Curt Doolittle

Theme: Coercion

  • Natural Law Is An Attempt By The Weak Church To Obscure The Fact That The Source Of Property Is Violence.

    [W]e are each born with a capacity for violence. Some more. Some less. During our lives we develop that capacity. Some more some less. Prior to the institution of property, this violence is one of our forms of wealth. We trade our wealth of violence in exchange for the institution of property. If our property is taken from us then we no longer need exchange our wealth in violence for it. And we may now use our wealth of violence for other purposes. We pay for property with our wealth in violence. The source of all property is violence. Natural law is a convenient construct of the church in order to obscure the inconvenient truth that the source of property is the application of violence. Understood correctly, this means that natural law is an attempt at redistribution: to obtain the expensive right of property at a dramatic discount. As such. Arguments to natural law are acts of fraud. The source of property is violence. – Curt Doolittle ( libertarians have fun trying to get out of that box. ).

  • Response to A Criticism of Libertarianism by “Dave” at “Cydoniansignal”

    In response to : http://cydoniansignal.com/2013/12/03/libertariancritiqu/ I can’t respond to all criticisms of libertarianism (there actually aren’t that many). But if I can use them to illustrate something or other I do. Most of the time, the criticisms are from those who lack the knowledge to render the criticism that they levy. There exist legitimate criticisms of libertarianism, and I list a few of them in this response, but rarely are they mentioned.

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  • HOPPE: DEMOCRACY IS THE SLOW ROAD TO COMMUNISM

    HOPPE: DEMOCRACY IS THE SLOW ROAD TO COMMUNISM

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-02 18:00:00 UTC

  • THE PURPOSE OF GOVERNMENT The purpose of good government is to deny people acces

    THE PURPOSE OF GOVERNMENT

    The purpose of good government is to deny people access to power. To deny people access to violence. To deny people access to fraud. To deny people access to theft. To deny people the ability to abuse ‘norms’. The best government denies people all possible means of pursuing self interest except through the service of each other in the market.

    Now, it is true that there are efforts that are relatively difficult to impossible to undertake without the structure of government, because the privatization of contribution to the commons must be prohibited in all forms of contract. And unlike entirely private goods and private contracts, it is possible to privatize (cheat) from from the public contributions to the commons. But this again, is a negative. Individuals do not need government to conduct these investments. They only need a forum for creating public contracts that bar all members of the citizenry from privatization (theft) of the commons being created by the investment.

    In the end analysis, this means, that the problem of government is the creation of law, and the use of buraucracy rather than contract and private services. Contracts have terms. They expire. They can be fulfilled. They cannot be modified at will by later legislatures. Private firms must survive competition. THey can die off. They cannot become a parasite on investors (the public.)

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-01 03:44:00 UTC

  • What Are “positive Rights”?

    I’ve been asked to comment on this topic.   I don’t think I can add much to what has been said here. But I will try to add some precision:

    A right is a thing that all people can grant to each other. Otherwise the term has no meaning.  We cannot grant each other positives. We lack the resources to grant resources to others.  We can however, equally forgo opportunities for satisfying our self interest.  In effect, we can all suffer deprivations of opportunity even if we cannot suffer the transfer of resources (money).

    But for clarity: We cannot make laws either.  Laws emerge.  We can only issue orders.  We grant orders legitimacy by calling them analogies to laws. Legislatures issue orders.  Laws emerge from observation of human actions. We cannot make laws, only recognize them.

    Likewise, we cannot make positive rights.  We can only make redistributive commitments – forcible transfer from one group to another.  We grant these goals legitimacy by calling them analogies to rights.

    But neither commands nor redistributions are what they claim to be by analogy.  They are what they are, and can be nothing else: commands and thefts.

    The rest is just gilding a sin in flowery language.

    https://www.quora.com/What-are-positive-rights

  • I love honest liberals. They tend to be the sentimental ones. It’s the intellect

    I love honest liberals.

