Curt Doolittle

Form: Definition

  • A DEFINITION OF ANARCHO CAPITALISM: ANARCHO CAPITALISM: “A research program whic

    A DEFINITION OF ANARCHO CAPITALISM:

    ANARCHO CAPITALISM: “A research program which seeks to provide public services assumed to be necessary functions of a bureaucratic state, without the need for the artifices of state: politicians and bureaucrats in an organization with a monopoly on the definition of property and the means of violence with which to redefine property at will. This program has so far been successful in defining the first testable ethics (See Rothbard), and the first solution to the problem of small scale institutions in a homogenous state. (See Hoppe).” – Curt Doolittle

    Source date (UTC): 2013-01-15 09:36:00 UTC

  • DEFINITION OF HBD: THAT RESEARCH PROGRAM WE CALL “HUMAN BIO DIVERSITY” HUMAN BIO

    DEFINITION OF HBD: THAT RESEARCH PROGRAM WE CALL “HUMAN BIO DIVERSITY”

    HUMAN BIO-DIVERSITY: “The study of heritable human genetic differences and the variation in distribution of those differences within human populations that show affinity for one another. And where those affinities express themselves as political, social, familial, and personal institutions, behaviors. abilities and preferences. And where those behaviors and preferences have economic, institutional, and normative consequences, and where those consequences cause economic and political competition and conflict. HBD is an attempt to understand the source of differences in modes and methods of human cooperation due to biological and normative differences.” – Curt Doolittle

    Source date (UTC): 2013-01-15 09:30:00 UTC

  • WHERE HAVE AMERICANS LOST THE “RIGHT OF JURIDICAL DEFENSE?” Juridical defense is

    WHERE HAVE AMERICANS LOST THE “RIGHT OF JURIDICAL DEFENSE?”

    Juridical defense is the principle that no government may act upon an individual or his property or fail to act upon it, without right to court and jury.

    Of course the IRS is the best example. Where else?

    LAW MUST APPLY TO ALL PERSONS EQUALLY.

    Where have americans lost the protection from universal applicability?

    Two common abuses:

    First is that all individuals within any governance structure must be personally liable for their actions. This means we must be able to sue individuals in all bureaucracies for damages. Including delays.

    Second is taxation. Flat income and sales taxes guarantee minimum taxes. However, I’m not sure progressive taxation is anti libertarian. ( involuntary transfer ). I am sure that misuse of taxes is anti libertarian. ( I’ve written about this elsewhere. )

    The philosophical problem is not so much a tax but the governments ability to increase taxes.

    IF THERE IS NO LAW THEN THERE IS NO CRIME AND THEREFORE LEGISLATIVE LAWS MAY NOT BE RETROACTIVE.

    Where have Americans been subject to retroactive law?

    This doesn’t really need further explanation.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-01-09 19:41:00 UTC

  • DOOLITTLE’S GLOSSARY OF TERMS FOR USE IN POLITICAL DEBATE (From Capitalismv3.com

    http://www.capitalismv3.com/menu/tools-and-techniques-for-political-debate/a-list-of-terms-for-use-in-evaluating-political-debate/CURT DOOLITTLE’S GLOSSARY OF TERMS FOR USE IN POLITICAL DEBATE

    (From Capitalismv3.com)

    Source date (UTC): 2013-01-03 05:25:00 UTC

  • What Are “positive Rights”?

    I’ve been asked to comment on this topic.   I don’t think I can add much to what has been said here. But I will try to add some precision:

    A right is a thing that all people can grant to each other. Otherwise the term has no meaning.  We cannot grant each other positives. We lack the resources to grant resources to others.  We can however, equally forgo opportunities for satisfying our self interest.  In effect, we can all suffer deprivations of opportunity even if we cannot suffer the transfer of resources (money).

    But for clarity: We cannot make laws either.  Laws emerge.  We can only issue orders.  We grant orders legitimacy by calling them analogies to laws. Legislatures issue orders.  Laws emerge from observation of human actions. We cannot make laws, only recognize them.

    Likewise, we cannot make positive rights.  We can only make redistributive commitments – forcible transfer from one group to another.  We grant these goals legitimacy by calling them analogies to rights.

