Curt Doolittle

Category: Natural Law and Reciprocity

  • Curt Doolittle’s answer: All human rights are just property rights. That is all

    Curt Doolittle’s answer: All human rights are just property rights. That is all that they can be. Why we should not force property rights upon people is very hard to imagine. Of course, the communists would say that their last few articles that were forced into the international declaration in o…

  • What Would You Consider As Basic Human Rights That Should Be Enforced On Everyone Without Exception?

    All human rights are just property rights. That is all that they can be. Why we should not force property rights upon people is very hard to imagine.

    Of course, the communists would say that their last few articles that were forced into the international declaration in order to get their signatures were also property rights , bt they cannot be, since they are demands for imposition on the property others, not demands that we forgo impositions upon the property of others.

    I’ve written extensively about this subject and there can exist no positive moral laws. All moral laws are prohibitions and prohibitions only. That is all it is possible for universal laws to be.

    https://www.quora.com/What-would-you-consider-as-basic-human-rights-that-should-be-enforced-on-everyone-without-exception

  • What Would You Consider As Basic Human Rights That Should Be Enforced On Everyone Without Exception?

    All human rights are just property rights. That is all that they can be. Why we should not force property rights upon people is very hard to imagine.

    Of course, the communists would say that their last few articles that were forced into the international declaration in order to get their signatures were also property rights , bt they cannot be, since they are demands for imposition on the property others, not demands that we forgo impositions upon the property of others.

    I’ve written extensively about this subject and there can exist no positive moral laws. All moral laws are prohibitions and prohibitions only. That is all it is possible for universal laws to be.

    https://www.quora.com/What-would-you-consider-as-basic-human-rights-that-should-be-enforced-on-everyone-without-exception

  • Ethics (direct) and Morality (indirect) consists of nothing more than reciprocit

    Ethics (direct) and Morality (indirect) consists of nothing more than reciprocity. ( Productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfer independent of imposition of costs upon the investments of others by externality. ie:the continuous incremental expansion of tort).

    And unethical and immoral action violates reciprocity (the same rule).

    Or put more traditionally, the Silver Rule correctly defines ethics and morality. However, since the optimum game strategy is exhaustive investment (not boundless, but exhaustive) in opportunity for cooperation (thats the science), then the Golden Rule (which is secondary to the silver rule) increases the overall condition (productivity of cooperation).

    As we innovate in both moral and immoral actions, we increase the suppression of immoral actions through the empirical discovery of them in conflicts (tort).

    Unfortunately, law like norms, tends to lag, and lags more the more governments …. interfere…. with tort law (empirical) discovery and suppression of criminal, unethical, and immoral actions.

    And worse, while norms usually make their way into legislation or command, (not necessarily tort), the effect of norms is increased by homogeneity and decreased by heterogeneity.

    Moreover, group evolutionary strategy (moral and immoral both) sometimes requires or advances both ethical/moral, and unethical/immoral behavior, which results in norms that institutionalize unethical and immoral behavior. (Gypsies for example).

    Anyway. Ethics and morality were an empirical not philosophical discovery. FIctionalisms to choose to invest in different strategies by which we create opportunities were the discovery.

    Or said more simply: the primary challenge has been the christian one: the extensino of kinship love to non-kin (or at least near kin), but by personal rather than political means.

    The principle issue with ethics and morality is that in the age of fiat currency we have substituted state insurance for interpersonal extensions, and in doing so eliminated the ability to test for exhaustion vs rent seeking. And the consequences are pretty obvious to the student of history.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-02-13 22:47:00 UTC

  • Ethics (direct) and Morality (indirect) consists of nothing more than reciprocit

