Category: Natural Law and Reciprocity

http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/07/27/property-rights-and-obligations/DEFINITION: PROPERTY-IN-TOTO

(worth repeating)

in-toto: all. “in totality”. (latin).

I use property-in/en-toto as a synonym for Demonstrated Property.

Demonstrated Property being that which people act to secure, defend, retaliate against the imposition of costs upon.

Humans act to defend that which they bear costs to obtain.

1) Property-in/en-toto: all that humans act to defend.

2) Property (Norm): that which human groups evolve to insure one another against the impositions of costs upon.

3) Property Rights: that which we develop institutions to insure one another against the imposition of costs upon. Restitution in error or accident against private property. Restitution or punishment for intentional imposition of costs against private property. Punishment or fines for imposition of costs against common property. The most common of which is the export of risk upon others (drunk driving).

So property-in-toto refers to the scientific (empirical) definition of property as determined by the evidence of human behavior.

Why is this necessary? Well, the problem is that the rothbardians (Libertarians) have been espousing a definition of property called ‘intersubjectively-verifiable-property” meaning “physical things”. In other words, that the basis for law, the basis for a social order, “SHOULD BE” limited to physical things.

I’ve written quite a bit about intersubjectively verifiable property producing low trust societies with high demand for the authoritarian state. Whereas high trust societies do not generate demand for the authoritarian state – but they tolerate if not advocate mutual insurance (redistribution).

High trust societies do not rely upon a test of intersubjective verifiability, but upon RETALIATION. In other words, law evolved to ‘keep the peace” because keeping the peace (honestly) kept taxes flowing from the greater economic velocity. In other words, the nobility obtained taxes in exchange for creating order. (Which they then turned into rent seeking). But the side effect is that law that prohibits that which causes retaliation leaves voluntary cooperation as the only possible method of survival. Where voluntary cooperation means ‘production and trade’.

Note: in legal terminology it would be ‘in-toto”. When I started using the term i used the french “en” instead of english “in”. to cue the reader that it’s a new term. That was probably a mistake, since it’s descriptive as it is.

WHAT DO PEOPLE DEMONSTRATE AS THEIR PROPERTY:

http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/07/27/property-rights-and-obligations/

HOW DO WE INCREMENTALLY SUPPRESS IMPOSITION OF COSTS UPON OTHERS?

https://www.facebook.com/TRSCDIncremental/posts/852912708120103