Curt Doolittle

Theme: Coercion

  • Americans do not have a gun problem. They have guns because they have a race pro

    Americans do not have a gun problem. They have guns because they have a race problem.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-07 14:22:45 UTC

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  • A CONVICTION, A THREAT, A PROMISE. —“I am not concerned with should, I am conc

    A CONVICTION, A THREAT, A PROMISE.

    —“I am not concerned with should, I am concerned with shall. Not in persuasion but compliance. Not in compromise but in defeat. Not in tolerance but in deportation. And should deportation fail, in hanging, impaling, crosses and pyres – from the merely utilitarian to the most dramatic. There is a vast difference between convenience and conviction, between discount and premium. Between action and excuse for inaction. Should’s, requests, demands, are a convenience by which to obscure a discount, by justifying inaction – and creating a theft from one’s ancestors, ones peers and all generations that might follow. And so there is plenty rope and pyre for such lairs, cheaters, and thieves as well. Act, or perish at the hands of those who do.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-07 14:22:00 UTC

  • “Justice was not, is not, and will not be”—(Macâh). I am not so pessimistic. T

    —“Justice was not, is not, and will not be”—(Macâh).

    I am not so pessimistic. Too much evidence to the contrary. Moral men make moral justice. Immoral men fail to. The problem is in making moral men. And what I have learned this year, is that it is not so much a problem of making moral men, as in eliminating and preventing immoral men from existing.

    So far, hanging appears to work best.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-07 14:00:00 UTC

  • MORALITY VS LIBERTY MORALITY: non-imposition of involuntary costs upon other ind

    MORALITY VS LIBERTY

    MORALITY: non-imposition of involuntary costs upon other individuals with whom you agree to cooperate.

    LIBERTY: non-imposition of involuntary costs upon individuals by members of governments in the construction of commons.

    HEROISM: voluntary contribution to the commons in exchange for honor (self assessment of status), and status.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-07 13:30:00 UTC

  • “The way to legally prohibit anything remains constant. Either one applies viole

    –“The way to legally prohibit anything remains constant. Either one applies violence like a man, or one merely gossips like a woman.”–

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-07 11:51:00 UTC

  • The only moral ‘good’ is prohibitive: refraining from the imposition of costs. A

    The only moral ‘good’ is prohibitive: refraining from the imposition of costs. All else accumulative is heroic, not moral.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-07 08:29:50 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/662909814423617536

    Reply addressees: @DIA_operative

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    @curtdoolittle I don’t make that claim, but merely that the freedom of capital to act on its own expenditure is ‘good’.

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  • So there exists a universal ethics and universal proscriptive morality: the non

    So there exists a universal ethics and universal proscriptive morality: the non imposition of involuntary costs.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-07 08:26:39 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/662909011851943937

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    @curtdoolittle If immorality is more fruitfully incentivized than morality then it’s likely men will defect, given an imperfect world.

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  • CAPITALISM AND THE SWORD Capitalism exists for the bourgeoise class only because

    CAPITALISM AND THE SWORD

    Capitalism exists for the bourgeoise class only because liberty was constructed by the martial class. Period. Violence creates property. Property creates prosperity. Prosperity makes charity possible.

    WE ARE THE FOUNDATION. ALL OF CONSEQUENCE FOLLOWS

    We either form a wall and do not break, or there is not capitalism, prosperity and charity.

    VIOLENCE IS THE FIRST WEALTH WE INVEST.

    CAPITALISM IS ONE OF THE INVESTMENTS WE CAN MAKE.

    REDISTRIBUTION IS A LUXURY WE CAN CHOOSE TO AFFORD.

    It’s time to water the tree of liberty with a little blood.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-06 09:58:00 UTC

  • ON THE FALLACY OF FREE TRADE ABSOLUTISM (very important piece) (this will ruffle

    ON THE FALLACY OF FREE TRADE ABSOLUTISM

    (very important piece) (this will ruffle some feathers)

    The three means of coercion can be used for good or ill.

    1) Violence can be used to create property rights and prosperity or it can be used to conduct parasitism predation and destruction.

    2) Gossip can be used to reward contributors to the commons with opportunity for cooperation and mates, or it can be used to lie, cheat, deceive, rally, shame, and justify parasitism, or instill violence.

    3) Trade can be used to increase prosperity for all by accumulating genetic, knowledge, physical and institutional capital, or to destroy the either the producer’s or the consumer’s economy by causing the depreciation of genetic, knowledge, physical, and institutional capital.

    Trade is no more an INTRINSIC good, than is violence or gossip.

    That is the end of it. Trade is nor more a good than violence or gossip. The only determinant of the morality or immorality of trade is whether capital is accumulated or destroyed in the process of production, distribution, trade and consumption, and whether the transfers were voluntary.

    ***This is what I call the requirement for “full accounting” in any truthful (moral) argument. Without full accounting someone is undoubtably lying. General rules expressed without limits are used as means of suggestion by which to deceive the altruistic mind. Free Trade is as much a folly as Autarky. Free Trade is yet another cosmopolitanism by which to rely on suggestion in order to conduct parasitism.***

    This argument is finished. Cosmopolitan Libertarian absolutism is finished. Libertine libertarianism is finished. It is a dead ideology. I have killed it – forever. And I have demonstrated as thoroughly as any man can, that the only possible liberty from which we obtain our prosperity is TRUTHFUL COOPERATION: The productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange of property-en-toto, free of imposition of costs by externality, wherein our statements survive tests of identity (non conflation), internal, consistency, external correspondence, existential possibility, parsimony, limits, full accounting, and voluntary exchange.

    Children require virtue ethics, because they can but imitate. The young require rule ethics because they lack experience. The adult requires outcome ethics because otherwise he can use rules to obscure his frauds. Any ethical claim must hold to all THREE forms of ethic:

    a) virtue: should every man do this, the outcome would be moral

    b) rule: should every man obey this rule, the outcome would be moral.

    c) outcome: should every man do this, the outcome would be moral.

    It is not that one ethical method supersedes any other. It is that we can only expect the child to imitate, the young to obey rules, and the old to obey experience. As such we tolerate greater error from the child, than the young, and least from the experienced. It is not that any ethical method produces greater results. It is that each method requires making full use of the knowledge that each actor possesses, and that as long as he acts according to those principles, that we forgive him for his failures.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kyiv, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-06 09:30:00 UTC

  • I AM HAPPY WITH SPECIALIZATION RATHER THAN EQUALITY So in propertarianism I see

    I AM HAPPY WITH SPECIALIZATION RATHER THAN EQUALITY

    So in propertarianism I see three coercive technologies, and three classes mastering them. I am perfectly happy mastering my class’s technology (violence: law and war, and to a lesser degree remuneration: production distribution and trade, and to a lesser degree gossip/morality.). But if I had my ‘druthers’ I would master only law and war, and let better men master remuneration and gossip.

    We ask too much of men under equality. It is hard enough to specialize in one thing. Why must we master three? If we cooperate we need not. And that would make most of us much happier. Men love to be in their role and respected for it. The common man care less about our position than success in that position.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-06 06:58:00 UTC