    Ethics (direct) and Morality (indirect) consists of nothing more than reciprocity. ( Productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfer independent of imposition of costs upon the investments of others by externality. ie:the continuous incremental expansion of tort). And unethical and immoral action violates reciprocity (the same rule). Or put more traditionally, the Silver Rule correctly defines ethics and morality. However, since the optimum game strategy is exhaustive investment (not boundless, but exhaustive) in opportunity for cooperation (thats the science), then the Golden Rule (which is secondary to the silver rule) increases the overall condition (productivity of cooperation). As we innovate in both moral and immoral actions, we increase the suppression of immoral actions through the empirical discovery of them in conflicts (tort). Unfortunately, law like norms, tends to lag, and lags more the more governments …. interfere…. with tort law (empirical) discovery and suppression of criminal, unethical, and immoral actions. And worse, while norms usually make their way into legislation or command, (not necessarily tort), the effect of norms is increased by homogeneity and decreased by heterogeneity. Moreover, group evolutionary strategy (moral and immoral both) sometimes requires or advances both ethical/moral, and unethical/immoral behavior, which results in norms that institutionalize unethical and immoral behavior. (Gypsies for example). Anyway. Ethics and morality were an empirical not philosophical discovery. FIctionalisms to choose to invest in different strategies by which we create opportunities were the discovery. Or said more simply: the primary challenge has been the christian one: the extensino of kinship love to non-kin (or at least near kin), but by personal rather than political means. The principle issue with ethics and morality is that in the age of fiat currency we have substituted state insurance for interpersonal extensions, and in doing so eliminated the ability to test for exhaustion vs rent seeking. And the consequences are pretty obvious to the student of history.

  • Ethics (direct) and Morality (indirect) consists of nothing more than reciprocit

    Ethics (direct) and Morality (indirect) consists of nothing more than reciprocity. ( Productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfer independent of imposition of costs upon the investments of others by externality. ie:the continuous incremental expansion of tort). And unethical and immoral action violates reciprocity (the same rule). Or put more traditionally, the Silver Rule correctly defines ethics and morality. However, since the optimum game strategy is exhaustive investment (not boundless, but exhaustive) in opportunity for cooperation (thats the science), then the Golden Rule (which is secondary to the silver rule) increases the overall condition (productivity of cooperation). As we innovate in both moral and immoral actions, we increase the suppression of immoral actions through the empirical discovery of them in conflicts (tort). Unfortunately, law like norms, tends to lag, and lags more the more governments …. interfere…. with tort law (empirical) discovery and suppression of criminal, unethical, and immoral actions. And worse, while norms usually make their way into legislation or command, (not necessarily tort), the effect of norms is increased by homogeneity and decreased by heterogeneity. Moreover, group evolutionary strategy (moral and immoral both) sometimes requires or advances both ethical/moral, and unethical/immoral behavior, which results in norms that institutionalize unethical and immoral behavior. (Gypsies for example). Anyway. Ethics and morality were an empirical not philosophical discovery. FIctionalisms to choose to invest in different strategies by which we create opportunities were the discovery. Or said more simply: the primary challenge has been the christian one: the extensino of kinship love to non-kin (or at least near kin), but by personal rather than political means. The principle issue with ethics and morality is that in the age of fiat currency we have substituted state insurance for interpersonal extensions, and in doing so eliminated the ability to test for exhaustion vs rent seeking. And the consequences are pretty obvious to the student of history.

  • Evolution preserves cheaters to keep moral people honest. Unfortunately we inven

    Evolution preserves cheaters to keep moral people honest. Unfortunately we invented fiction, abrahamism, rationalism, pseudoscience, denial, and deceit, just as fast as we developed productive cooperation.

    We aren’t less thieving as our ancestors, we just do it at increasing arm’s length.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-02-13 21:11:00 UTC

  • Evolution preserves cheaters to keep moral people honest. Unfortunately we inven

    Evolution preserves cheaters to keep moral people honest. Unfortunately we invented fiction, abrahamism, rationalism, pseudoscience, denial, and deceit, just as fast as we developed productive cooperation. We aren’t less thieving as our ancestors, we just do it at increasing arm’s length.

  • Evolution preserves cheaters to keep moral people honest. Unfortunately we inven

    Evolution preserves cheaters to keep moral people honest. Unfortunately we invented fiction, abrahamism, rationalism, pseudoscience, denial, and deceit, just as fast as we developed productive cooperation. We aren’t less thieving as our ancestors, we just do it at increasing arm’s length.

  • Reciprocity. I have just as much right to be crazy as anyone else. lol. 😉

    Reciprocity. I have just as much right to be crazy as anyone else.

    lol. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2018-02-12 20:03:00 UTC