Theme: Property

  • Property as A Human Behavior

    PROPERTY AS A HUMAN BEHAVIOR by Bill Joslin A demonstrated definition of property doesn’t result in a less precise criteria for deciding property. The demonstrated definition: i.e. the investment to seek a future benefit to the extent one would seek restitution or retaliation if said investment has been imposed upon, damaged or destroyed. This definition has two sides to it – the investment (which is demonstrated) and the willingness protect the investment. Another way to describe property is the term “demonstrated interests”. By this we have a clear means of calculating (not interpreting) property and a measure for imposiition. People would not be able to claim their feelings as a property because there is no demonstrated investment. The demonstrated definition of property closes the door to discretionary interpretation (abuse) and opens the door to calculation. It accomplishes the opposite of what you are concerned about. So think of it this way – the point of a demonstrated definition of property wasn’t to expand property rights beyond material possessions etc. (This isn’t a ploy.) It begins with clarifying the causes for human conflict, i.e. what inspires retaliation and why do we retaliate. By doing this it becomes clear older versions of property definitions (possession i.e. property equates to ownership, exclusive control) and mixed labour theories (material becomes property when we mix our labor with it) are partially correct but highly flawed. Simply put, property exists as a behaviour humans exhibit toward objects. And once the behaviour was discovered then it became clear that humans behave this way toward more than just objects. Our language use exemplifies this. We use the possessive for all sorts of things which we don’t consider property by traditional definitions… my wife, my daughter, my religion, my idea, my friend etc… And in all of these cases we have investment and willingness to maintain (reinvest), protect if threatened, and retaliate if damaged. So this isn’t word games, it runs deeper with thicker foundations than just “changing definitions”. (Much like “health” is an abstract, it is also something we’ve incrementally discovered, a demonstrated definition of property exists as an incremental discovery of a real abstraction.)

  • Property as A Human Behavior

    PROPERTY AS A HUMAN BEHAVIOR by Bill Joslin A demonstrated definition of property doesn’t result in a less precise criteria for deciding property. The demonstrated definition: i.e. the investment to seek a future benefit to the extent one would seek restitution or retaliation if said investment has been imposed upon, damaged or destroyed. This definition has two sides to it – the investment (which is demonstrated) and the willingness protect the investment. Another way to describe property is the term “demonstrated interests”. By this we have a clear means of calculating (not interpreting) property and a measure for imposiition. People would not be able to claim their feelings as a property because there is no demonstrated investment. The demonstrated definition of property closes the door to discretionary interpretation (abuse) and opens the door to calculation. It accomplishes the opposite of what you are concerned about. So think of it this way – the point of a demonstrated definition of property wasn’t to expand property rights beyond material possessions etc. (This isn’t a ploy.) It begins with clarifying the causes for human conflict, i.e. what inspires retaliation and why do we retaliate. By doing this it becomes clear older versions of property definitions (possession i.e. property equates to ownership, exclusive control) and mixed labour theories (material becomes property when we mix our labor with it) are partially correct but highly flawed. Simply put, property exists as a behaviour humans exhibit toward objects. And once the behaviour was discovered then it became clear that humans behave this way toward more than just objects. Our language use exemplifies this. We use the possessive for all sorts of things which we don’t consider property by traditional definitions… my wife, my daughter, my religion, my idea, my friend etc… And in all of these cases we have investment and willingness to maintain (reinvest), protect if threatened, and retaliate if damaged. So this isn’t word games, it runs deeper with thicker foundations than just “changing definitions”. (Much like “health” is an abstract, it is also something we’ve incrementally discovered, a demonstrated definition of property exists as an incremental discovery of a real abstraction.)

  • RT @DrSueOosthuizen: 14. Bailey called this a ‘wide’ open field system because t

    RT @DrSueOosthuizen: 14. Bailey called this a ‘wide’ open field system because the farmers had ‘wide’ rights to graze in the fallows. And…


    Source date (UTC): 2019-09-20 21:32:10 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1175160747858546689

  • What freedom to contract don’t you have? What impedes your freedom to contract?

