Curt Doolittle

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  • Why Would A Civilian Living Peacefully Need A Semi-automatic Gun?

    Because if he is living peacefully, he lives peacefully because he and those like him have guns.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-would-a-civilian-living-peacefully-need-a-semi-automatic-gun

  • Why Would A Civilian Living Peacefully Need A Semi-automatic Gun?

    Because if he is living peacefully, he lives peacefully because he and those like him have guns.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-would-a-civilian-living-peacefully-need-a-semi-automatic-gun

  • What Is Capitalism’s Fundamental Flaw?

    CAPITALISM DOESN’T HAVE A FLAW – IT’S INSUFFICIENT

    It’s a necessary tool for cooperating in a vast division of labor. Humans are not all that meritocratic by nature, and don’t like lotteries.  And capitalism is a necessary, meritocratic, lottery.

    It isn’t just. It isn’t fair. It’s just necessary.  So how do you take what’s necessary and then on top of it, make it somewhat just and somewhat fair?   That’s what we’re always trying to do. It’s just that government as we currently know it, isn’t a very good way of doing that.

    There is a very big difference between fair and desirable.

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-capitalisms-fundamental-flaw

  • Why Is Income Redistribution Such A Problem For Republicans? Provide Data And Any Other Quantitative Evidence.

    INCOME REDISTRIBUTION IS A PROBLEM FOR EVERYONE

    Otherwise we wouldn’t have a 1% movement.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-is-income-redistribution-such-a-problem-for-Republicans-Provide-data-and-any-other-quantitative-evidence

  • Where Do Atheists Believe The Bible Came From?

    GOOD ANSWERS HERE, SO I’LL ADD ONE POINT OTHERS SEEM TO MISS

    It is a collection of children’s and campfire stories from an era of profound poverty, ignorance and violence, and most of the new testament was an attempt to rebel against the roman empire the same way that the primitive world attempted to adopt the scripture of Marxism, and the same way that the modern world is attempting to adopt the scripture of Postmodernism as a reaction to science and economics.

    The fascinating part of all this is that the ten commandments are a pretty good system of property rights upon which you can start to build a complex civilization on individual rather than familial or tribal property rights – which were necessary for land holders, but not for migratory peoples.

    This difference in jewish and christian ethics persist today: the land holders and the traders still have different ethical principles and this manifests itself in our voting for different parties with different moral codes.

    https://www.quora.com/Where-do-atheists-believe-the-Bible-came-from

  • What Is Capitalism’s Fundamental Flaw?

    CAPITALISM DOESN’T HAVE A FLAW – IT’S INSUFFICIENT

    It’s a necessary tool for cooperating in a vast division of labor. Humans are not all that meritocratic by nature, and don’t like lotteries.  And capitalism is a necessary, meritocratic, lottery.

    It isn’t just. It isn’t fair. It’s just necessary.  So how do you take what’s necessary and then on top of it, make it somewhat just and somewhat fair?   That’s what we’re always trying to do. It’s just that government as we currently know it, isn’t a very good way of doing that.

    There is a very big difference between fair and desirable.

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-capitalisms-fundamental-flaw

  • How Does Coca-cola Pass National Food Agencies If They Don’t Reveal The Ingredients?

    The ingredients are actually known, and available on the internet.  Water, sugar, salt, and eight or nine oils in very small quantities.  The countries that ban it do it to reject cultural influence, not because of ingredients.  In Coca Cola, the caffeine (unless something has changed) still comes from the Kola nut itself.  And the government has given exclusive rights to the company to use extracts of coca leaves – which is why no one can replicate the flavor.  The rest of the flavors are natural.  And there is a whole lot of science that the company can call on if someone wants to criticize it for some reason.  It’s fine as you don’t live on it. It’s better if you get the stuff made with sugar rather than corn syrup. 🙂  Much better. 🙂

    https://www.quora.com/How-does-Coca-Cola-pass-national-food-agencies-if-they-dont-reveal-the-ingredients

  • Why Is Income Redistribution Such A Problem For Republicans? Provide Data And Any Other Quantitative Evidence.

    INCOME REDISTRIBUTION IS A PROBLEM FOR EVERYONE

    Otherwise we wouldn’t have a 1% movement.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-is-income-redistribution-such-a-problem-for-Republicans-Provide-data-and-any-other-quantitative-evidence

  • Where Do Atheists Believe The Bible Came From?

    GOOD ANSWERS HERE, SO I’LL ADD ONE POINT OTHERS SEEM TO MISS

    It is a collection of children’s and campfire stories from an era of profound poverty, ignorance and violence, and most of the new testament was an attempt to rebel against the roman empire the same way that the primitive world attempted to adopt the scripture of Marxism, and the same way that the modern world is attempting to adopt the scripture of Postmodernism as a reaction to science and economics.

    The fascinating part of all this is that the ten commandments are a pretty good system of property rights upon which you can start to build a complex civilization on individual rather than familial or tribal property rights – which were necessary for land holders, but not for migratory peoples.

    This difference in jewish and christian ethics persist today: the land holders and the traders still have different ethical principles and this manifests itself in our voting for different parties with different moral codes.

    https://www.quora.com/Where-do-atheists-believe-the-Bible-came-from

  • Propertarian Analysis Is The Analysis Of Spectra, Not Of Nouns – We Did Learn Something From Supply vs Demand Curves. 🙂

    (From FB)

    Curt, what is your opinion about the relation between knowledge and information?

    Francesco, I am very skeptical of these definitions. For example, 1) Deduction, Induction and Abduction all describe the process of deduction but with decreasingly available information. 2) Knowledge, Information, Data, and Phenomena, likewise describe only our decreasing confidence in any theory’s or set of theories’ correspondence with the tools of observation available to us. The 3) correspondence between theory and Information that is necessary for personal action, that which is necessary for political action (coercion), and that which meets the standard of logical truth, is likewise a spectrum. And I see any point on those spectra as semi arbitrary unless applicable to a given question. And I see arguments to ‘truth’ often illogical in application for this reason, due to the methodological vanity of the speaker. But I am working hard right now to solve this problem, so that I can pull libertarian theory out of the french rationalism that Rothbard buried it in, into the anglo empirical from whence it came.