Curt Doolittle

Theme: Reform

  • Untitled

    https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/mike-brown-law-requires-all-state-county-and-local-police-wear-camera/8tlS5czf

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-22 09:42:00 UTC

  • am a big fan of the 100% transparent law enforcement initiative. If you want it,

    https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/mike-brown-law-requires-all-state-county-and-local-police-wear-camera/8tlS5czfI am a big fan of the 100% transparent law enforcement initiative.

    If you want it, then this is the only way you can have it.

    I usually recommend juries as the solution to most political decisions. And social media is a better manager of bureaucratic behavior than hierarchy.

    (My product also works a bit like this. Management always has perverse incentives.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-22 07:27:00 UTC

  • Is It Possible To Reconcile Tort Reform And Libertarian Philosophy?

    Um.  This isn’t necessarily a libertarian issue so much as a logical one.  The problem is that jury determination of penalties is arbitrary, and incalculable so that risk is un-measurable, and that penalties of scale are just passed on to consumers.  This means that lawsuits can be pursued as lottery ticket purchases by all but the defendant, and that organizations must seek to escape rather than honestly resolve disputes.

    The libertarian argument would require the elimination of limited liability, the removal of employee indemnification, and of management and board liability. All of these existing protections were provided by the government in order to allow abuses of the law in order to increase employment and tax revenues. So, instead, libertarians would recommend that all employees and all employers carry insurance against malfeasance. And that insurance companies would require a great deal of contractual adherence, training in exchange, in order to cover losses.  Misbehavior would break the contract, pierce any corporate veil, and open every employee, manger, executive, and board member in the causal chain to personal suit.

    If you want a less corrupt america, then remove the government from the process – because the government is the cause.

    This is the best I can do in short form, but it should get the libertarian point across: the common law, civic participation, personal accountability, and insurance companies provide market incentives that bureaucratic monopolies do not.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-to-reconcile-tort-reform-and-libertarian-philosophy

  • Is It Possible To Reconcile Tort Reform And Libertarian Philosophy?

    Um.  This isn’t necessarily a libertarian issue so much as a logical one.  The problem is that jury determination of penalties is arbitrary, and incalculable so that risk is un-measurable, and that penalties of scale are just passed on to consumers.  This means that lawsuits can be pursued as lottery ticket purchases by all but the defendant, and that organizations must seek to escape rather than honestly resolve disputes.

    The libertarian argument would require the elimination of limited liability, the removal of employee indemnification, and of management and board liability. All of these existing protections were provided by the government in order to allow abuses of the law in order to increase employment and tax revenues. So, instead, libertarians would recommend that all employees and all employers carry insurance against malfeasance. And that insurance companies would require a great deal of contractual adherence, training in exchange, in order to cover losses.  Misbehavior would break the contract, pierce any corporate veil, and open every employee, manger, executive, and board member in the causal chain to personal suit.

    If you want a less corrupt america, then remove the government from the process – because the government is the cause.

    This is the best I can do in short form, but it should get the libertarian point across: the common law, civic participation, personal accountability, and insurance companies provide market incentives that bureaucratic monopolies do not.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-to-reconcile-tort-reform-and-libertarian-philosophy

  • LEAVE, INNOVATORS REPLACE Wendy McElroy threatens to leave the movement. But I’l

    http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/35540/Wendy-McElroy-A-Letter-to-My-Father/#sthash.Rfi3Umvi.dpufCOWARDS LEAVE, INNOVATORS REPLACE

    Wendy McElroy threatens to leave the movement. But I’ll do her one better. I want to de-legitimize it, destroy it, and replace it with one that will succeed. One based upon liberty, not libertinism masquerading as liberty.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-16 16:29:00 UTC

  • Ayelam, you know, you put that damned idea in my head the other night about refo

    Ayelam, you know, you put that damned idea in my head the other night about reforming the Hegelian paradigm and you know, you’re right, and I never would have thought about it in that context. But the more I think about it, the more I understand what you meant. Thanks for that, and thanks for everything else too.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-14 12:55:00 UTC

  • WE CAN CHANGE THAT…. “The primary problem of politics is the lag in the develo

    WE CAN CHANGE THAT….

    “The primary problem of politics is the lag in the development of political institutions behind social and economic change”– Huntington.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-10 18:18:00 UTC

  • LIBERTY IN OUR LIFETIMES! Aristocratic Egalitarianism + Propertarianism + Operat

    LIBERTY IN OUR LIFETIMES!

    Aristocratic Egalitarianism + Propertarianism + Operationalism (Praxeology/Ethical Realism)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-08 04:49:00 UTC

  • Obtaining Liberty In Our Lifetime

    LIBERTY IN OUR LIFETIME [A]phoristic arguments, programmatic as they may be, are ideologically utilitarian, and place limited burden on the speaker. They teach the intuition through use and repetition, better than verbose and detailed arguments. Conservatives (aristocratic egalitarians) understand this. Or at least intuit it. That is why they win the moral battle for votes, despite inferior intellectuals, and arational arguments. One may not see it, but look at how fast the work I have done, just since December, is spreading across the internet. My terminology alone is working its way into dialog. Thanks to the internet, we live in a new order, with new distribution channels. In the current order, the market for information is not controlled by the paradigm of the prior generation. One need not seek approval or permission from the establishment – only provide the market with product it demands. One can sell an idea, or, one can create demand for an idea. One can attempt to create demand for inadequate libertarianism, or one can satisfy demand for an adequate libertarianism. Liberty that satisfies demand. Liberty in our lifetimes. Aristocratic Egalitarianism. Aristocracy (liberty) of the willing.

    Ayelam Valentine Agaliba Anything that can be shown apriori can be demonstrated or translated empirically with higher confidence but not everything that is empirical can be demonstrated apriori. Curt Doolittle —“Anything that can be shown apriori can be demonstrated or translated empirically with higher confidence but not everything that is empirical can be demonstrated apriori.”— Wow. I… I really want to kiss you for that quote. But I think you would object. So I’ll just thank you profusely. lol

  • Obtaining Liberty In Our Lifetime

    LIBERTY IN OUR LIFETIME [A]phoristic arguments, programmatic as they may be, are ideologically utilitarian, and place limited burden on the speaker. They teach the intuition through use and repetition, better than verbose and detailed arguments. Conservatives (aristocratic egalitarians) understand this. Or at least intuit it. That is why they win the moral battle for votes, despite inferior intellectuals, and arational arguments. One may not see it, but look at how fast the work I have done, just since December, is spreading across the internet. My terminology alone is working its way into dialog. Thanks to the internet, we live in a new order, with new distribution channels. In the current order, the market for information is not controlled by the paradigm of the prior generation. One need not seek approval or permission from the establishment – only provide the market with product it demands. One can sell an idea, or, one can create demand for an idea. One can attempt to create demand for inadequate libertarianism, or one can satisfy demand for an adequate libertarianism. Liberty that satisfies demand. Liberty in our lifetimes. Aristocratic Egalitarianism. Aristocracy (liberty) of the willing.

    Ayelam Valentine Agaliba Anything that can be shown apriori can be demonstrated or translated empirically with higher confidence but not everything that is empirical can be demonstrated apriori. Curt Doolittle —“Anything that can be shown apriori can be demonstrated or translated empirically with higher confidence but not everything that is empirical can be demonstrated apriori.”— Wow. I… I really want to kiss you for that quote. But I think you would object. So I’ll just thank you profusely. lol