    What freedom to contract don’t you have? What impedes your freedom to contract? The state won’t enforce contracts, but you can contract for anything not a conspiracy against others.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-09-18 11:07:18 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1174278718870695936

    Reply addressees: @danstrawhun @primalpoly

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1174144741044305929


    IN REPLY TO:

    @dstrwhn

    @gmiller Freedom to contract.

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  • What’s an example of a contract you can’t enter into on terms you see fit? You c

    What’s an example of a contract you can’t enter into on terms you see fit? You can enter into any contract, but the state as an insurer of contracts will not enforce them. And then, of course, the litmus test: what about blackmail?


    Source date (UTC): 2019-09-18 11:00:39 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1174277044924035074

    Reply addressees: @KralcTrebor @Darren_B_Lane @primalpoly

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1174140544290828290


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  • No. Instead, eliminate renting where rent control is a question. Watch what happ

    No. Instead, eliminate renting where rent control is a question. Watch what happens.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-09-13 07:02:54 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1172405274646212610

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  • Freedom of Speech Under Propertarianism?

    —“Could you offer a brief explanation of how freedom of speech would be codified under Propertarianism?”—The Last Scout II @last_scout2

    Think of it this way. What can you testify to in court? What do you have the knowledge to testify to? We hold people accountable for their testimony, for their commercial speech, but not their political, academic, and scientific speech (matters of the commons). So … When engaged in Public Speech TO the Public (not talking with friends etc), especially for personal, commercial, political gain you can’t make false or irreciprocal statements in matters of the commons (economics, politics, law, science). This law will criminalize political correctness and the pseudosciences the way we have criminalized related kinds of commercial, medical, and legal speech. Politicians, academics, public intellectuals, reporters – the entire gossip profession, would have to warranty the truthfulness (scientific), operationality, and reciprocity of their speech, and could not advocate for ir-reciprocity (theft) using falsehoods (fraud), especially as a group (conspiracy). Only Trades. The reason is that government is violence. You the only non-violent means of cooperation is TRADE. Now, what does this mean in practice? It means that there are three common-sense tests:

    1. Are you making a truth claim (“is”), advocating for political coercion (“good”), expressing an opinion (should), or venting in frustration(nonsense)?
      .
    2. Are you advocating for reciprocity (exchange), an investment (returns), a restitution (proportionality), or a coercion (redistribution), a corruption (rents and rent-seeking), a taking (theft), or a harm (war, injury, or death)?
      .
    3. Are you speaking in operational language – a sequence of actions stating the HOW and accounting for the COSTS to all involved – demonstrating you possess the knowledge to make the claim or using GSRRM (shaming, psychologizing moralizing), Sophism, IdealismPseudoscience, or Supernaturalism to obscure the fact that you either lack the knowledge and understanding your claim, or are engaging in deceit?

    In Scientific terms that means is what you’re saying Logical, Empirical, Possible, Rational, Reciprocal, Fully Accounted, and Transparent?  (Operational language provides both possibility and transparency). In legal terms it’s just a tiny bit more precise, and not really necessary for ordinary people to understand: Have you performed due diligence against ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, obscurantism, fictionalism, and deceit by testes of identity, internal consistency, external correspondence, operational possibility, rational choice, reciprocity in rational choice, fully accounted for cause and consequence in within stated limits,  and reversibility and capacity for restitution if you’re wrong? It didn’t matter when all we could do is write letters and conduct arguments, or when books were costly, but the industrialization of information by mass media has made it possible to conduct organized lying on a massive scale not possible since the invention of the monotheistic religions, distributed by Roman roads. Marxism was pseudoscience sophism and wishful thinking.  Feminism is an experiment in irreciprocity, and postmodernism is simply lying on a civilizational scale. it is as disastrous to modernity as Christianity and Islam were to antiquity. In this sense, we have freedom of speech to speak the truth. We do not have freedom of speech to engage in criminal activity under the cover of freedom of speech. This is exactly how the Enemy Left operates:  Proportionality without Reciprocity, under the industrialization of lying, using the false promise of the possibility of equality. Equality or life after death. No difference. False promise after death. False promise prior to death. False promise either way. Curt Doolittle    


    This question was in response to an earlier post:

    You don’t understand. If information is a good, and a service, then deplatforming is cartelling. Yep. And that’s where we’re going. Cartels. And that is the legal route we’re going to take.  And we’re going to take a LONG time at it. Because longer we take, the more we talk about it, the more of an understanding the public will come to.

