it is a bit hard to replace your normatively acquired moral intuitions with formal logic of cooperation. But you can do it. And when you do, the world of man is a clear to you as the physical world is to the mathematician and physicist.
Source date (UTC): 2014-12-07 14:38:00 UTC
I agree to non violent cooperation by voluntary exchange. I do not agree to conquest by involuntary takings
Source date (UTC): 2014-12-06 08:59:00 UTC
THE FIRST QUESTION OF COOPERATION
The first question of cooperation is and will always remain “why should I cooperate rather than kill you and take your stuff?” Any question of cooperation, once rejected, does not regress into boycott, but into violence. Violence is the source of all wealth, because it is with violence that we suppress free riding and force all human action into the market for the voluntary organization of production, distribution and trade.
Source date (UTC): 2014-12-05 09:36:00 UTC
[C]hildren talk of beliefs.
Adults talk of institutions.
Children talk of “Want and Belief”
Adults of “Expectations and Habits”.
The mind plans with what it has available.
We need develop means of creating habits that produce expectations.
People then plan with those expectations – because that is what is available to them.
As far as I know only property, homesteaded and voluntarily exchanged, allows such planning by the individual, and decidability by third parties in the case of conflict.
And far as I know the only means of creating ‘scientific’ rules of human cooperation is the organically evolved common law, constructed upon the one rule of property and the one operation of voluntary exchange.
Just as with mathematics we can take the concept of a single unit and simple operations we create all of mathematics, with the concept of property and the simple operation of voluntary exchange, we can create all of human cooperation in equally rich variety.
In the logic of human cooperation that we inarticulately call moral prohibitions and ethical rules, and which we can easily embody in law, we need only one unit “property” and one operation “exchange”.
All commons can be constructed as long as the principles of existence, calculability, and operation-ability are maintained, such that all propositions are decidable without dependence upon information external to the operation.
The only moral society is one in which property, morality and law are synonyms.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev Ukraine.
[C]hildren talk of beliefs.
Adults talk of institutions.
Children talk of “Want and Belief”
Adults of “Expectations and Habits”.
The mind plans with what it has available.
We need develop means of creating habits that produce expectations.
People then plan with those expectations – because that is what is available to them.
As far as I know only property, homesteaded and voluntarily exchanged, allows such planning by the individual, and decidability by third parties in the case of conflict.
And far as I know the only means of creating ‘scientific’ rules of human cooperation is the organically evolved common law, constructed upon the one rule of property and the one operation of voluntary exchange.
Just as with mathematics we can take the concept of a single unit and simple operations we create all of mathematics, with the concept of property and the simple operation of voluntary exchange, we can create all of human cooperation in equally rich variety.
In the logic of human cooperation that we inarticulately call moral prohibitions and ethical rules, and which we can easily embody in law, we need only one unit “property” and one operation “exchange”.
All commons can be constructed as long as the principles of existence, calculability, and operation-ability are maintained, such that all propositions are decidable without dependence upon information external to the operation.
The only moral society is one in which property, morality and law are synonyms.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev Ukraine.
–“You don’t have a right to rights. Pay full price, like everyone else.”– Eli Harman
–“The entrance fee to the land of Liberty is your contractual obligation to risk life, limb and property to obtain and defend it. Free riders have permission only – not Liberty. Only fee paying members have existential rights.”– Curt Doolittle (Punish the wicked.)
–“You don’t have a right to rights. Pay full price, like everyone else.”– Eli Harman
–“The entrance fee to the land of Liberty is your contractual obligation to risk life, limb and property to obtain and defend it. Free riders have permission only – not Liberty. Only fee paying members have existential rights.”– Curt Doolittle (Punish the wicked.)
Well, of course you can be wealthier if you don’t pay the costs of holding a monopoly on a territory. Free riding is profitable.
Source date (UTC): 2014-12-04 06:14:00 UTC
The entrance fee to the land of Liberty is your contractual obligation to risk life, limb and property to obtain and defend it.
Free riders have permission only – not Liberty. Only fee paying members have existential rights.
(Punish the wicked.)
Source date (UTC): 2014-12-03 14:06:00 UTC
Just doin’ my job of putting violence back into liberty one paragraph at a time.
Source date (UTC): 2014-12-03 13:57:00 UTC