Curt Doolittle

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  • THE CATHEDRAL’S DEMAND FOR RESPECT I am not sure why I should treat a coward, a

    THE CATHEDRAL’S DEMAND FOR RESPECT

    I am not sure why I should treat a coward, a liar and a thief with respect. Does anyone know the answer to that question? Because I certainly don’t.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-02 07:43:00 UTC

  • Curt: Address issue of right to self Government

    Curt: Address issue of right to self Government.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-01 14:15:00 UTC

  • QUESTION: “Who is more prominent economist?” (E.S.L. Question) Economist? I am a

    QUESTION: “Who is more prominent economist?” (E.S.L. Question)

    Economist?

    I am always unsure what people are referring to. Today that label largely refers to an econometrician, the way mathematics refers to a mathematician: as a methodologist. But I think when we ask most questions of economics, we are asking about who is the best political economist, or social scientist, because econometrics (measurement) is really not all that interesting except as a methodology for addressing one of the following domains:

    …………………………………….Mathematician………………………………

    ………………………………………………|………………………………………….

    …………………………………….Econometrician………………………………

    ………………………………………………|………………………………………….

    Political Economist…………………..|………………..Monetary Analyst.

    Social Scientist………………………..|………………..Financial Analyst.

    Legal Philosopher…………………….|………………..Investor……………

    Public Intellectual…………………….|………………..Entrepreneur…….

    There are a very small number of econometricians contributing to each of the above domains. If we look at citations it’s surprising how small the number is.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-01 04:59:00 UTC

  • IS PATERNALISM THEN, MERELY THE PREVENTION OF FREE RIDING? And isn’t aristocracy

    IS PATERNALISM THEN, MERELY THE PREVENTION OF FREE RIDING?

    And isn’t aristocracy familial paternalism, tribal paternalism, national paternalism?And isn’t the suppression of lying a parental, communal, and aristocratic necessity?

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-01 02:58:00 UTC

  • QUESTION: How can you lie if you don’t know the truth? In order to stop lies, sh

    QUESTION: How can you lie if you don’t know the truth? In order to stop lies, shouldn’t you first learn what they are?

    ANSWER: You can speak truthfully, even if you cannot speak the most parsimonious and therefore ‘ultimate’ truth. It is very hard to load, frame and obscure operational language. So you can warranty your truthful speech but you cannot warranty any theory or deduction is true.

    ht https://www.facebook.com/MartensBenjamin

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-30 20:11:00 UTC

  • If men must work to suppress their impulsive desires, why must women not work to

    If men must work to suppress their impulsive desires, why must women not work to oppress their impulsive desires? Are we not equal in rights and responsibilities?

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-30 10:59:00 UTC

  • AN ORDERED LIST, but what is the order? American football Hockey Rugby Basketbal

    AN ORDERED LIST, but what is the order?

    American football

    Hockey

    Rugby

    Basketball

    Polo

    Soccer

    Volleyball

    Baseball

    Cricket

    Tennis

    Badminton

    Golf

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-30 07:37:00 UTC

  • WHAT ABOUT THE BLEEDING HEARTS? That begs the question: are the bleeding heart l

    WHAT ABOUT THE BLEEDING HEARTS?

    That begs the question: are the bleeding heart libertarians moral or immoral?

    Or said correctly: (a) do they intuit and prefer an objectively moral society, and (b) would their vision produce via institutions a moral or immoral society? (c) And would this society produce sufficient morality to produce liberty? (d)Or would it produce increased or decreased demand for authority? (e) Are they creators of immorality, or are they vectors for lies or not?

    I think that they are an interesting contrast against immoral libertines.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-28 08:14:00 UTC

  • In the Ethics of Liberty, Rothbard asserts that blackmail is ethical and deducib

    In the Ethics of Liberty, Rothbard asserts that blackmail is ethical and deducible from property rights.

    What is the Propertarian view of blackmail?

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    http://mises.org/rothbard/ethics/sixteen.asp

    “As in all voluntary exchanges, both parties benefit from such an exchange: Smith receives money, and Jones obtains the service of Smith’s not disseminating information about him which Jones does not wish to see others possess. The right to blackmail is deducible from the general property right in one’s person and knowledge and the right to disseminate or not disseminate that knowledge. How can the right to blackmail be denied?”

    Eli Harman

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-27 09:01:00 UTC

  • ARE THE ASSUMPTIONS BEHIND THE LAW OF DIMINISHING MARGINAL UTILITY? (I can’t fig

    http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-assumptions-of-the-law-of-diminishing-marginal-utility/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=1WHAT ARE THE ASSUMPTIONS BEHIND THE LAW OF DIMINISHING MARGINAL UTILITY?

    (I can’t figure out if this is an honest question or some moron’s bot-work.)

    The only assumption in marginal utility is that it is a general rule of arbitrary precision like all general rules must be constructed of arbitrary precision by logical necessity.

    So as far as I know, no assumptions external to the construction of ALL general theories are present in marginal utility. It is just that the distribution of particulars under social sciences are wider that n the distribution of particulars in the physical sciences: man learns. Hydrogen does as hydrogen is, and that’s the end of it.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-22 17:58:00 UTC