Curt Doolittle

Category: Natural Law and Reciprocity

  • YOU WILL EVENTUALLY DISAGREE WITH ME I will inevitably make you disagree with me

    YOU WILL EVENTUALLY DISAGREE WITH ME

    I will inevitably make you disagree with me for the simple reason that nearly all of us are invested in some excuse or other that violates natural law.

    You will not take my advice and accept that the problem is the man in the mirror, but instead, you will blame me or my work or my reasoning, or my incentives, just like you blame others for the status quo, rather than the man in the mirror.

    It is extremely difficult to possess sufficient agency such that we ritualize intellectual honesty. While almost all of us are capable of it, few of us train for it, and fewer of us develop it in the course of life, and even fewer of us are born with the disposition.

    Truth knows no exception.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-21 12:03:00 UTC

  • Returns on cooperation regardless of ability still are higher than non-cooperati

    Returns on cooperation regardless of ability still are higher than non-cooperation UNLESS offset by parasitism and predation.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-20 23:42:21 UTC

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  • The False Dichotomy of Socialism vs Capitalism

    What kind of government? Rule of Law, or Rule by Discretion? It’s an easy question. Natural Law Capitalism (markets in everything, limited by externality) must emerge under rule of law since no other option is available. The only externality is black markets (crime) to profit by imposition of costs by externalities. All other forms of circumventing rule of law by rule of discretion will simply breed special interests, monopolies, rents, and corruption – as well as black markets One of the great intellectual scams of the 19th and 20th centuries is to sell the replacement of rule of law, with arbitrary rule – by selling capitalism (unlimited free trade capitalism that tolerates externalities), versus socialism (discretionary rule socialism that manufactures externalities in volume). There is no alternative to a mixed economy. The alternative is between rule of law mixed economy (dividends to shareholder-citizens), and arbitrary rule mixed economy (dividends to the political class and their enablers).

  • The False Dichotomy of Socialism vs Capitalism

    What kind of government? Rule of Law, or Rule by Discretion? It’s an easy question. Natural Law Capitalism (markets in everything, limited by externality) must emerge under rule of law since no other option is available. The only externality is black markets (crime) to profit by imposition of costs by externalities. All other forms of circumventing rule of law by rule of discretion will simply breed special interests, monopolies, rents, and corruption – as well as black markets One of the great intellectual scams of the 19th and 20th centuries is to sell the replacement of rule of law, with arbitrary rule – by selling capitalism (unlimited free trade capitalism that tolerates externalities), versus socialism (discretionary rule socialism that manufactures externalities in volume). There is no alternative to a mixed economy. The alternative is between rule of law mixed economy (dividends to shareholder-citizens), and arbitrary rule mixed economy (dividends to the political class and their enablers).

  • More Natural Law

    —“When we hear the sophists claim that law is a social construct, they should be saying that legislation is a social construct?”— Steven Jackson  Yes. Natural Law (Reciprocity). Law (judicial findings of irreciprocity), Legislation( Commands of Representatives given force of law), Regulation ( Commands of Bureaucracy), Discretion (Commands of Individuals). —“Natural law is not a construct but a reality that adapts to social conditions?”— Steven Jackson Natural law was ‘discovered’ as the universal method of decidability independent of individual and group differences in judgements, and from which there is no incentive for retaliation. Natural law (reciprocity) is the only condition under which both (a) cooperation is the necessary means of survival, reproduction, and flourishing, and (b) individuals cannot prey upon one another, and (c) it is in the self interest of the strong (and sovereign) to adhere to instead of predation, parasitism, and coercion.

  • More Natural Law

    —“When we hear the sophists claim that law is a social construct, they should be saying that legislation is a social construct?”— Steven Jackson  Yes. Natural Law (Reciprocity). Law (judicial findings of irreciprocity), Legislation( Commands of Representatives given force of law), Regulation ( Commands of Bureaucracy), Discretion (Commands of Individuals). —“Natural law is not a construct but a reality that adapts to social conditions?”— Steven Jackson Natural law was ‘discovered’ as the universal method of decidability independent of individual and group differences in judgements, and from which there is no incentive for retaliation. Natural law (reciprocity) is the only condition under which both (a) cooperation is the necessary means of survival, reproduction, and flourishing, and (b) individuals cannot prey upon one another, and (c) it is in the self interest of the strong (and sovereign) to adhere to instead of predation, parasitism, and coercion.

  • UM. NO. IT’S FOR THE STRONG. Let me help you. The reason for natural law of reci

    UM. NO. IT’S FOR THE STRONG.

    Let me help you. The reason for natural law of reciprocity is that it is the only reason under which the strong and able have a greater interest in cooperation than predation.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-20 20:07:06 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1020399723092594688

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. UM. NO. IT’S FOR THE STRONG. Let me help you.

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    UM. NO. IT’S FOR THE STRONG.

    Let me help you. The reason for natural law of reciprocity is that it is the only reason under which the strong and able have a greater interest in cooperation than predation.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-20 20:06:49 UTC

  • UM. NO. IT’S FOR THE STRONG. Let me help you. The reason for natural law of reci

    UM. NO. IT’S FOR THE STRONG.

    Let me help you. The reason for natural law of reciprocity is that it is the only reason under which the strong and able have a greater interest in cooperation than predation.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-20 16:06:00 UTC

  • NATURAL LAW VS SOCIAL CONSTRUCT John Mark “Xyz is a social construct” carries no

    NATURAL LAW VS SOCIAL CONSTRUCT

    John Mark

    “Xyz is a social construct” carries no testable content. What they mean to say is “Human groups don’t actually need xyz to be successful. People have told us we need xyz but we would be better off without it.”

    Insert “legislation” or “rule of law based on natural law of reciprocity” for “xyz” and we have a testable statement.

    As far as I know, rule of law based on natural law of reciprocity with full accounting (of all forms of property) can and would adapt to social conditions – meaning that regardless of what actions people are taking in a polity, such a system of law would provide legal recourse and restitution for individuals or groups who experienced others violating reciprocity in dealings with them.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-20 16:05:00 UTC