LETTER TO A PHILOSOPHICAL EXCUSE-MAKER You see, you can build whatever contraption you want for your own use. You can practice whatever hobby that you want in your own home. You can say anything you want in your own living room. You can satisfy anyone willing in your bedroom. But you cannot sell a product without responsibility for the consequences it may cause. You cannot sell a service without responsibility for the service you provide and consequences you cause.
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A Letter to a Philosophical Excuse Maker
So why is it that you may speak without regard for the consequences of your speech? We already limit hazards. We already limit libel, slander, and the disclosure of information. Free speech was included in our laws only because we did not know how to determine what was truthful speech in the constitutional era. But that is because of greek folly – we did not understand the difference between exploratory public speech and critical public testimony. Now we do. We know that truthful speech is not in fact an act of speaking the truth, but of warranty by due diligence that we do not speak falsehood, and do no harm. Ergo, I know you do not speak the truth, and I know your words do harm. that does not mean that if you spoke in concrete recommendations that those recommendations would be immoral. It means that you do not speak in concrete recommendations, and instead that you are attempting to produce psychological rewards by expanding the number of those who speak the same fantasy story. This is called the “social construction of reality”. a postmodern technique whereby speakers use experiential terminology of non-causal construction to obscure their intent to decieve. And that is what you are engaged in. We cannot object to correspondent social construction of reality because truth by definition cannot produce a harm – only a correction. But we can object to non-correspondent construction of reality because it harms others, and by consequence the commons. Why you cannot pollute air, water, and land, is the same reason you cannot pollute information. They are commons. And your comforting lies do those commons harm Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine -
You see, I only have to testify to what I can know, and I only CAN testify to wh
You see, I only have to testify to what I can know, and I only CAN testify to what I can know.
So if I can’t know something I can’t testify to it. I can only say “I don’t know’.
And in the tradeoff between “i don’t know ‘but’, and ‘I just don’t know so I can’t say’, we only need to look for perverse incentives.
You might not realize it but I’m calling people who do what you do (and religious people as well) mere liars. Sophisticated lying. Lying to the self as well as others. But in the end, mere liars.
We lie for many reasons. We lie to ourselves. We need the mystical part of religion to lie to ourselves. Becuase the curse of reason is that we know things we wish not to.
And apparently the price of reason is that we must invent un-reason in order to compensate for the horror of reason.
Yet some of us, have the courage to look fate in the face and de-conflate the moral and the true. We provide ourselves few psychological comforts other than the joy of life. We know that we must not harm, must not steal, must not tell black lies.
But we do not know what is right or true. We know only what is wrong and what is error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, and deception.
The rest of knowledge and action and experience is up to us to choose from.
But why do some of us have this courage and others not?
It’s because for some of us, almost all our intuitions and ideas fail, so we need recipes to follow in order to succeed, simply by not failing.
It is because for some of us, we need assistance deciding between our ideas so that we choose the ones least likely to fail.
It is because for some of us, we must decide conflicts between others who have different perceptions of events – and to resolve those disputes without favoritism and fear of retaliation.
In other words, becuase some of us are better at deciding than others.
Source date (UTC): 2016-06-21 06:21:00 UTC
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Expert Opinion May Influence Fact, But Not Contract
Expert opinion may clarify facts, but says not thing about cooperation. Gay marriage is not a matter of fact but a matter of contract. The government forced an involuntary contract (again).My opinion is that 1) constructively, marriage consists of (a) reciprocal power of attorney (b) formation of a corporation into which both parties contribute the totality of their assets. (c) reciprocal insurance against vicissitudes of life.And that (2) the origin of marriage appears to have been (a) retention of property as the division of labor (merit) increased. (b) a means of preventing fratricide, (c) a means of controlling female reproductivity by preventing her from forcing costs onto the tribe, and (d) an institutional means of absorbing lower class males.And that (3) marriage remains either (a) a corporate long-term investment, (b) utility for those who have property, and (c) a disutility under redistributive government.And that (4) the purpose of gay marriage can be solved by (1). And that the difference between gay and heterosexual marriage is substantial for the reasons listed above. -
Expert Opinion May Influence Fact, But Not Contract
Expert opinion may clarify facts, but says not thing about cooperation. Gay marriage is not a matter of fact but a matter of contract. The government forced an involuntary contract (again).My opinion is that 1) constructively, marriage consists of (a) reciprocal power of attorney (b) formation of a corporation into which both parties contribute the totality of their assets. (c) reciprocal insurance against vicissitudes of life.And that (2) the origin of marriage appears to have been (a) retention of property as the division of labor (merit) increased. (b) a means of preventing fratricide, (c) a means of controlling female reproductivity by preventing her from forcing costs onto the tribe, and (d) an institutional means of absorbing lower class males.And that (3) marriage remains either (a) a corporate long-term investment, (b) utility for those who have property, and (c) a disutility under redistributive government.And that (4) the purpose of gay marriage can be solved by (1). And that the difference between gay and heterosexual marriage is substantial for the reasons listed above. -
I think that all people should be profiled by ethnicity beucase we all ACT categ
I think that all people should be profiled by ethnicity beucase we all ACT categorically by ethnicity in ALL walks of life.
