Curt Doolittle

Theme: Responsibility

  • While it is the fashion in this era to act out the pretense of humoring the peas

    While it is the fashion in this era to act out the pretense of humoring the peasantry, for those of us with long family histories and centuries of responsibility to bear the high cost of Paternal exercise in defense of the normative commons the peasantry takes for granted.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-20 22:29:13 UTC

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  • You have clearly never had responsibility, power, or wealth, because if you did,

    You have clearly never had responsibility, power, or wealth, because if you did, you’d understand that competition just makes the entire process more exciting. The weak worry. The strong bait the weak for amusement while they achieve their goals.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-20 22:14:46 UTC

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  • (taunts to a prole girl) You have clearly never had responsibility, power, or we

    (taunts to a prole girl)

    You have clearly never had responsibility, power, or wealth, because if you did, you’d understand that competition just makes the entire process more exciting. The weak worry. The strong bait the weak for amusement while they achieve their goals.

    Now, you see, name calling, is an admission that one cannot participate in a discourse because of inadequate vocabulary, available knowledge, available paradigms, and the ability to organize them into a set of constant relations that we call ‘argument’ – what humans do.

    When the underclass decides that it will violate the class contract for peaceful negotiations and resorts to name calling, shaming and rallying, it is the upper class’ responsibility -the obligation of the nobility- to exercise good paternal judgment and discipline the children.

    While it is the fashion in this era to act out the pretense of humoring the peasantry, for those of us with long family histories and centuries of responsibility to bear the high cost of Paternal exercise in defense of the normative commons the peasantry takes for granted.

    Now, any good parent, relative, kin, neighbor or nobility will exercise some modicum of patience – usually to let the children vent their energies – at some time we must invest a bit of our energies in necessary disciplinary action. otherwise the children will never mature.

    And one of the lessons that we can best provide is to make an example of a particularly infantile child just to remind the rest of the vermin that grownups do exist, and there is a limit to our paternal tolerance.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-20 18:36:00 UTC

  • A half truth is not true enough, nor is a half good, good enough. While your ext

    A half truth is not true enough, nor is a half good, good enough. While your externality may appear trivial, en mass they are deterministic. Hence the categorical imperative: do nothing you would not wish everyone else to do. The act is only a minority of the consequences.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-20 18:09:04 UTC

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  • Sonya: Don’t be selfish and evil and piss on the good, no matter who does the go

    Sonya: Don’t be selfish and evil and piss on the good, no matter who does the good. People like you are the reason for the bad in this world. If you have nothing good to say do us all a favor and say nothing at all.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-20 14:58:35 UTC

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  • Most people intentionally conflate conviction for convenience – but they’re just

    Most people intentionally conflate conviction for convenience – but they’re just social tax evaders: tolerance isn’t a virtue it’s a crime: an excuse for escaping the high cost of a high trust society through the demand we pay our own way emotionally, intellectually, physically.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-18 19:11:18 UTC

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  • Your questions all start from the presumption of equality that doesn’t exist.If

    Your questions all start from the presumption of equality that doesn’t exist.If those of us who are strong enough, able enough, influential enough, and resourceful enough to eliminate ALL redistribution whatsoever,then why not return you to serfdom or poverty if it is preferable?

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-18 00:27:07 UTC

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    @curtdoolittle So cultural unity counts. Sure.

    How would one calculate any such “optimum”? What are the factors that change with tech or economy or faith diversity?

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  • Think of it this way: For those of us who are strong, able, influential, and res

    Think of it this way: For those of us who are strong, able, influential, and resourceful enough to impose our will on others regardless of their opinions, the only reason not do is if we limit our conflict to truthful, scientific, voluntary exchanges. Thats western civilization.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-18 00:24:32 UTC

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    @jordanbpeterson fan.

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  • What Is Your Personal Philosophy As It Relates To Ethics And Metaphysics? Why?

    This is not so much a philosophy as the results of science that I can no longer deny, and so I live according to the science – in large part because it is advantageous.