    But neither commands nor redistributions are what they claim to be by analogy.  They are what they are, and can be nothing else: commands and thefts.

    The rest is just gilding a sin in flowery language.

    https://www.quora.com/What-are-positive-rights

  • A Definition Of Libertarianism – Draft Two : From Intuitive Sentiment To Institutional Framework

    Libertarianism lih-ber-tair’-ee-un-ih’-zum (noun)1) SENTIMENT: A sentiment giving precedence to individual liberty above the competing sentiments of care-taking and order — which are the respective priorities of left and right. 2) POLITICAL BIAS: A range of political biases that express the precedence for liberty as the freedom from organized coercion through the minimization or elimination of monopolistic government — and therefore maximizing the self organizing civic virtues and norms. 3) ECONOMIC BIAS: An economic philosophy that seeks to maximize human prosperity by increasing the opportunity for entrepreneurial trial and error by advocating the inviolability of individual property rights, free trade, and sound money. 4) POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: An explicitly articulated political philosophy that reduces all rights to property rights, where property has been obtained by the processes of homesteading, manufacture, and voluntary exchange, which are necessary for peaceful human cooperation because they facilitate the emergence of a market for goods and services where prices convey information that we can use to determine our actions. 5) INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK: An framework of political institutions that seeks to replace the monopoly of the abstract state and its attendant bureaucracy with private formal institutions and public informal institutions that are subject to the pressures of market competition. libertarian lih-ber-tair’-ee-un An individual who demonstrates a preference for one or more of the definitions of Libertarianism.

  • Trying To Define Libertarianism In One Hundred Words. (And Failing)

    LIBERTARIANISM:1) A sentiment giving precedence to individual liberty above care-taking and order. 2) A range of political biases that express that precedence as freedom from organized coercion through the minimization or elimination of monopolistic government — and therefore a reliance on the maximization of self organizing civic virtues and norms. 3) An institutional framework that is reliant upon the sole principle of several property that has been obtained by homesteading, manufacture, and voluntary exchange. The result of which maximizes peaceful human cooperation by facilitating the emergence of a market for goods and services where prices convey information that we use to determine our actions. 4) An explicit political philosophy that reduces all rights to property rights, and seeks to replace the monopoly of the abstract state and its attendant bureaucracy with private institutions that are subject to the pressures of market competition. (138 words)

  • WORD OF THE DAY: NONCE 1. Nonce, time being: the present occasion; “for the nonc

    WORD OF THE DAY: NONCE

    1. Nonce, time being: the present occasion; “for the nonce”

    2. Cryptographic nonce, a number or bit string used only once, in security engineering

    Until today, I always thought ‘nonce’ was some sort of abbreviation for “nonsense”. Because I’ve always seen it used to refer to a one-time key in software.

    You learn something new every day. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2012-09-21 01:02:00 UTC

  • Major Concepts In Economics: What Is Malinvestment?

    J.C. Hewitt’s answer is correct. The Austrian School of Economics invented the term (I think) and they focus on Monetary Policy, where malinvestment means credit is too cheap, and prices are distorted by cheap credit, and the pricing system cannot signal entrepreneurs how to appropriately invest. Thus, they invest poorly. 

    The term has evolved to be used in a more colloquial sense where  malinvestment can be accomplished through:In other words, it can represent any action by the government that distorts the some segment of the economy, including but not limited to cheap credit.

    https://www.quora.com/Major-Concepts-in-Economics-What-is-malinvestment

  • Major Concepts In Economics: What Is Malinvestment?

    J.C. Hewitt’s answer is correct. The Austrian School of Economics invented the term (I think) and they focus on Monetary Policy, where malinvestment means credit is too cheap, and prices are distorted by cheap credit, and the pricing system cannot signal entrepreneurs how to appropriately invest. Thus, they invest poorly. 

    The term has evolved to be used in a more colloquial sense where  malinvestment can be accomplished through:In other words, it can represent any action by the government that distorts the some segment of the economy, including but not limited to cheap credit.

    https://www.quora.com/Major-Concepts-in-Economics-What-is-malinvestment