Source date (UTC): 2016-06-14 16:06:13 UTC
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NO LIBERTINES, RIGHTS ARE MADE. Fact: Natural rights are necessary for voluntary
NO LIBERTINES, RIGHTS ARE MADE.
Fact:
Natural rights are necessary for voluntary cooperation in a market.
They are something we desire to construct.
We are rarely successful.
Rights exist if and only if enough people ensure that they do by the organised use of violence to warranty those rights will be enforced.
Ergo, rights do not exist any more than dances exist, unless we act to create them for one another.
Period.
Property ( that which an organism expends energy obtaining, and thereafter defends ) is demonstrated by most animals.
Property rights are created when two or more people create an agreement for the reciprocal insurance of one another’s common and personal property.
Private property refers to that which is not held as a commons.
Property is demonstrated by defense ( retaliation ).
Property rights are demonstrated by reciprocal insurance.
Property rights evolved in parallel with the evolution of both the family, inheritance, and the division of labor, by devolving from nearly universal commons to nearly universal private property.
Rights can only exist as terms of contract.
When we say we have rights this is false. It cannot be true. Instead we demand rights in order to cooperate willingly.
You can ‘hold’ or ‘believe’ whatever you wish. But Wishing it was so does not make it so. ACTING DOES.
So you may WISH that we work together to produce – existentially – – those rights, but they cannot exist otherwise.
As for your ancestors, what is the difference between using potatoes to reproduce at eight people per acre instead of one or two, then when the blight arrives, blaming others for your folly?
…and conducting war with the proceeds of your productivity?
In other words proles like yourself compete though overconsumption, over reproduction, and false moral criticism. ( r-selection ) while the middle and upper class use proceeds to limit their reproduction and deny you your parasitic overconsumption, over reproduction, and use of false moral equivalency. For the productive and the eugenic build civilization largely by limiting their own consumption and limiting the overconsumption and over reproduction of the parasitic underclasses.
So what you are doing is making a false equivalency to commit fraud: engaging in over consumption and over reproduction and the dysgenic and impoverishing effects of that proletarian strategy.
So there is nothing false or immoral by preventing human locusts.
There is everything false and moral in denying the parasitic over reproductive access to consumption.
In fact, since the lower classes are more damaging to the community than the upper classes are advantageous, the central reason for western success has been the systematic expansion of property and the systematic use of manorialism, war, and hanging.
In fact, while the west does possess a geographic advantage, and the west escaped eastern totalitarianism because of our wet climate, our success at dragging mankind out of disease ignorance and poverty has been our use of testimonial ( scientific) truth and aggressive systematic eugenics.
I suppose the socialist literature does not address the fact that Ireland and Scotland and good parts of Wales and Brittany, were third world countries until the nineteenth century.
Natural rights: I shall not impose costs, by deed, word, or externality, upon the mind, body, Kin, several property, shareholder property, or commons, that others have expended costs in constructing, or maintaining. And I shall insure all those others who obey this law against such impositions of cost, by retaliating against those who impose such costs.
This is natural law. It is the law of non-imposition, for the purpose of creating preserving and expanding voluntary cooperation.
Ergo, comments by other posters are made in ignorance, error, deceit, or fraud.
Property predates cooperation.
Cooperation requires non-parasitism.
Non parasitism requires retaliation.
Retaliation requires organization.
Organization requires contract.
Contract requires decidability.
Property ( cost ) provides decidability independent of opinion, norm or law.
The reason for the systematic decline in human violence has been the evolution of property rights, and the suppression of the reproduction of the underclasses.
We incrementally suppress parasitism and increase cooperation be the incremental evolution of laws that articulate prohibitions against all innovative attempts to decivilize through the imposition of costs by word, deed, conspiracy, or externality.
The question of the 20th century is why we do not treat statist parasitism in the form of downward redistribution, and advocacy of violations of property as the conspiracy to defraud that they are.
Source date (UTC): 2016-06-12 14:29:00 UTC
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I made an assertion.Defeat it.Nicea was called by Justinian to force a totalitar
I made an assertion.Defeat it.Nicea was called by Justinian to force a totalitarian church after Roman law failed.
Source date (UTC): 2016-06-09 06:18:41 UTC
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It’s trivial to overthrow a modern state. Look at the evidence. That’s not the i
It’s trivial to overthrow a modern state. Look at the evidence. That’s not the issue. Institutional change is.
Source date (UTC): 2016-06-07 02:07:11 UTC
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We must fight, or the evil people win. And there are enough of us that want to f
We must fight, or the evil people win. And there are enough of us that want to fight so the evil people don’t.
Source date (UTC): 2016-06-07 02:02:28 UTC
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Only a statist in favor of democracy can advocate for unanimity of belief, prefe
Only a statist in favor of democracy can advocate for unanimity of belief, preference and role. NRx=Prosecutors.
Source date (UTC): 2016-06-07 01:46:35 UTC
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