Curt Doolittle

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  • can I learn propertarianism? (ie:without reading 3000 posts on propertarianism.c

    https://propertarianism.com/basic-concepts/How can I learn propertarianism?

    (ie:without reading 3000 posts on propertarianism.com)

    SHORT VERSION: GO TO THIS PAGE

    https://propertarianism.com/basic-concepts/

    Scroll down to “How Can I Learn Propertarianism (Natural Law)?”

    You’ll see a bulleted list of the basic things to do.

    LONG VERSION

    It depends on what background you’re coming from.

    I’d suggest talking with one of these guys;

    Bill Joslin, Moritz Bierling, William Butchman, Josh Jeppson

    They seem to give me quite a bit of feedback on it. And they each look at it differently.

    But if you can’t get what you want from one of them, there are about 20 other guys I can easily roll of the top of my head who can maybe help you bridge the gap.

    It’s not terribly easy. Gotta be honest.

    We’re going to try to make it easier.

    But for ‘early adopters’ we don’t have the documentation complete so to speak. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-09 22:18:00 UTC

  • Too much Ghost Vagina Syndrome on the left these days

    Too much Ghost Vagina Syndrome on the left these days.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-09 21:00:00 UTC

  • “The concept of individual property rights was constructed by the bourgeoisie/or

    —“The concept of individual property rights was constructed by the bourgeoisie/organizing-class as justification for permission from monarchs to seek opportunities (initially at the great expense of the aristocracy, and later at the expense of the commons).

    The concept of human rights was constructed (post-war) as marketing to the decolonized ‘developing world,’ as a means of seeking allies against the threat of communism.

    The problem, in both cases, is that we believe our own propaganda.”—James Augustus Berens

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-09 19:05:00 UTC

  • Interesting take: —“Property rights are for farmers and human rights are for m

    Interesting take:

    —“Property rights are for farmers and human rights are for migrants (hunters). But when it comes to advanced economies these are both reflex propositions in response to possibilities of defection and the tragedy of the commons.

    The problem we have today is past even managing the despoiling of commons. The ecosystem has become a people-system. And the main problem with this system is that people can occupy every niche but they don’t eat each other.

    This state of affairs is unnatural/unsustainable. Because more and more effort is called for from everyone in a kind of hysteria. And there is no proper instinctual response in place.”— Brian Barr

    (CD: edited as best I could. I can’t quite decompose it. But there is something interesting implied by the failure of the information system he’s referring to.)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-09 17:23:00 UTC

  • If, in your reasoning, you do not account for costs, you are not a philosopher b

    If, in your reasoning, you do not account for costs, you are not a philosopher but a mystic at best, and a fraud at worst. Good luck finding many philosophers who survive that test. Most are frauds and the rest are mystics.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-09 10:43:00 UTC

  • ARE WE GOOD OR BAD? People are rational. Choosing to ‘be good’ is in many people

    ARE WE GOOD OR BAD?

    People are rational.

    Choosing to ‘be good’ is in many people’s interest – at least in the long term.

    But choosing to ‘be bad’ is in many other people’s interest – at least in the short term.

    The principle problem in expanding the size of the good, is that each individual who chooses to be bad has greater influence upon others’ ability to choose to be good, than each individual who chooses to be good has influence upon those who choose to be bad.

    In other words, roughly speaking, every person at the bottom is six times as costly as the benefits created by every person at the top. For the simple reason that discouragement, gossip, threat and failure spread fear of risk faster and farther than encouragement, compliment, opportunity and success.

    There is nothing to be done about human nature.

    All we can do is make it very difficult to be bad.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-09 10:40:00 UTC

  • People are rational. Choosing to ‘be good’ is in many people’s interest – at lea

    People are rational.

    Choosing to ‘be good’ is in many people’s interest – at least in the long term.

    But choosing to ‘be bad’ is in many other people’s interest – at least in the short term.

    The principle problem in expanding the size of the good, is that each individual who chooses to be bad has greater influence upon others’ ability to choose to be good, than each individual who chooses to be good has influence upon those who choose to be bad.

    In other words, roughly speaking, every person at the bottom is six times as costly as the benefits created by every person at the top. For the simple reason that discouragement, gossip, threat and failure spread fear of risk faster and farther than encouragement, compliment, opportunity and success.

    There is nothing to be done about human nature.

    All we can do is make it very difficult to be bad.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-09 10:38:00 UTC

  • (sarcasm)(blue-collar practicality) Talking with a friend over coffee. “We used

    (sarcasm)(blue-collar practicality)

    Talking with a friend over coffee.

    “We used to have a gun club in school. All the people in it were ‘normal’.

    “We can’t have gun clubs with the current distribution in public schools. We need private schools for that kind of thing. Or we need to return to regimented and strict discipline of the underclasses in school. The underclasses are too much of a problem.”

    “Hmmm…. it depends on which end of the range they’re on.”

    “Doh!”

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-09 08:40:00 UTC

  • They will rally around a message at the first opportunity. I suspect we have unt

    They will rally around a message at the first opportunity. I suspect we have until March at the latest before we have to start attacking them in another wave.

    I would like it very much if that wave was ‘why do you have to lie, cheat, and steal, and claim bads are goods, instead of trade with us?’

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-09 08:33:00 UTC

  • Any man who fights with me shall be my brother

    Any man who fights with me shall be my brother.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-09 08:31:00 UTC