Category: Natural Law and Reciprocity

SIMPLICITY: TRUTH IS ENOUGH

Free speech in a culture of men who tell the truth increases the velocity of cooperation and production. Free speech in a culture of men who systemically lie, by sophisticated means, temporarily increases consumption at the expense of trust and the consequential increases in innovation and production. In the 20th century science is somewhat immune from lying if not from their fascination with non-truthful speech, because so little (other than global warming) has been profitable to lie about and because like doctors and lawyers they protect their ‘ticket’ by persecuting offenders. It is this same ethic that is missing from politics. As such, without a systemic means of policing, free speech is simply a legalized endorsement of systematic lying for personal, organizational, political, and tribal gain. The only means we have of such a defense at the extra-professional scale of general political speech is the law. We may never be able to speak or know the ultimate truth on any matter, but thanks to science we have learned how to speak truthfully, and truthful speech is s required wherever others may come to harm, and politics, as the organized application of violence, is by definition the use of harm whenever used deceitfully.

Truth is enough The law is enough. Property rights are enough. And voluntary Exchange is a sufficient vehicle for the achievement of human wants and needs.