Curt Doolittle

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  • MORAL RELATIVITY OR OBJECTIVITY? In the presence of necessary operations we are

    MORAL RELATIVITY OR OBJECTIVITY?

    In the presence of necessary operations we are left with moral absolutism, and normative deviation from morality.

    Morality is as absolute as mathematics. Everything else is not morality but competitive strategy: contractual variations. Just as all law is as absolute as mathematics but all legislation contractual variation (or command).

    The conflation of morality with strategy, and law with command is a long-standing problem in rational philosophy.

    The law and morality are identical in content. Group Strategy and Group Contract are merely utilitarian.

    Cooperation evolved after individual survival. For cooperation to be rational it must be mutually beneficial. For it to be mutually beneficial it must be (in the aggregate) non-parasitic.

    We raise our children, demonstrate kin selection with kin, and we cooperate with non-kin, and we compete with those with whom we do not cooperate.

    So:

    Productive

    Fully informed.

    Warrantied.

    Voluntary Transfer

    Free of Negative Externality of the same criteria

    equals

    beneficial cooperation.

    Morality is an absolute. Norms are merely tactics.

    Legislation is not necessarily lawful. Norms are not necessarily moral.

    As such, we can measure whether some cultures are more moral than others, by measuring the degree of suppression of parasitism (free riding) that is suppressed by law and norm.

    So not only is morality absolute, but the relative moral content of different cultures is absolute.

    That this difference determines economic velocity, and economic velocity affords us greater morality (if we choose it) is the more interesting area of inquiry.

    Cheers

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-16 07:43:00 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

  • Sigh. –“Doctor John Dolittle is the central character of a series of children’s

    Sigh.

    –“Doctor John Dolittle is the central character of a series of children’s books by Hugh Lofting starting with the 1920 The Story of Doctor Dolittle. He is a doctor who shuns human patients in favour of animals, with whom he can speak in their own languages. He later becomes a naturalist, using his abilities to speak with animals to better understand nature and the history of the world.

    Doctor Dolittle first appeared in the author’s illustrated letters to children, written from the trenches during World War I when actual news, he later said, was either too horrible or too dull. The stories are set in early Victorian England, where Doctor John Dolittle lives in the fictional English village of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh in the West Country”–

    ( The source of many fights in grade school. )

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-16 07:14:00 UTC

  • The common good is only so good as it does not drain my family, and helps my fam

    The common good is only so good as it does not drain my family, and helps my family. My family, my clan, my tribe are my life. You may FEEL that some other common good is better, but then, that is just a preference, not a fact.

    I would rather improve the lot and reproduction rates of the more noble families than mine, than I would the reproduction rates and lot of those that are less so. That ismy preference.

    We can achieve my preference without parasitism. But we cannot achieve the progressive dream of dysgenia without parasitism.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-16 03:55:00 UTC

  • The church attacked the noble families. Democracy attacked the noble families. S

    The church attacked the noble families.

    Democracy attacked the noble families.

    Socialism attacked the middle class families.

    Feminism attacked the family.

    Dysgenia.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-16 02:45:00 UTC

  • The purpose of democracy is oppression

    The purpose of democracy is oppression.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-16 02:43:00 UTC

  • (Russian ridicule of Ukraine) I had a lot of childish fun trolling this pro-Puti

    (Russian ridicule of Ukraine)

    I had a lot of childish fun trolling this pro-Putin site today. 🙂 I am happy to admit it’s childish. I am also happy to admit that it was fun.

    —-

    What’s your point? That we shouldn’t hire foreigners? We have a government saturated with people paid off by the Kremlin. That’s why we’re engaging in lustration – to purge them and their pervasive corruption. So we are hiring foreigners to help with lustration.

    Ukraine has decided it is European. Muscovite Russia has decided it is Mongolian. We all retreat to our roots under pressure. There may be 140M Muscovites, but there are 1B+ westerners, 1B+ Chinese, 1B+ Muslims, and 1B+ Hindus. Russians cannot reform. Russians cannot build a diverse economy. Russia cannot join modernity. We understand the choice. However, we do not want to be prisoners of Russia’s bad decisions.

