Curt Doolittle

Theme: Externalities

  • Under Propertarianism, Operationalism Prevents Exporting “Harm” (Costs)

    —“[A]ll arguments put into the marketplace of ideas function as conceptual goods – products for our use. Now since we are producing goods we do have the ability if not the necessity to provide consumer protection. This is all that operationalism does for us. It doesnt say you’re doing good (telling the truth) it tests whether or not you are doing HARM. It makes sure that you’re not using verbalisms. Under Propertarianism we require you warranty your goods and services. And those warranties are subject to legal enforcement by universal standing where the loser pays.”—-

  • SOMETHING MAY BE USEFUL BUT IT MAY NOT BE TRUE Many utilitarian concepts are con

    SOMETHING MAY BE USEFUL BUT IT MAY NOT BE TRUE

    Many utilitarian concepts are convenient, but not true. Most untrue things produce negative externalities. Most negative externalities cause others harm. Small things in large numbers produce vast consequences.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-04 16:35:00 UTC

  • Just Because It's Useful Doesn't Mean It's True

    [M]any utilitarian concepts are convenient, but not true. Most untrue things produce negative externalities. Most negative externalities cause others harm. Small things in large numbers produce vast consequences.

  • Just Because It’s Useful Doesn’t Mean It’s True

    [M]any utilitarian concepts are convenient, but not true. Most untrue things produce negative externalities. Most negative externalities cause others harm. Small things in large numbers produce vast consequences.

  • Just Because It's Useful Doesn't Mean It's True

    [M]any utilitarian concepts are convenient, but not true. Most untrue things produce negative externalities. Most negative externalities cause others harm. Small things in large numbers produce vast consequences.

  • Just Because It’s Useful Doesn’t Mean It’s True

    [M]any utilitarian concepts are convenient, but not true. Most untrue things produce negative externalities. Most negative externalities cause others harm. Small things in large numbers produce vast consequences.

  • Utility Does Not Sanction Immorality

    [M]any immoral things are convenient. The reason we refrain from them despite their convenience, is that when we agree to cooperate with others, we agree to avoid exporting costs onto them as individuals, and we agree not to pollute the commons and therefore export costs onto them as a group. There is no difference between polluting a stream, and composing and publishing a theory in non-operational (particularly experiential) language. Both are immoral.

  • Utility Does Not Sanction Immorality

    [M]any immoral things are convenient. The reason we refrain from them despite their convenience, is that when we agree to cooperate with others, we agree to avoid exporting costs onto them as individuals, and we agree not to pollute the commons and therefore export costs onto them as a group. There is no difference between polluting a stream, and composing and publishing a theory in non-operational (particularly experiential) language. Both are immoral.

  • WHAT LIBERTARIANS HAVE RIGHT AND WRONG WHAT WE HAVE RIGHT 1) Property + Voluntar

    WHAT LIBERTARIANS HAVE RIGHT AND WRONG

    WHAT WE HAVE RIGHT

    1) Property + Voluntary, fully informed, warrantied, exchange, free of negative externality.

    2) Contract + Common Law + Universal Standing

    3) Competing Insurance Companies for the purpose of Regulation.

    4) Economics: Voluntary organization of Production + Incentives + Competition

    WHAT CONSERVATIVES HAVE RIGHT (AND WE HAVE WRONG)

    1) Morality (‘Durkheimian Man’) requires many institutional means of coercion into respect for, and observation of, and enforcement of, property rights.

    2) The Nuclear and Absolute Nuclear Family as the minimum organizational unit of any social order.

    WHAT THE PROGRESSIVES HAVE RIGHT (AND WE HAVE WRONG)

    1) Observance and enforcement of the property rights necessary for the voluntary organization of production, when one is not ABLE to participate in it, requires compensation for the effort of observance and enforcement. (Although they would never articulate it in this manner. The right of exclusion must be respected, but respecting it is a cost.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-27 09:34:00 UTC

  • PRIVILEGE: TAX THE HELL OUT OF WORKING CHILDLESS WOMEN They are experiencing the

    PRIVILEGE: TAX THE HELL OUT OF WORKING CHILDLESS WOMEN

    They are experiencing the greatest luxury, greatest conspicuous consumption, at the greatest social expense.

    —“Japan has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world, with each woman bearing an average of 1.4 children. At that rate, demographers project a plunge from 127 million people today to 87 million by 2060, sapping the workforce of its vital young workers and putting an enormous strain on state finances. The shrinkage has already begun. In 2013, Japan’s population declined by a record-breaking 244,000 people. All of which has led to some rather creative policy proposals from the Chamber of Commerce, such as retaining 70-year-old’s in the workforce, doubling government expenditures on childcare and encouraging men to ask working women out on a date.”—

    Furthermore, keeping 70 year olds in the work force is an excellent idea. Adding 14 year olds to the work force is a better idea. Growth from demographic expansion is a bad idea. Collapse from demographic contraction is a very, very bad idea.

    No one gets a free ride.

    Tax the hell out of working single women.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-18 04:52:00 UTC