by Adam Voight
Assuming humans evolved, then we can deduce that the two supreme rules for humans to follow are: avoid parasitism, and act so that the maxim of your action can be universalized to minimize the extinction of all non-parasites.
This ethic will maximize cooperation among all rational agents. All other laws must fall short of this ideal.
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-30 17:34:00 UTC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwnPgscg0vUFRIEDMAN ON WAR
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-30 01:17:00 UTC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aofPdMbXzUQOUR BIBLE: THE ILLIAD. PLEASE WATCH THIS SHORT VIDEO TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT, AND WHY IT IS MORE IMPORTANT FOR US, THAN THE STORY OF JESUS.
(important comment)
—” very important: notice how the plot hinges on how the King does not own the warrior. Achilles is free to reject authority, perhaps because of aristocratic egalitarianism.”— adam voight
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-29 20:14:00 UTC
—“Eli Harman, I may disagree with some of your views, but I am blown away with the level of intelligence, knowledge and civility I find when I am reading the posts and commentary on both yours and Curt Doolittle’s pages. Especially after Ive been debating Ivy league progressives for a while, it is simply astounding to see the obvious difference in verbal IQ and reasoning. I admit, its reassuring just to know that current human intelligence is leaning much farther in this direction, and not so much in the other”.—Candice Mary
Argument by exposition of incentives to change in capital (property in toto) vs psychologism; persuasion by offers of exchange vs ridicule, shaming, rallying, guilt; truth vs falsehood in method of argument. In other words, we argue by what is true, voluntary, and productive, vs what is false, involuntary, and parasitic.
We are not kin, we are not friends, we are not allies, and it appears that since you want to lie, cheat, and steal from our productivity; and not to engage in productive, fully informed, and warrantied exchange; and that we are enemies. so why should should I care of your ridicule, shaming, deception and theft – and, for that matter, why should I and mine – tolerate your existence?
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-29 10:16:00 UTC
by Brett Morgan
(from elsewhere)
Gonna borrow a lot from Curt Doolittle here and say that as long as a market demands a state, there will be one. While it’s true that as we go up in class, the members of said classes can better organize and operate without the apparatus of the state, forming a society that is absent of all the lower classes that would be unable to function in this way would be detrimental.
Observing the iq distribution of Asians and Europeans, we see that there is a spike and high concentration of the Asians on the upper end of average, whereas Europeans have a broader distribution. Our diverse range of intelligence allows for a hierarchy and societal structure that allowed us the most beneficial distribution of labour and this granted us the ability to advance faster and in special ways as opposed to Asian societies. As I see it, the only way to make anarchy work is to concentrate the best of the upper classes in one area, thus negating one of our best characteristics as a people.
I think that forming society based on natural hierarchy and aristocracy would be the optimal system in which the minimum amount of state is needed to organize society. As Doolittle has said before, those of us that *can* operate with less restriction, may. In the past there were different laws governing different classes.
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-27 20:56:00 UTC
—“People avoid responsibility while demanding liberty, failing to see that responsibility naturally leads to liberty, total responsibility leads to sovereignty.”— Bill Joslin
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-27 12:32:00 UTC
—“for the later Stoics, ethics—understood as the study of how to live one’s life—was the point of doing philosophy”—
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-27 07:13:00 UTC
—“the political events of 88-86 B.C.E. changed the course of Western philosophy in general, and Stoicism in particular, for the remainder of antiquity. At that time, philosophers were politically in charge at Athens, and made the crucial mistake of siding with Mithridates against Rome. The defeat of the King of Pontus, and consequently of Athens, spelled disaster for the latter and led to a diaspora of philosophers throughout the Mediterranean.”—
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-27 07:10:00 UTC
THE CORRECT PRACTICE OF PRAYER, RITUAL, AND SACRIFICE
–“Roman religion depended on knowledge and the correct practice of prayer, ritual, and sacrifice (not ‘wisdom’).
The priesthoods of public religion were held by members of the elite class. During the Roman Republic (509–27 BC), elected public officials might also serve as augurs and pontiffs.
Priests married, raised families, and led politically active lives. Julius Caesar became pontifex maximus before he was elected consul. The Roman triumph was at its core a religious procession in which the victorious general displayed his piety and his willingness to serve the public good by dedicating a portion of his spoils to the gods, especially Jupiter, who embodied just rule.
Each home had a household shrine at which prayers and libations to the family’s domestic deities were offered. Neighborhood shrines and sacred places such as springs and groves dotted the city.
The Roman calendar was structured around religious observances. Women, slaves, and children all participated in a range of religious activities. Some public rituals could be conducted only by women, and women formed what is perhaps Rome’s most famous priesthood, the state-supported Vestals, who tended Rome’s sacred hearth for centuries, until disbanded under Christian domination.”–
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-27 06:50:00 UTC
by Andrew Clarke
I’d argue that the monetary system we have based on credit, e.g.; mortgages, loans, higher-purchase etc, is in part (and possibly in whole to the poor) the abolition of private property. At the macro level, the point at which money is created with a debt attached, does that ‘loan’ allow us to ever truly own anything?
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-26 20:50:00 UTC