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http://www.propertarianism.com/2015/06/28/a-short-course-on-propertarianisms-testimonial-truth/A SHORT COURSE IN PROPERTARIANISM’S TESTIMONIAL TRUTH

(worth repeating)

http://www.propertarianism.com/2015/09/26/a-short-course-in-propertarian-reasoning/REPUBLISHED DUE TO READER SUGGESTION: A SHORT COURSE

This is a short summary of Propertarian reasoning. If you sort of ‘get’ the bullet points, they describe the connection between biology, ethics, morality, law, politics, economics, and war.

Testimonialism is a much harder subject for people with some experience in the philosophies of mathematics, physical science, economics and law.

Man is the result of the conservation of energy. We act to outwit the universe and to profit from the differences we seize. We are expensive. We act to gain greater energy than we can obtain by inaction. We act to acquire and inventory. We cooperate because it is disproportionately rewarding to work in concert to reduce opportunity, transaction and switching costs. We punish others for parasitism and free riding even if at high personal cost, because it disincentivizes ALL group cooperation – a terrible cost to all of us.

But cheating remains a useful strategy and as the distribution of knowledge and labor has increased, so has anonymity and obscurity, and some groups have evolved to specialize in truth, commons, and production, and others in deception, parasitism and free riding.

So the history of mankind is the incremental suppression of parasitism as a means of reducing costs such that one group is economically, materially, reproductively, and militarily superior to competitors.

Cooperation and peace are not intrinsic goods any more than Ostracization and War are intrinsic bads. They are merely tools with which we force one another into incremental cooperation by incremental suppression of all possible means of predation, parasitism and free riding.

Curt Doolittle

the Propertarian Institute

Kiev, Ukraine