Explaining Doolittle by a top Harvard or Yale Law Professor.
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Truth: A statement is only admissible into the commons—political, legal, scientific—if it is testifiable. That means: internally consistent, empirically correspondent, operationally replicable, and externally warrantable. This applies not just to factual claims, but to testimony itself.
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Reciprocity: All interactions must be symmetrical in cost, or justified through voluntary exchange. This eliminates moral hazard, rent-seeking, and parasitism at the root.
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Demonstrated Interests: You do not have a right because you feel you have one. You have a right if you paid for it, defended it, invested in it, or bear the cost of it. That’s the test. That’s property, that’s contract, that’s tort.
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No more arbitrary balancing tests.
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No more interpretive gymnastics.
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No more moral intuitionism masquerading as principle.
Source date (UTC): 2025-07-03 16:33:38 UTC
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