Curt Doolittle

Theme: Reciprocity

  • PERFECT GOVERNMENT We had the Best System of Government (Perfect Government) and

    PERFECT GOVERNMENT

    We had the Best System of Government (Perfect Government) and we blew it:

    1) Nomocracy (Rule of Law by Natural Law of Torts: Reciprocity)

    2) A Hereditary Monarchy as Judge of Last Resort, and custodian of territory, institutions, organizations, families, and individuals.

    …. A State(Foreign Relations) Organization,

    …. A Professional Military,

    …. A Professional Judiciary, and

    …. A Treasury of Last Resort.

    3) A Market for Commons consisting of:

    …. Regional Nobility(Persistent families) serving as a normative Supreme Court

    …. A House of Industry(Commons) for those with responsibilities.

    …. A Church Serving as a House of Labor and family.

    4) A Local (Democratic) Polity(private partnership) of Property Owners

    …. A Militia and Sheriffs

    …. Voluntary Civic Organizations

    5) The Nuclear Family. And Family and Nation as subject of policy

    6) The Individual and Property as the subject of law.

    Really. You can’t do much better than that for a ‘steady state’. Because under war or stress the organization can switch from market rule to military rule (Fascism), and under plenty the organization can switch from market rule to (contingent and temporary) redistribution.

    The central probelm with all forms of government is nothing more complex than the demographics of the polity. The larger the demonstrated underclass, the less effective a government and the more risk involved and the more limited are one’s options. The smaller the demonstrated underclass, the more effective a government and the less risk involved and the more plentiful (variable) are one’s options.

    Market governments cause a natural eugenic change in the distribution, while creating the greatest adaptability, rate of innovation(competition) and highest standard of living.

    But they require a militia or at least a dedicated military to bring into being.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2017-09-14 15:27:00 UTC

  • by Eli Harman You earn the protection of the rules by submitting to and abiding

    by Eli Harman You earn the protection of the rules by submitting to and abiding by the rules. Optionally: by helping to enforce the rules. I don’t think this last part is optional, although your help can be indirect (pay your taxes) rather than direct (militia service.) Libertarians who say the rules just are, whether god-given, inalienable, natural, morally imperative, self-evident, or what have you, are just lying in order to try and obtain their protection at a discount.

  • by Eli Harman You earn the protection of the rules by submitting to and abiding

    by Eli Harman You earn the protection of the rules by submitting to and abiding by the rules. Optionally: by helping to enforce the rules. I don’t think this last part is optional, although your help can be indirect (pay your taxes) rather than direct (militia service.) Libertarians who say the rules just are, whether god-given, inalienable, natural, morally imperative, self-evident, or what have you, are just lying in order to try and obtain their protection at a discount.

  • by Eli Harman You earn the protection of the rules by submitting to and abiding

    by Eli Harman

    You earn the protection of the rules by submitting to and abiding by the rules. Optionally: by helping to enforce the rules. I don’t think this last part is optional, although your help can be indirect (pay your taxes) rather than direct (militia service.)

    Libertarians who say the rules just are, whether god-given, inalienable, natural, morally imperative, self-evident, or what have you, are just lying in order to try and obtain their protection at a discount.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-09-13 19:38:00 UTC

  • One does not argue from preferences, beliefs or principles but from truth or fal

    One does not argue from preferences, beliefs or principles but from truth or falsehood, possibility or impossibility, gain or loss, volition or non-volition, reciprocity or non-reciprocity. Arguing to preference, belief or principle is just an admission of ignorance and incompetence – meaning one should not impose the costs of incompetence and ignorance upon others and merely remain silent.

  • One does not argue from preferences, beliefs or principles but from truth or fal

    One does not argue from preferences, beliefs or principles but from truth or falsehood, possibility or impossibility, gain or loss, volition or non-volition, reciprocity or non-reciprocity. Arguing to preference, belief or principle is just an admission of ignorance and incompetence – meaning one should not impose the costs of incompetence and ignorance upon others and merely remain silent.

  • One does not argue from preferences, beliefs or principles but from truth or fal

    One does not argue from preferences, beliefs or principles but from truth or falsehood, possibility or impossibility, gain or loss, volition or non-volition, reciprocity or non-reciprocity. Arguing to preference, belief or principle is just an admission of ignorance and incompetence – meaning one should not impose the costs of incompetence and ignorance upon others and merely remain silent.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-09-13 17:59:00 UTC

  • Abortion

    Abortion, like all violence, is neither intrinsically good nor intrinsically bad, but helpful or harmful. It is helpful or harmful to the individuals, or helpful or harmful to the polity, or helpful or harmful to mankind. In other words, abortion in the upper 20% is harmful to society and to man, and abortion in the lower 50% is beneficial to society and to man, and for everyone else it’s merely helpful or harmful to the individual. Likewise reproduction in the lower 50% is harmful to individuals, to society, and to man. Reproduction in the upper 20% is helpful to society and to man. And for everyone else, reproduction is merely helpful or harmful to the individual. Really. It’s that’s simple. That’s the answer, and there is no other answer that I know of. It’s not only simple it’s patently obvious. The only reason it’s an even vaguely interesting question is the strange cognitive bias that the question applies equally to all, rather than differently to each. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • ABORTION Abortion, like all violence, is neither intrinsically good nor intrinsi

    ABORTION

    Abortion, like all violence, is neither intrinsically good nor intrinsically bad, but helpful or harmful.

    It is helpful or harmful to the individuals, or helpful or harmful to the polity, or helpful or harmful to mankind.

    In other words, abortion in the upper 20% is harmful to society and to man, and abortion in the lower 50% is beneficial to society and to man, and for everyone else it’s merely helpful or harmful to the individual.

    Likewise reproduction in the lower 50% is harmful to individuals, to society, and to man. Reproduction in the upper 20% is helpful to society and to man. And for everyone else, reproduction is merely helpful or harmful to the individual.

    Really. It’s that’s simple. That’s the answer, and there is no other answer that I know of. It’s not only simple it’s patently obvious. The only reason it’s an even vaguely interesting question is the strange cognitive bias that the question applies equally to all, rather than differently to each.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2017-09-13 15:12:00 UTC

  • The Construction Of A Civil Order

    by John Dow I would define a ‘Civil Order’ as the result of successfully negotiated, reciprocal social construction. In order to successfully negotiate a condition of interpersonal reciprocity we must have incentive to: 1) reciprocally participate (suppression of parasitism), 2) trust that exchange shall be honoured (insurance) and; 3) commensurable means of reference and calculation (truthful speech and operational law). Mindfulness practiced correctly enables one to better conceive of the externalities of their behaviour and the actual and/or potential social rewards and punishments which accrue from these externalities. Thus, as Mindfulness generates greater rationality in the practitioner, it generates greater capacity to calculate reciprocity, therefore generating greater capacity to successfully negotiate reciprocity. (curt says: “perfection”. That is how it is done.)