Curt Doolittle

Form: Aphorism

  • Competition Is The Only Sanctioned Involuntary Transfer

    The ethics of competition. From another piece I’ve been writing. “[C]ompetition” itself, as we use the term, is the normative sanction of external involuntary transfer by an artificial, counter-intuitive, set of rules we call the market, consisting of voluntary transfer of goods and services, by fully informed consensual exchange, and insured as fully informed and consensual by warranty, at the cost of opportunity and investment to other producers of similar goods, in an effort to coerce producers to innovate in their use of resources, to produce goods for all at lower price, or higher quality, in an effort to produce goods and services at the lowest cost and highest quality for all consumers participating in that set of normative rules that comprise that market, and which we in turn call ‘a society’.

  • Competition Is The Only Sanctioned Involuntary Transfer

    The ethics of competition. From another piece I’ve been writing. “[C]ompetition” itself, as we use the term, is the normative sanction of external involuntary transfer by an artificial, counter-intuitive, set of rules we call the market, consisting of voluntary transfer of goods and services, by fully informed consensual exchange, and insured as fully informed and consensual by warranty, at the cost of opportunity and investment to other producers of similar goods, in an effort to coerce producers to innovate in their use of resources, to produce goods for all at lower price, or higher quality, in an effort to produce goods and services at the lowest cost and highest quality for all consumers participating in that set of normative rules that comprise that market, and which we in turn call ‘a society’.

  • Voluntary Transfer Is The Only Testable Ethical Principle

    THE ONLY TEST OF ETHICAL STATEMENTS [T]he only test of any ethical statement is whether all transfers caused by any act, are voluntary transfers – including involuntary transfers of goods, actions and opportunity, and including both direct involuntary transfers by externality, asymmetry of knowledge, fraud, theft or violence (in that order), and including reverse involuntary transfers caused by impediment, free-riding, rent seeking, or privatization (in that order). There is no other test of any ethical statement. There isn’t. Period. – Curt

  • The Honesty Of Violence

    PROPERTY RIGHTS ARE ONLY HONESTLY ACQUIRED BY ORGANIZED VIOLENCE [A]ny attempt to state that rights are acquired other than by organized violence is an attempt to acquire them at a discount. In other words, it is an act of fraud. Any attempt at utilitarian justification then opens us to the utilitarianism of involuntary transfer, and undermines the entire libertarian argument that property rights are absolute. – Curt Doolittle : “Taking liberty out of the ghetto, and back to the aristocracy, one day at a time.” 😉

  • PROPERTY RIGHTS ARE ONLY HONESTLY ACQUIRED BY ORGANIZED VIOLENCE Any attempt to

    PROPERTY RIGHTS ARE ONLY HONESTLY ACQUIRED BY ORGANIZED VIOLENCE

    Any attempt to state that rights are acquired other than by organized violence is an attempt to acquire them at a discount. In other words, it is an act of fraud. Any attempt at utilitarian justification then opens us to the utilitarianism of involuntary transfer, and undermines the entire libertarian argument that property rights are absolute.

    – Curt Doolittle : “Taking liberty out of the ghetto, and back to the aristocracy, one day at a time.” 😉

    (Libertarians should have fun with that one.) 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-03-20 14:59:00 UTC

  • COMPETITION AS VIRTUE The only moral duty I can be sure of, is to produce goods

    COMPETITION AS VIRTUE

    The only moral duty I can be sure of, is to produce goods and services for the market, that are free from involuntary transfer, and to do so at a profit.

    It’s the only empirical test that my ideas are proven beneficial to, and by, my fellow man.

    Everything else is fantasy. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2013-03-20 08:55:00 UTC

  • ORGANIZED VIOLENCE We can use organized violence to create government. We can us

    ORGANIZED VIOLENCE

    We can use organized violence to create government.

    We can use organized violence to create property rights.

    We can use organized violence to enforce property rights.

    We can use organized violence to destroy property rights.

    But you can have neither government nor property rights without violence.

    The source of freedom is violence.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-03-18 01:48:00 UTC

  • DEMOCRACY: HELP MAKE IT PAST TENSE

    DEMOCRACY: HELP MAKE IT PAST TENSE.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-03-17 12:17:00 UTC

  • All Government Is Violence

    All Government Is Violence

    Source date (UTC): 2013-03-17 03:43:00 UTC

  • “YOU ARE THE UNIVERSE, EXPRESSING ITSELF AS A HUMAN, FOR A LITTLE WHILE” Humans:

    “YOU ARE THE UNIVERSE, EXPRESSING ITSELF AS A HUMAN, FOR A LITTLE WHILE”

    Humans: the universe’s fascinating, and possibly unique experiment.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-03-11 01:42:00 UTC