Category: Natural Law and Reciprocity

THE HIGH COST OF TRUTH AND THE HIGH RETURN OF CIVIC SOCIETY

What if neither state, academy, religion or media could speak falsehoods into the commons (audience) without fear of legal retaliation and necessity of restitution? What if state, academy, religion and media had to warrant their product as all other products are warranted?

What if religious could state what prophets believed, but could not claim it was true, only myth, parable, and metaphor? What if professors could not teach falsehoods and had to warrant as such? What if philosophers could not rely upon conflation, loading, framing and overloading?

What if we taught truth-telling, history, and literature again as well as science and mathematics? Meaning grammar, rhetoric, observation, and testimony?

Given that the Flynn effect appears to be caused by the spread of scientific methods of thought – general rules rather than individual uses – why wouldn’t we experience the same expansion of human capability by the institution of truth telling that we have experienced with literacy, general education, and science?

Wouldn’t truth telling be the next obvious stage in pacification, continuing humanity’s long history of incrementally suppressing parasitism and forcing people into productive rather than parasitic behaviors in order to survive?

What is the price you would be willing to pay to remove lies from public discourse as we have largely eliminated deception from contract, and fraud from products and services? Why should we not cleanse the commons the same as we have cleansed the private sector.

Why not end the marxist, socialist, and postmodern era’s profligate deception as a means of uniting academy and state at the expense of civic society and church? Is telling the truth so high a cost that you would preserve the various means of deception that seek to restore the authoritarianism of the church?

Truth is enough. But liars love their lies, and the utility of their lying. They argue that a beneficial lie is better than a difficult truth. But when in history has an increased tax – a cost we must pay to produce a commons – not a burden for us?

Truth is a high tax to pay.

But with that tax we create liberty, prosperity, and a better mankind.

Curt Doolittle

The Propertarian Institute

Kiev, Ukraine.

TRUTH

Americans have too long tolerated lying in commerce and in public discourse, and instead of evicerating libel, slander, and fraud, we can dramatically improve our lives by requiring truthfulness. Amazon takes a great step forward in creating an example of the use of marketing to commit fraud.

—“AMAZON, the world’s largest online marketplace, is suing more than 1,000 people suspected of selling fake reviews in one of the biggest legal actions to uncover hidden identities on the internet.

The web giant is mounting the unprecedented court action to strip 1,114 alleged fake reviewers of their anonymity and force them to pay damages for the “manipulation and deception” of Amazon customers, according to court documents filed in America on Friday.

It is the first time any company has taken action against its own reviewers on this scale, according to legal experts, and could have far-reaching implications for privacy and the way consumer websites are policed.”—–