people in the system for it.

    And we have (I will get the usual Quora punishment for truth speaking for saying this) but heterogeneous societies degrade trust, degrade norms, and increase crime. For the simple reason that homogenous and wealthy peoples are marginally indifferent and redistributive and heterogeneous and poor peoples are marginally different and resist redistribution (in either direction).

    If you compare ethnic groups they have the same crime rates in america as they do in their home countries. The reasons for this are finally fairly well understood (see Emmanuel Todd’s work on europe for example, or the recent books on the wealth of nations being dependent upon the size of the underclasses, or even Trust by Fukuyama. )

    These are just painful truths that are counter to both secular and supernatural religions, as well as marxist postmodernist pseudoscience of the 19th and 20th centuries.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-there-any-country-in-the-industrialized-world-that-has-more-students-per-capita-whose-parents-have-been-in-the-criminal-justice-system-as-does-the-US

  • Why Is Crime Rate So High In The United States?

    its not. its that we prosecute minor crimes aggressively.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-is-crime-rate-so-high-in-the-United-States

  • How Can I Demonstrate That The Us Is Not Founded On Christian Morality And Ethics?

    It’s on natural law. The constitution was an attempt at natural law. Period.

    https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-demonstrate-that-the-US-is-not-founded-on-Christian-morality-and-ethics

  • How Often Does It Happen That Someone Who Testifies In Court Who Perjures Himself Is Convicted And Sentenced?

    Perjury is very common, especially in family court, less so in criminal court, and less so as we move to less and less serious crimes. However, the law distinguishes between false testimony, obstruction and perjury. And in general, these matters are resolved in the court room, because such things are fairly obvious to all concerned. The reason being that incentives are fairly obvious things. And people tend to judge on incentives not testimony.

    For example, of the tens of thousands of cases each year, it is pretty uncommon (I don’t have any data right now to refer to) for it to go farther than low double digits.

    https://www.quora.com/How-often-does-it-happen-that-someone-who-testifies-in-court-who-perjures-himself-is-convicted-and-sentenced

  • Why Is Crime Rate So High In The United States?

    its not. its that we prosecute minor crimes aggressively.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-is-crime-rate-so-high-in-the-United-States

  • How Can I Demonstrate That The Us Is Not Founded On Christian Morality And Ethics?

    It’s on natural law. The constitution was an attempt at natural law. Period.

    https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-demonstrate-that-the-US-is-not-founded-on-Christian-morality-and-ethics

  • How Often Does It Happen That Someone Who Testifies In Court Who Perjures Himself Is Convicted And Sentenced?

    Perjury is very common, especially in family court, less so in criminal court, and less so as we move to less and less serious crimes. However, the law distinguishes between false testimony, obstruction and perjury. And in general, these matters are resolved in the court room, because such things are fairly obvious to all concerned. The reason being that incentives are fairly obvious things. And people tend to judge on incentives not testimony.

    For example, of the tens of thousands of cases each year, it is pretty uncommon (I don’t have any data right now to refer to) for it to go farther than low double digits.

    https://www.quora.com/How-often-does-it-happen-that-someone-who-testifies-in-court-who-perjures-himself-is-convicted-and-sentenced

  • There is no value to a continental State other than the efficiency of military d

    There is no value to a continental State other than the efficiency of military defense, an insurer of last resort, and the juridical resolution of conflict between regions and states. Regions diverge culturally. The USG has outlived its usefulness. #Trump #RevolutionComes

    Source date (UTC): 2017-12-12 19:32:02 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/940665568784510982

  • Return To Rule By Rule Of Law, Markets In Everything, And The Continuous Evolution Of The Animal Man.

    We are the masters of the first asset: violence. Violence like any asset can be put to good, or to ill. We can return to the continuous domestication and husbandry of humans, animals, machines, and this earth – if not the universe. And in doing so evolve ourselves and man into gods. Or we can be victims of those who lack that ability.