Category: Natural Law and Reciprocity

  • Existence: Natural Numbers, Natural Morality, Natural Law

    (important concept) [A]ll conflicts are commensurable and decidable, therefore objective morality objectively exists. The counter proposition is that conflcits are not logically decidable by any means. When one says objective (necessary and natural) morality doesn’t exist, what one means instead, is that despite the existence of objective decidability, therefore objective morality, that no group in fact practices objective, necessary, natural, morality, and instead practices a portfolio of norms that they cast as moral, just as we cast natural (natural, necessary) law, legislation, and regulation as law when in fact only natural, necessary law is objectively extant law. The rest is the work of man. Natural numbers, natural morality, and natural laws exist out of necessity. All else is the arbitrary work of man for his local convenience.

    —“If practicing “natural morality” will kill a man, or even merely diminish him in wealth, status, or some other measure, then it is just as natural that he will not practice it. This is the origin of conflict.”—Eli Harman

  • Existence: Natural Numbers, Natural Morality, Natural Law

    (important concept) [A]ll conflicts are commensurable and decidable, therefore objective morality objectively exists. The counter proposition is that conflcits are not logically decidable by any means. When one says objective (necessary and natural) morality doesn’t exist, what one means instead, is that despite the existence of objective decidability, therefore objective morality, that no group in fact practices objective, necessary, natural, morality, and instead practices a portfolio of norms that they cast as moral, just as we cast natural (natural, necessary) law, legislation, and regulation as law when in fact only natural, necessary law is objectively extant law. The rest is the work of man. Natural numbers, natural morality, and natural laws exist out of necessity. All else is the arbitrary work of man for his local convenience.

    —“If practicing “natural morality” will kill a man, or even merely diminish him in wealth, status, or some other measure, then it is just as natural that he will not practice it. This is the origin of conflict.”—Eli Harman

  • SHORT COURSE IN PROPERTARIAN MORALITY

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2015/07/27/a-short-course-in-propertarian-morality-2/A SHORT COURSE IN PROPERTARIAN MORALITY


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-02 05:35:00 UTC

  • EXISTENCE: NATURAL NUMBERS, NATURAL MORALITY, NATURAL LAW (important concept) Al

    EXISTENCE: NATURAL NUMBERS, NATURAL MORALITY, NATURAL LAW

    (important concept)

    All conflicts are commensurable and decidable, therefore objective morality objectively exists. The counter proposition is that conflcits are not logically decidable by any means. When one says objective (necessary and natural) morality doesn’t exist, what one means instead, is that despite the existence objective decidability, therefore objective morality, that no group in fact practices objective, necessary, natural, morality, and instead practices a portfolio of norms that they cast as moral, just as we cast natural (natural, necessary) law, legislation, and regulation as law when in fact only natural, necessary law is objectively extant law. The rest is the work of man. Natural numbers, natural morality, and natural laws exist out of necessity. All else is the arbitrary work of man for his local convenience.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-25 07:07:00 UTC

  • Sum of Our Differences: Normative Commons are constructed of continuous payments

    Sum of Our Differences: Normative Commons are constructed of continuous payments of forgone opportunities to take discounts. #mattyglesias


    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-24 21:02:51 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/669259909532401666

  • DUELS (worth repeating) You aren’t honor bound to accept one. You’re threatened

    DUELS

    (worth repeating)

    You aren’t honor bound to accept one. You’re threatened that if you impugn the honor of another you will apologize, or fight to prove the truth of your statement, or die by murder for doing neither.

    While positioned as trial by combat, the principle is ancient: “put up or shut up.”

    My position on dueling is that the court is one weapon that is available to us in such matters, and that reputation is in fact, a critical asset in one’s inventory.

    The reason dueling was outlawed was that men hired substitutes (mercenaries) and it became a means of murder rather than suppression of gossip or test of truth telling.

    The reason it was originally promoted, was the equivalent of ‘take it outside’. It allowed men to ‘cool off’ before getting in a fight, and hopefully allow cooler heads to prevail. Also it was quite heavily regulated, with the intention to harm not so much to kill.

    Challenging a man to a duel ends a conversation very quickly since it can escalate in to a very risky life or death proposition. Also, today’s guns are very dangerous by comparison. If we can fight, use sticks and bats, use knives, use swords, use guns, or use courts, then I suspect there would be a lot more truth telling, and a lot less gossip, and a lot more civility in this world.

    And those who ‘cheat’ us, would be put to death in vast numbers.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-24 16:53:00 UTC

  • THE SUM OF OUR DIFFERENCES MEME 1) Sum of Our Differences: Normative Commons are

    THE SUM OF OUR DIFFERENCES MEME

    1) Sum of Our Differences: Normative Commons are constructed of continuous payments of forgone opportunities to take discounts

    2) Sum of Our Differences: Normative Commons are constructed of continuous payments of forgone opportunities to take discounts.

    This is one of the opposition’s techniques: offering discounts in order to escape payments for the commons. In other words, they preach cheating.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-24 16:07:00 UTC

  • Sum of Our Differences: Normative Commons are constructed of continuous payments

    Sum of Our Differences: Normative Commons are constructed of continuous payments of forgone opportunities to take discounts. #mattyglesias


    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-24 16:02:00 UTC

  • Never Turn The Other Cheek when presented with an opportunity for paternalism. S

    Never Turn The Other Cheek when presented with an opportunity for paternalism. Suppress free riding. Suppress signaling of free riders.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-24 07:03:00 UTC

  • Q&A: “Curt, Why do you spend time supporting (x class of people).” Yeah. I’m sup

    Q&A: “Curt, Why do you spend time supporting (x class of people).”

    Yeah. I’m supportive. No I’m not picky about it. I am supportive of any attempt to construct amoral arguments in social science using the language of incentives, voluntary exchange, and truth. And conversely, what do you expect me to do? While I don’t have a bunch of classrooms to use as a sounding board, do you know how awesome it is NOT to hold a professorship where you are trying to preserve your status, trying to defend your department’s position on x or y, trying not to offend potential ‘customers’, and not get into trouble with the politically correct bureaucracy? I’m privileged as hell. So I share it. And in exchange I get people to help me understand what I don’t yet understand. Its awesome. We’re all stumbling in the dark. We all help each other. Humans are awesome.

    And yes, there is a class of lightly autistic fellow that argues what he understands and WANTS to be true, because learning what he doesn’t is hard for him. That’s ok. Show compassion to them. Over time they learn too.

    Never tolerate the rallying and shaming or ad hominems though. I don’t and you shouldn’t. It’s intellectual cancer. Lying to silence the truth.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-24 06:48:00 UTC