Curt Doolittle

Form: Short Note

  • Position on Marriage?  It’s a Contract.

    [M]y position is that the state has no place in private contracts, and that a marriage is a private contract.

    My concern is that the nation produce laws for individuals and policy for families and this may further reduce the policy bias toward the family as a unit of production and reproduction, and increasingly toward the consumption (hedonism) of individuals – dysgenia.

    A marriage creates a corporation in which shareholders pool assets, and it conveys limited power of attorney, to both (or more) shareholders to act on behalf of the other. If prenuptial agreements are adhered to rigidly, and there is no child support or spousal support then I am happy with it.

    So my suggestion is to take the Alabama strategy and remove the state from marriage agreements, and let people engage in whatever relations they want.

    So I am against state marriage en toto, and fully supportive of any voluntary contract that people wish to enter into. I would be comfortable with polygamy/polyamory evolving. But when I say I believe these things, it’s in the context of freedom of association and disassociation. So if you don’t want to serve polygamists, you don’t have to.

  • Position on Marriage?  It’s a Contract.

    [M]y position is that the state has no place in private contracts, and that a marriage is a private contract.

    My concern is that the nation produce laws for individuals and policy for families and this may further reduce the policy bias toward the family as a unit of production and reproduction, and increasingly toward the consumption (hedonism) of individuals – dysgenia.

    A marriage creates a corporation in which shareholders pool assets, and it conveys limited power of attorney, to both (or more) shareholders to act on behalf of the other. If prenuptial agreements are adhered to rigidly, and there is no child support or spousal support then I am happy with it.

    So my suggestion is to take the Alabama strategy and remove the state from marriage agreements, and let people engage in whatever relations they want.

    So I am against state marriage en toto, and fully supportive of any voluntary contract that people wish to enter into. I would be comfortable with polygamy/polyamory evolving. But when I say I believe these things, it’s in the context of freedom of association and disassociation. So if you don’t want to serve polygamists, you don’t have to.

  • Roman. Thank you for everything you do. As a business partner. As an Editor and

    Roman. Thank you for everything you do. As a business partner. As an Editor and Advisor. As my friend. Thank you man.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-16 15:04:00 UTC

  • STANGELOOP NRx AND YARVIN Here is how it makes sense. if you want to object to a

    STANGELOOP NRx AND YARVIN

    Here is how it makes sense. if you want to object to a speaker, then gather a petition of not less than 5% of the registered attendees. If you gather that petition, then the speaker AND the signatories are disinvited.

    This stops shenanigans.

    NOTE: I am in favor of violence against gossipers. I mean, Steve Klabnik (the lefty who complained vociferously) advocates use of violence against his opponents. If you have an argument then put one forward. If you want to use gossip, rallying and shaming, then that is not an argument. My agreement to forgo violence is predicated on your limiting yourself to truthful, rational, scientific, argument. If you violate that agreement then I am no longer bound by an agreement to cooperate. And we can have a duel. And if you refuse the duel, then I will just rectify the situation.

    Do you see now why libel, slander, and duel were so important to western development?

    Do you see why gossip, pseudo-morality, pseudo-rationalism, propaganda, and pseudoscience were so effectively used against the west?

    I do.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-16 12:51:00 UTC

  • Francesco Principi I hope I get to see you again in the next few years. -Hugs ma

    Francesco Principi I hope I get to see you again in the next few years. -Hugs man.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-16 12:32:00 UTC

  • You know, if I were an academic, employed by the Academy (Cathedral) I couldn’t

    You know, if I were an academic, employed by the Academy (Cathedral) I couldn’t Troll Russians on Russian propaganda sites during lunchtime. And that alone is enough incentive to work outside of the Academy. 🙂

    I know so many professors who are closet nerds with the personal interests of 14 year olds. And they can’t exercise their intersets in public. Thankfully I can. 🙂

    ——-SNIP—–

    Trolling you clowns is too easy. I have the whole office rolling in laughter. But, it’s sort of like making fun of kids on the short bus. I mean, to be Russian is enough of a handicap. I suppose I shouldn’t make fun of the mentally defective. I have Youtube for that. Oh. Wait. Those retarded goons, whores, room temperature IQ drivers, and alcoholics on youtube are Russian too, aren’t they?

    Oh well. Sigh.

    I suppose being the white people who failed qualifies you for being the world’s clowns.

    Because that’s all you are.

    🙂

    ——-

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-16 07:29:00 UTC

  • LEARNING FROM FAILURE I emailed Jonathan Haidt a question this morning, and thin

    LEARNING FROM FAILURE

    I emailed Jonathan Haidt a question this morning, and think I just answered it myself: it’s not so much that he can change our political system, or even hopes to (although I assume he does) but that the dysfunctionality of the political system provides good data for his research into moral foundations. Sort of how I use libertarians and socialists: the fact that they’re so wrong about everything allows us to determine what is right. Or how neurologists study the brain by studying those with defective brains. It’s very hard to learn much from normalcy. (as Nassim Taleb is trying to tell us). It’s only useful to learn from error. As Popper has been trying to tell us. We don’t tell the truth, but instead, give warranty that we do not speak falsely. And that is what I am trying to say.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-16 01:42:00 UTC

  • COLT – MY HERO I have no idea how many times I read his biography between fourth

    http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=16171615961&searchurl=tn%3Dstory+Colt%27s+revolverSAMUEL COLT – MY HERO

    I have no idea how many times I read his biography between fourth and eighth grades. Many. At least once a year. But my entrepreneurialism and determination were inspired by his example.

    We are formed by strange events. Someone, somewhere, bought that book for the school library. Somehow I came across it looking for something interesting to read. And much of my business career is the product of those two accidents.

    Life is fascinating. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-15 23:19:00 UTC

  • Why Doesn’t Christianity Always Work Everywhere?

    [W]ell it does really. You can see that everywhere it’s adopted. You will get a better economy. Period. When Christians leave, the economy will get worse. Period. But incentives are incentives are incentives. So non-european countries have serious impediments to high trust.

    1) Authoritarian political orders evolved from dispute resolution such as the irrigation areas of Egypt, Mesopotamia and China. 2) Lack of advanced economies promoting ‘everyone is a customer’ – often in the same places. 4) Diversity and competition too great to overcome. (Levant, Central Asia, Arabia.) 3) Inbreeding and tribal marriage inhibit development of ‘everyone a potential mate, and everyone a potential customer’. 5) Genetic predisposition that evolved under higher selection pressures (group selection rather than individual selection via mating). (h/t paul)

    Source: (2) Curt Doolittle

  • UKRAINE WORD. It’s interesting how concerned Ukrainians are about keeping their

    UKRAINE WORD.

    It’s interesting how concerned Ukrainians are about keeping their word.

    It’s a beautiful thing.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-15 07:22:00 UTC