Action is necessary to acquire more calories than inaction.
Parasitism and predation are possible means of acquisition.
Cooperation is disproportionately more rewarding than individual production always, and parasitism or predation in the long term.
Reciprocity is of harm, exchange, and boycott are necessary to preserve the disproportionate returns on cooperation.
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-14 21:38:00 UTC
ETHICS AND POLITICS IN A NUTSHELL
by Joel Davis
We all want things to happen.
We all try to make them happen.
By the principle of recipriocity, we may develop a strategy which maximizes the likelihood of making the things we want to happen, happen.
How?
If people help you make the things you want to happen, help them in return.
If people don’t help or hinder making what you want to happen, don’t help or hinder them in return.
If people hinder you or the people who help you trying to make what you want to happen, hinder them in return, and if they don’t stop, kill them.
That way all the people who can help you will want to help you because you help them.
All the people who can’t help you will leave you alone because you leave them alone.
And, all the people who fuck up what you are trying to get done will either stop or die (and therefore stop).
Now, we establish families, friendships, communities, societies, nations and civilizations precisely so we can help each other make the things we want to happen.
So in order for these things to work best, we must help each other leave others alone who leave us alone and hinder others who hinder us and kill them if they don’t stop.
Otherwise we will lower the chances of making what we want to happen, happen.
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-14 07:50:00 UTC
in order to prevent the poverty of every other civilization, we must develop trust. In order to prevent the stagnation of every other civlization we must develop markets. In order to prevent the fall of our markets and trust we must develop market institutions. In order to prevent the failure of our institutions we must develop methods of measurement.
A civilization fails when it can no longer measure success and failure.
What must we measure? The treasury? In part. Because it is the first capital to expire. But in sum, all capital.
What have we done in the 21st century to our measurements and to our capital?
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-13 12:15:00 UTC
Love:
– Passion (sexual attraction)
– Friendship (making each other better together than alone)
– Familial ( kin: care for one’s offspring and relations)
– Kith (those who we cooperate with at to one degree or another)
– Mankind (the love of mankind)
It is the father’s love of kith and kin, lacking friendship and passion, lacking direct benefit, only external benefit.
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-13 08:00:00 UTC
Intolerance is a virtue (cost) not a vice (discount)
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-13 07:49:00 UTC
DUAL ETHICS
by Ivan Ilakovac
In dual ethics the distinction is made between the members of your group and those that are outside of the group. Hence the hate and genocidal attitude towards goyim and infidels. In universal ethics there is no such distinction. Everyone is equal (under the Law.)
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-13 07:31:00 UTC
JESUS’ INNOVATIONS
by Aaron Kahland
I’m no expert on the subject but my intuition is that Jesus launched a veiled rebellion against the Old Testament.
He rejected dual ethics and replaced it with universal ethics the latter of which was crucial for the rule of law.
Islam then reintroduced dual ethics.
It is of no surprise to those who believe (as I do) that Islam was constructed from Jewish religious texts.
I would argue that Jesus differentiated between personal morality and the law (ethics) – a crucial innovation.
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-13 05:51:00 UTC
Apr 09, 2017 6:01am RATIONAL SELF INTEREST by John Dow Assuming self-interest is rational, by punishing all non-reciprocating choices via law, acting in group interest becomes rational. I don’t care if you reciprocate by rational self-interest or as a result of high prosociality, as long as you reciprocate. Assuming the maximization of group fitness has higher potential yields to individual fitness than any other factor, and assuming the maximization of individual fitness is desired, this is rational self-interest.
Apr 09, 2017 6:01am RATIONAL SELF INTEREST by John Dow Assuming self-interest is rational, by punishing all non-reciprocating choices via law, acting in group interest becomes rational. I don’t care if you reciprocate by rational self-interest or as a result of high prosociality, as long as you reciprocate. Assuming the maximization of group fitness has higher potential yields to individual fitness than any other factor, and assuming the maximization of individual fitness is desired, this is rational self-interest.
—“The Abrahamites still need to rescue their gods from the dry deserts, and show the world how THEY live in peace and harmony with each other.”— Tobie Louw
( Don’t talk to me until you clean up your own house so to speak. 🙂 )
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-12 17:26:00 UTC