    They tend to be the sentimental ones.

    It’s the intellectuals who are dishonest.

    And they have to be. Fundamentally leftism is kleptocratic. It’s thievery.

    But it’s pretty hard to chastise civil people who simply want to take care of everyone.

    I just don’t want them to empower their intellectuals. Who are, in a word, crooks.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-09-24 22:43:00 UTC

  • ” … the most improper job of any man, even saints … is bossing other men. No

    ” … the most improper job of any man, even saints … is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity”

    – JRR to Christopher Tolkein

    (Thanks to Skye Stewart for the longer quote.)

    Source date (UTC): 2012-09-24 21:21:00 UTC

  • ON WAR AS ORGANIZED MURDER (A post from elsewhere) It may be true that war is or

    ON WAR AS ORGANIZED MURDER

    (A post from elsewhere)

    It may be true that war is organized murder, But that moral statement must be balanced by the practical recognition that those who are unwilling to engage in war, unprepared for it, and unskilled in it, will rapidly become the subjects of those who are willing, prepared, and skilled at conducting it.

    Certainly the neocon mission has been a failure in muslim lands, for the sole reason that exacting punishment for not controlling one’s citizens is different from the absurd attempt at social conversion of paternalistic tribalism to something like democracy and consumer capitalism.

    Certainly the intervention in Serbia was a mistake. Wars can be waged by urgent violence, tactical trade policy, ideological conversion, and sustained immigration. To limit the appropriation of a people’s life and property to that of violence is a bit of arbitrary and dishonest rhetorical trickery. Conquest by immigration is just as viable as conquest by force. The only difference is the time frame.

    Certainly the US intervention into WW! was a mistake, as was our intervention in the european theater in ww2. The cultural core of Europe was Germany and we broke her will. And along with that will, the long term viability of the high-trust society that is unique to protestant germanic lands and the secret of Germanic resistance to corruption. The rest of Europe is just a cultural province by comparison. And teh german criticism of petty consumerism of anglo society has proven as true as they predicted. It will be two or three generations before she regains her will to act as the core cultural state of western civilization. (Others think it will not recover but I’m less skeptical)

    But I don’t think our interventions that stopped the spread of communism were mistakes. I don’t think McArthur’s desire to topple communist china was a mistake. It would have saved millions of lives, and prevented the upcoming confrontation we will all be faced with.

    And most of all, I don’t respect european pacifism paid for with american blood and treasure. Nor social programs that are subsidized by Americans who pay for European defense, and most importantly, subsidy of stable energy prices. Nor do I respect American pacifism that is mere financial and personal convenience masquerading as conviction.

    There is a vast difference between war, nation building, police action, and empire building. Only war is necessary. Nation building, police action and empire building are just thefts by way of murder.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-09-23 14:08:00 UTC

  • CREATE GREATER DISPARITIES IN RACIAL INCARCERATION? This is one of those things

    http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/prison.htmLIBERALS CREATE GREATER DISPARITIES IN RACIAL INCARCERATION?

    This is one of those things that just would annoy my friends in Ottawa. 🙂

    La Griffe Du Lion is always priceless.

    His Smart Fraction theory alone would be worth reading his work. THe fact that he’s hysterically good using modern socratic characters only makes it more enjoyable.

    Thanks Ashtad for the pointer.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-09-08 22:03:00 UTC

  • THE DEMAND CURVE FOR COCAINE Thanks to the irrepressible Robert Murphy. A humoro

    THE DEMAND CURVE FOR COCAINE

    Thanks to the irrepressible Robert Murphy.

    A humorous way to teach a basic idea: prohibition increases price and demand, and by means of artificial scarcity, distributes vast amounts of money to producers of banned substances. One of the best ways to make money is to provide something that people want, and are willing to pay for, but it subject to extraordinary tariffs.

    Oh, to be a pirate on the seas. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2012-09-08 21:58:00 UTC