    Russians are foolish. They could have ruled the world. The west wanted them to. Putin was becoming the most influential man in the world. But instead of just saying ‘no democratic revolution here’ they attacked Ukraine, and broke the postwar consensus. All out of fear of spread of democracy.

    We don’t necessarily think democracy and hedonism are good things either. On the other hand, almost anything is better than ongoing Russian despotism and poverty.

    Haven’t Russians harmed eastern Europe enough for one millennium?

    =======

    Maybe, but trolling you clowns for an afternoon provided endless entertainment for the office. lol

    See your technique is a variation of critique: rallying and shaming. the counter to this strategy is to attack obvious and consistent Russian failures while ignoring your responses. Since Russia produces so many obvious and consistent failures this turns out to be easy. Each Troll’s response is an opportunity to repeat key memes. And we repeat the meme’s over and over again by merely riffing off of whatever the trolls manage to desperately say.

    Russian memes:

    – Russians are the only white people who failed.

    – Russians are poor, ignorant, rude, stupid, bovine morons.

    – Russians are alcoholics who die at an early age.

    – Russians can’t drive across a street without running over two old ladies, a mother and her child.

    – Russians can’t cross the street and use a telephone at the same time.

    – Russians are superstitious conspiracy theories who believe in electromagnetic radiation.

    – Russians are incapable of innovation, but they can copy the germans and the Americans now and then.

    – Russians are worse than the nazis and killed more people than nazis.

    – Russians are the only people to kill more of their own than the enemy.

    – Russians are incapable of self-government, let alone anyone else.

    – Russians are the lowest trust white people.

    – Russians are the most ignorant white people.

    – Russians are the most corrupt white people.

    – Russians are white people’s trailer trash.

    – Russians believe they’re Rus, rather than muscovites – it’s because their envious.

    – Russians are just Mongols who look white.

    – You can take the slut out of the village but you can’t take slut out of the girl.

    etc. the list is endless.

    The Russian strategy is to poison the informational commons (the Internet) so that even though only 50% of Russians have access to the internet, they will disregard it as chaotic, and return to state-sponsored media, rather than to learn the truth: that they live like subsaharan Africans in the opposite temperature extreme. And that they are poor only because of the corruption of their leadership, and its failure to create a diverse economy.

    The set of alliances that the kremlin must keep in competition with one another is complex and tenuous. The black market and drugs are controlled by the FSB. The Chechens are more combat effective than the Russian military. The mafia is required to keep order. And 50% of the country is dependent on oil revenues Layers of corruption are difficult to manage.

    The decisions have been made. NATO will arm the east and re-pivot against Russia. The sanctions will continue. During the next opportunity they will arm both Poland and Turkey. Ukraine will isolate the conquered Donbas region, and without federalization the rest of Ukraine will vote consistently for lustration and membership in Europe It will take ten years to clean the bureaucracy of Russians and Russian plants, but it will be done. And right sector will simply kill them if they don’t do it.

    Meanwhile we’re going to be over here laughing at the ongoing collapse of the economy.

    April was what -4.2%? An employer of 70,000 is bankrupt but the state can’t afford to let it go under? The worst that happens to Ukraine is that it’s a better investment than greece. the worst that happens to Russia is that the lowest populated country per square kilometer is incrementally cut off on all sides by peoples who justifiably hate it.

    I mean, what’s china doing? They’re already taking Siberia back. The Muslims are a few years from taking Moscow.

    Idiots. Could have run the world. Ran like little girls away from the fear of democracy.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-16 02:31:00 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

  • (I successfully avoided writing about the accounting functionality for the overs

    (I successfully avoided writing about the accounting functionality for the oversing help system all day yesterday. It was hard work. But today, I’m steeling myself for ledgers, cycles, etc. Sigh.) 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-16 01:37:00 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