Eli Harman: “An evolutionary didactic method: teach morality by returning imposed costs to their imposers. But this method works slowly”.
–“Punishing the wicked forces them to act a bit more morally. But you cannot teach them to desire higher morality without punishing lower morality. And if you punish them for immorality they will reject you moral teachings. So the only solution is to punish them until they learn their own higher morality (or die).”—
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-26 11:15:00 UTC
UNIVERSAL ANTI LIBERTINE ARGUMENT:
(good)
It’s not an opinion, it’s a fact: I am a libertarian, and you are a libertine trying to dress-up respectably in libertarian verbal costume. And just as stamping your products with a false weight and measure, or attempting to imitate another consumer brand, or giving an oath you have no intention of fulfilling, lying that you are a libertarian rather than a libertine is not a matter of debate. It us a matter of you lying, in order to avoid paying the high cost of ethical and moral behaviour so that you can export costs for the social order into others.
In other words you are just trying to use a lot of excuses to skate on s debt.
Libertines who claim they are libertarians are just debt evaders. Thieves. Liars. Fools.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-26 08:11:00 UTC
–“Truth defeats gossip, operationalism defeats obscurantism, testimony defeats platonism, but only declaring the normative commons as shareholder property rights allow us to punish the use of gossip, obscurantism and platonism; and only punishment for such thefts provides an incentive against their use.”–
Punish evil.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-22 10:12:00 UTC
CONFUSING CONFLATIONS IN ROTHBARDIAN ETHICS
The attribution of value to an object, rather than it’s cost of acquisition, is to confuse it’s cost to the producer with its value in exchange. This is an irrefutable statement.
Just as it is an error to attribute cost to the user, to market value, it is an error to attribute market value, to cost to the user. This is an irrefutable statement.
Just as it is an error to confuse that which the individual will act to defend, as the transformational product of his efforts, with the conflicts that a polity will choose to defend. This is an irrefutable statement.
I other words, the Rothbardian cosmopolitan lie is an attempt to use overloading (which clearly is a successful means of lying) to force the strong, high trust, landed, with built capital, to permit parasitism by production-less exchange, frauds of various asymmetries, lies, deceptions conspiracies, privatizations of commons, socializations of losses, and a host of immoralities.
The purpose of Rothbardian ethics is to justify parasitism. It is in fact,t he most organized, systematic, advocacy of immorality ever constructed by man.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-21 15:26:00 UTC
THE ABSURDITY OF THE LIBERTINE LIE AND THE SOLUTION IN PROPERTARIAN LOGIC
(worth repeating)
Violence is the starting point for all cooperative, ethical, moral, and political questions. The first question of all ethics is quite simple: “Why do I not kill you and take your stuff?” All questions of cooperation, ethics, and politics are consequent to that question.
It is a common fallacy, including the fallacy of argumentation, that violence is external to the question of cooperation. Arguing such is an attempt, by use of obscurant, verbalist deception, to forbid retaliation while retaining the ability to conduct fraud, conspiracy, and immorality.
The fact that it was so easy to attract and persuade fools who fall prey to the rationalist fallacy, and to the fallacy of aggression, and even to the fallacy of argumentation, is an example of how simple it is to overload human reason.
I find it somewhat humorous that we had to invent writing, numbers, arithmetic, history, and law, to compensate for our ability merely to remember. We had to invent mathematics, geometry to overcome the limits of our perception. We had an enormously absurd struggle to invent calculus of independent objects, and that Einstein’s (albeit not Poincare’s) revolution is nothing more than the absolute abandonment of relative framing.
Yet the average imbecile still suggests that reason and rationalism are somehow of the same caliber as the various forms of calculation and the vast institutional networks for calculating, we have built in every single area of life, in order for us to compensate for the absolutely illusory competence of reason, perception, memory and judgement.
Only an idiot would fall for such a fallacy. But then, without a means of calculation, it is easy to be an idiot.
Hence, Propertarianism. ie: morality stated as calculation, independent of judgement, memory, perception, and reason.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-21 15:13:00 UTC
THREE COMMANDMENTS
I always thought “Deeds, Not Words” was a nice but not terribly important truism. However, now that I understand it, it sits among the few commandments I have learned:
1) Do nothing unto others that you would not have done unto you.
2) Demonstrate deeds, rather than words.
3) Speak the truth, even if it means your death, and require the truth, or promise death.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-21 13:56:00 UTC
THE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE OF IMMORALITY
(repost)
–“Moral rules are objectively expressible and universal to man. It is more that acting morally is an advantage for groups with superior abilities and resources, and acting immorally is an advantage for groups with inferior abilities and resources. Parasitism is a successful strategy. It’s immoral, but then, all people who practice it, justify their immorality.”—
If others can exercise their competitive advantage by lying, cheating and stealing – even if by complex means, then why cannot truth tellers exercise their competitive advantage by the organized application of violence to ostracize, evict, conquer, enslave, or kill them?
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-21 02:49:00 UTC
Moral Foundations Theory expressed as Propertarian Property Rights http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/09/28/moral-foundations-as-property-rights/ via @feedly
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-20 08:10:18 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/524110347028819968
PARASITISM
Given a sufficient supply of hosts, and given the hosts survive, parasitism (free riding) is an effective if not luxurious evolutionary strategy.
Human on human parasitism is not the exception in history. It is the norm.
Market competition and the resulting eugenic reproduction are the optimum prohibition on all parasitism.
Marxists were wrong of course. The value of one’ efforts is in the organization of voluntary production. Including the construction of property rights, as well as the production of goods and services. Labor is an irrelevant commodity whose value exists only under the voluntary structure of production.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-16 10:41:00 UTC
UNIFICATION FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROHIBITION
I have modified the structure of philosophy in Propertarianism like this:
Metaphysics
>The Mind
Epistemology
Truth
>Cooperation
Ethics
>Sociology
Politics
>Beauty
Aesthetics
Again, my purpose is to unite science and philosophy and to make the use of philosophy as a vehicle for deception much more difficult if not impossible. We cannot guard against the sub 106 population. It is in their interest to be told there is a free ride if they will follow. We can however, guard against the middle class members who always make use of the people of lesser ability by their deceptions.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-08 16:09:00 UTC