HAIDT ON MORALITY
–“Moral systems are interlocking sets of values, virtues, norms, practices, identities, institutions, technologies, and evolved psychological mechanisms that work together to suppress or regulate self-interest and make cooperative societies possible.”–
Haidt, Jonathan. The Righteous Mind.
We can say that in propertarian terms. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2014-04-22 15:33:00 UTC
BRIBERY
OMG we just got rousted for a $400 bribe by Ukrainian border staff.
So we leave the land of government morons where we pay an idiot tax (uk) to arrive in the land of government criminals where we pay a corruption tax (ua).
I hate the state.
Source date (UTC): 2014-04-22 11:40:00 UTC
ARBITRARY RULES AND REGULATIONS AS ASSERTIONS OF POWER
I had forgotten the British fascination and obsession with meaningless rules as expressions of proletarian power. Idiots take pride in enforcement of rules.
At least in the states, we still know that rules are guidelines to prevent undesirable consequences.
It is your moral and civic duty to undermine frivolous rules and regulations.
American TSA staff are demonstrably morons. British equivalents are demonstrably morons.
The difference is that American TSA morons know that they’re engaged in frivolous activity -and try to hide it. Their British counterparts not only are oblivious to the fact that they’re engaged in frivolous activity- the idiots are actually proud of it. They positively beam about it.
Source date (UTC): 2014-04-22 10:46:00 UTC
They may not be pretty, but I love my gene pool anyway.
I love this country.
Source date (UTC): 2014-04-22 03:57:00 UTC
REFORMING LIBERTARIANISM: IT’S PRETTY SIMPLE REALLY
—“I think it’s pretty simple: the NAP has proven to be demonstrably insufficient to use as the basis of the common law, because it preserves and licenses immoral and unethical behavior, which impose high transaction costs on in-group members. As such, no such polity is possible, and that is evidenced by the fact that no such polity has ever existed. … Rothbard’s ethics license parasitism, and the high trust society that created liberty requires contribution to production. It’s not complicated. Rothbard was wrong. Its impossible to form a polity on rothbardian ethics. Period.”–
In-group ethics necessary for the formation of a voluntary polity require the standard of moral action be based upon a requirement for contribution, which mirrors the human moral instincts for cooperation.
if you want an involuntary polity then you can choose any property rights (or lack of) that you want.
If you want a high trust polity that organizes voluntarily, and in which production is voluntarily organized, then you must find an institutional means of resolving ethical and moral conflicts as well as criminal conflicts.
The only institution that we have yet developed that is capable of providing dispute resolution without the presence of a central authority is independent courts under the common law, with articulated property rights.
If property is well defined such that it mirrors ethical and moral prohibitions on free riding in all its forms, all that remains is the voluntary, fully informed, warrantied, productive voluntary exchange free of negative externalities.
You may choose a less moral and ethical society. And I am not sure at what point all humans will demand the state, or a sufficient number to form a voluntary polity will prefer anarchy, but I do know that regardless of that point of inflection, this is the means by which to achieve it that we know of.
Cheers. 😉
Source date (UTC): 2014-04-20 18:08:00 UTC
–“I am a Popperian falliblist and critical rationalist — by making only forever fallible and likely wrong conjectures and theories I avoid making truth claims which carry burdens of proof/demonstration.”– Frank Lovell.
Conversely, as a Moral Realist, if one makes truth claims, one carries the burden of demonstration.
And, unfortunately, language is a terribly convenient tool for engaging in both deception and self deception. So to prohibit deception as well as self-deception, we must rely on a demonstration of knowledge of construction of terms, not just a knowledge of the use of terms. Just as we must rely upon the demonstration of internal consistency using logic, and external correspondence using tests.
This means that if you make a truth claim using platonic language, you are not demonstrating knowledge of construction.
And therefore is it is not possible to make truth claims under platonism.
You are claiming truth which you cannot demonstrate the knowledge to claim.
Which is unethical.
Source date (UTC): 2014-04-20 17:28:00 UTC
REPOSITIONING HOPPE
1) “The failures of Praxeology, Rothbardian Ethics, and Argumentation to withstand rational and scientific criticism do not diminish Hoppe’s solutions to the problems of democracy, monopoly bureaucracy, and the private production of public goods.”
Cheers.
Source date (UTC): 2014-04-20 11:47:00 UTC
REPOSITIONING ROTHBARD
1) “Rothbard was a great historian but a terrible philosopher.”
2) “Property evolved first as a means of preventing free riding, second as a means of inheritance, and only last as a necessary institution for the division of knowledge and labor..”
3) “We can still use the NAP, but we must redefine property such that it reflects human moral instincts: as an ongoing preventino of free riding by every creative means that come up with”
(More to come)
Source date (UTC): 2014-04-20 11:36:00 UTC
(HINDU WEDDING AT THE HOTEL)
Formal dress. Elaborate Saris. The women look devastatingly beautiful. Everyone is happy. The men are charming. It’s awesome.
Source date (UTC): 2014-04-20 10:58:00 UTC
KIDNAPPING A CHOCOLATE EASTER BUNNY
The hotel has a large chocolate bunny on the desk. And I have been contemplating kidnapping it for the past three days, and leaving a ransom note for 100 yellow marshmallow ‘chicks’; stating that if my demands are not met by dinner on Easter, said bunny will be subject to rapid digestion. Without mercy. And in the most aggressive manner.
When I threatened the desk staff with my plan, they laughed and did not take me seriously.
The bunny stands there taunting me.
Source date (UTC): 2014-04-20 07:14:00 UTC