  • Freedom of Speech Under Propertarianism?

    —“Could you offer a brief explanation of how freedom of speech would be codified under Propertarianism?”—The Last Scout II @last_scout2

    Think of it this way. What can you testify to in court? What do you have the knowledge to testify to? We hold people accountable for their testimony, for their commercial speech, but not their political, academic, and scientific speech (matters of the commons). So … When engaged in Public Speech TO the Public (not talking with friends etc), especially for personal, commercial, political gain you can’t make false or irreciprocal statements in matters of the commons (economics, politics, law, science). This law will criminalize political correctness and the pseudosciences the way we have criminalized related kinds of commercial, medical, and legal speech. Politicians, academics, public intellectuals, reporters – the entire gossip profession, would have to warranty the truthfulness (scientific), operationality, and reciprocity of their speech, and could not advocate for ir-reciprocity (theft) using falsehoods (fraud), especially as a group (conspiracy). Only Trades. The reason is that government is violence. You the only non-violent means of cooperation is TRADE. Now, what does this mean in practice? It means that there are three common-sense tests:

    1. Are you making a truth claim (“is”), advocating for political coercion (“good”), expressing an opinion (should), or venting in frustration(nonsense)?
      .
    2. Are you advocating for reciprocity (exchange), an investment (returns), a restitution (proportionality), or a coercion (redistribution), a corruption (rents and rent-seeking), a taking (theft), or a harm (war, injury, or death)?
      .
    3. Are you speaking in operational language – a sequence of actions stating the HOW and accounting for the COSTS to all involved – demonstrating you possess the knowledge to make the claim or using GSRRM (shaming, psychologizing moralizing), Sophism, IdealismPseudoscience, or Supernaturalism to obscure the fact that you either lack the knowledge and understanding your claim, or are engaging in deceit?

    In Scientific terms that means is what you’re saying Logical, Empirical, Possible, Rational, Reciprocal, Fully Accounted, and Transparent?  (Operational language provides both possibility and transparency). In legal terms it’s just a tiny bit more precise, and not really necessary for ordinary people to understand: Have you performed due diligence against ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, obscurantism, fictionalism, and deceit by testes of identity, internal consistency, external correspondence, operational possibility, rational choice, reciprocity in rational choice, fully accounted for cause and consequence in within stated limits,  and reversibility and capacity for restitution if you’re wrong? It didn’t matter when all we could do is write letters and conduct arguments, or when books were costly, but the industrialization of information by mass media has made it possible to conduct organized lying on a massive scale not possible since the invention of the monotheistic religions, distributed by Roman roads. Marxism was pseudoscience sophism and wishful thinking.  Feminism is an experiment in irreciprocity, and postmodernism is simply lying on a civilizational scale. it is as disastrous to modernity as Christianity and Islam were to antiquity. In this sense, we have freedom of speech to speak the truth. We do not have freedom of speech to engage in criminal activity under the cover of freedom of speech. This is exactly how the Enemy Left operates:  Proportionality without Reciprocity, under the industrialization of lying, using the false promise of the possibility of equality. Equality or life after death. No difference. False promise after death. False promise prior to death. False promise either way. Curt Doolittle    


    This question was in response to an earlier post:

    You don’t understand. If information is a good, and a service, then deplatforming is cartelling. Yep. And that’s where we’re going. Cartels. And that is the legal route we’re going to take.  And we’re going to take a LONG time at it. Because longer we take, the more we talk about it, the more of an understanding the public will come to.

  • Constitution: The Territories, Monuments, Arts, and Letters

    Constitution: The Territories, Monuments, Arts, and Letters

    Article XIV

    The Territories Monuments, Arts, and Letters

    “The Market for Production of Monuments”

    Evils Regarding ___________;
  • Constitution: The Territories, Monuments, Arts, and Letters

    Constitution: The Territories, Monuments, Arts, and Letters

    Article XIV

    The Territories Monuments, Arts, and Letters

    “The Market for Production of Monuments”

    Evils Regarding ___________;