Curt Doolittle

Category: Natural Law and Reciprocity

  • Propertarianism is the best case for individualism

    Mar 27, 2020, 11:36 AM

    —“Propertarianism is the best case for individualism as it establishes the costs. Sovereignty requires agency requires the aptitude to incur and manage the costs.”—Rick Tavi

    (CD: Well done. I set out to restore ability, responsibility, un-substitutability, and cost to search for Freedom and Liberty by permission at other’s discretion – resulting in creation of Sovereignty in fact by our decision. I did so because when working on Hoppe I understood argumentation ethics were nonsense. Violence, like boycott, is never, ever, ever off the political table.)

  • Propertarianism is the best case for individualism

    Mar 27, 2020, 11:36 AM

    —“Propertarianism is the best case for individualism as it establishes the costs. Sovereignty requires agency requires the aptitude to incur and manage the costs.”—Rick Tavi

    (CD: Well done. I set out to restore ability, responsibility, un-substitutability, and cost to search for Freedom and Liberty by permission at other’s discretion – resulting in creation of Sovereignty in fact by our decision. I did so because when working on Hoppe I understood argumentation ethics were nonsense. Violence, like boycott, is never, ever, ever off the political table.)

  • No, Morality Isn’t Subjective per Se – Just Minor Variation in It Is.

    Mar 29, 2020, 11:44 AM

    —“…JFG claimed that morality is subjective entirely…”—

    Well, I corrected him. Personal moral bias is subjective. We compete with others in a market of moral biases. We converge to reciprocity within our local geographic, demographic, familial, social, economic, and political organizations, and we absolutely converge on reciprocity in international affairs where there is no means of enforcement other than boycott, trade war, or war. Personal Moral Bias > Local Market Moral Bias > World Market Moral bias. We rarely if ever find people who do not engage in reciprocity within the limits of proportionality who are not outcast or imprisoned or worse. So it’s false that we do not practice reciprocity. We just limit the scope of reciprocity that we take to market to avoid others, cooperate with others, or prey upon others. But the differences in our scopes of reciprocity narrow as we approach the global Because the utility of of our choice declines with scale. Sociopaths often practice reciprocity just fine. Because it’s useful. Empathics practice reciprocity just fine, because they intuit it. the difference is that the first is by experience and reason, the second is by biological intuition. A cooperative species – meaning one that can select whether to cooperate or not – cannot survive without moral intuition.

  • No, Morality Isn’t Subjective per Se – Just Minor Variation in It Is.

    Mar 29, 2020, 11:44 AM

    —“…JFG claimed that morality is subjective entirely…”—

    Well, I corrected him. Personal moral bias is subjective. We compete with others in a market of moral biases. We converge to reciprocity within our local geographic, demographic, familial, social, economic, and political organizations, and we absolutely converge on reciprocity in international affairs where there is no means of enforcement other than boycott, trade war, or war. Personal Moral Bias > Local Market Moral Bias > World Market Moral bias. We rarely if ever find people who do not engage in reciprocity within the limits of proportionality who are not outcast or imprisoned or worse. So it’s false that we do not practice reciprocity. We just limit the scope of reciprocity that we take to market to avoid others, cooperate with others, or prey upon others. But the differences in our scopes of reciprocity narrow as we approach the global Because the utility of of our choice declines with scale. Sociopaths often practice reciprocity just fine. Because it’s useful. Empathics practice reciprocity just fine, because they intuit it. the difference is that the first is by experience and reason, the second is by biological intuition. A cooperative species – meaning one that can select whether to cooperate or not – cannot survive without moral intuition.

  • Another Common Property

    Mar 31, 2020, 3:47 PM

    —“Axioms”, like “First principles”, are a common property. You can not define them without the concept “we”. It is a contradiction to build an ideology that denies commons on a foundation of commons. This foundation is what libertarianism scavenges from ideologies that invest in and defend those properties.”—by Luke Weinhagen

  • Another Common Property

    Mar 31, 2020, 3:47 PM

    —“Axioms”, like “First principles”, are a common property. You can not define them without the concept “we”. It is a contradiction to build an ideology that denies commons on a foundation of commons. This foundation is what libertarianism scavenges from ideologies that invest in and defend those properties.”—by Luke Weinhagen

  • Wishing so doesn’t make it so. 😉 Rights are the product of an exchange. You hav

    Wishing so doesn’t make it so. 😉
    Rights are the product of an exchange.
    You have nothing to exchange.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-23 20:26:55 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1264291744558075909

    Reply addressees: @TheRealFMCH @hugo909 @Maroeladalx10DB @laurenboebert @austere1717

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1264290026722131971

  • Righteousness is a moral claim. I simply specialize in reciprocity, and in parti

    Righteousness is a moral claim. I simply specialize in reciprocity, and in particular verbal reciprocity that we call testimony: satisfaction of demand for infallibility given the question at hand, given means, motive, and opportunity.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-23 12:24:12 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1264170263320633344

    Reply addressees: @hugo909 @TheRealFMCH @Maroeladalx10DB @laurenboebert @austere1717

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1264165863801978880

  • RECIPROCITY (FULL VERSION)

    The natural law is (+)Sovereignty and (-)Reciprocity, in display word and deed, including reciprocity in speech (truthful speech) regardless of cost to the status(dominance, competence hierarch), within the limits of proportionality (in group defection) within the limits of the utility of cooperation (out groups). “Within the limits of the utility of cooperation.” There is no ideal. There are no ideals. There is only what satisfies demand for infallibility. FULL VERSION Limiting our display word and deed to: – Fully informed (truthful and complete); – Regardless of cost to the status, competence, or dominance hierarchy. – Productive and; – Voluntary transfer (or exchange, or imposition of costs upon); – The Demonstrated interests of Others; – Either directly or indirectly (by externality) – Within the limit of incentive for in-group defection; – Within The Limit of the Utility of future out-group Cooperation; – And liable and warrantied, within the limits of restitutability; – Eliminating the incentive of retaliation and retaliation cycles, – And imposition of costs upon the commons of trust by which others cooperate.

  • RECIPROCITY (FULL VERSION)

    The natural law is (+)Sovereignty and (-)Reciprocity, in display word and deed, including reciprocity in speech (truthful speech) regardless of cost to the status(dominance, competence hierarch), within the limits of proportionality (in group defection) within the limits of the utility of cooperation (out groups). “Within the limits of the utility of cooperation.” There is no ideal. There are no ideals. There is only what satisfies demand for infallibility. FULL VERSION Limiting our display word and deed to: – Fully informed (truthful and complete); – Regardless of cost to the status, competence, or dominance hierarchy. – Productive and; – Voluntary transfer (or exchange, or imposition of costs upon); – The Demonstrated interests of Others; – Either directly or indirectly (by externality) – Within the limit of incentive for in-group defection; – Within The Limit of the Utility of future out-group Cooperation; – And liable and warrantied, within the limits of restitutability; – Eliminating the incentive of retaliation and retaliation cycles, – And imposition of costs upon the commons of trust by which others cooperate.