    1. We are an expensive life form. Particularly our brains.
    2. We must acquire, and we acquire at cost to ourselves.
    3. All our emotions are nothing but reflections in state of that which we plan to, are in the process of, or have acquired an interest.
    4. Cooperation is logarithmically more productive than any action an individual can take, and therefore we must cooperate to survive. (Possibly as much as ten thousand times as productive.)
    5. People are purely rational, not moral or immoral but amoral: they cheat and try to acquire disproportionately from cooperation, they free ride, steal from, and prey upon others. This is why we demonstrate altruistic punishment of cheaters in all walks of life, even at high personal cost: to prevent defectors from cheating.
    6. The optimum algorithm (really) for developing cooperation is to exhaust every opportunity for cooperation even from cheaters. They almost always come around, because it is always an advantage to come around. This was the entire message of christianity which was lost in the dogma. But it’s just science.
    7. All our speech is merely a dance of negotiation so that we may create opportunities to acquire, do acquire, or preserve what we acquire. All of it is just signaling.
    8. We are entirely incognizant of these behaviors because it is evolutionarily disadvantageous for us to be intuitively honest, honest with ourselves, and honest with others. This is the same reason we have many cognitive, social, and probabilistic biases in our genes. To keep us going when evidence would overwhelm us.
    9. Most of the joy in life is playing this set of word games, cooperative games, and acquisition games with others so that we all acquire what we want as best we can without making others avoid us so that we can’t acquire what we want and need. This is why people commit suicide when they are lonely, and do not commit suicide when they are not.
    10. Therefor the only rule of cooperation, of morality, and of law, is reciprocity: productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary cooperation with each other, and the only immoral actions are those that violate that moral rule by free riding, parasitism, theft, or predation. And that is why reciprocity is the basis of all traditional laws (and why it is not the basis of legislation).

    This little list is the answer to nearly all of metaphysics, epistemology, psychology, sociology, ethics, and politics.

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-your-personal-philosophy-as-it-relates-to-ethics-and-metaphysics-Why

  • Have You Met Anyone Truly Evil? What Makes Them Evil According To You?

    “Yes, my dear, there is evil in this world.”

    Every person who does evil, does not do so because he thinks he is evil, but because he thinks his actions are warranted – either via punishment, retribution, restitution, profit, or some version of ‘getting his or her fair share’ (which is the justification we make for most of our crimes.)

    Even serial killers justify their actions. Mothers justify their criminal sons and daughters. Each of us justifies our indiscretions from the most petty to the most horrid by one excuse or another.

    Was Mao Evil? Was Stalin? Was Mohammed? They are the greatest murderers in history – with the total murders of the communists at more than 100M and the total murders of the Muslims over 500M. Yet they are heroes to some, and in their minds, preventing an even worse bad (they were just wrong).

    Humans are rational actors, and super predators – the most successful super predators on earth. We are gracious, moral, ethical, cooperative, criminal, unethical, immoral, and evil as we see fit.

    YES I KNOW SOME EVIL PEOPLE

    1) I grew up in a farm community fighting with a boy named Bobby Lee on a very regular basis, and the best I could do was pin him and exhaust him. He was dangerous. He grew up to be an arsonist, then a drug dealer, then a stalker, and a double-murderer. The police shot him dead. As any career policeman will tell you “you know by the age of seven who will turn out bad”. And it’s true.

    2) I know a business man (actually a family) that knowingly engaged in Churning resulting in dozens of families losing everything they owned. (I assisted in his prosecution for racketeering).

    3) I know a business man who forged (I turned him into the justice department) legal documents in order to collect money for elderly and their relatives, and keep it.

    4) I know a business man who would use legal extortion, including the most egregious, which was buying a sliver of land next to a child care building, and filing for a permit for housing sexual predators, in order to force the child care company to purchase the land at multiples. (We obtained evidence and turned him into the IRS.)

    5) We all know the (unnamed) fellow who just acquired a patent for a necessary medicine and raised the price dramatically. (He has been prosecuted)

    6) I know a disproportionate number of lawyers and finance people who prey upon well intentioned honorable people in hardship situations. These people are evil (and they get away with it.) I could name them but it would do no good. (this includes a lawyer who fabricated testimony on behalf of his client in a divorce proceeding).

    7) I know a series of venture capitalists that attempt to organize bad deals so that they can upend and take over a company for pennies, and either sell it or strip it of income. More often than not, this is the case.

    8) The top merger and acquisitions law firm in the country regularly counseled my board on means by which to screw shareholders, and actively worked against the interests of shareholders in favor of a minority investor.

    9 ) I know people in the ‘global warming’ movement who engage in misrepresentation of data in order to expand the bureaucracy, and create long term rent seeking jobs for themselves.

    10) There are an absurd number of people in the IRS who perform such heinous crimes against ordinary citizens who make rational mistakes, and ruin them on a regular basis. I know one in particular that takes pleasure in it. She looks for opportunities to take our her envy on others.

    11) I know a certain trial lawyer who only takes death penalty cases, and I can’t even bear know about the people he defends. If you meet any criminal with an IQ under 85, a combination of undesirable personality traits, (more than 3% of the population) and any sort of resentment they are not so much evil as nothing but evil in everything that they think, feel and do.

    12) I know a certain famous economist that does nothing except try to destroy western civilization at every opportunity, out of pure hatred for it in every bone in his body.

    That doesn’t even begin to touch it. Evil is everywhere. And the most evil people are the self righteous who desire something of others because they feel they are due it.

    Now, I can’t tell you what most of these people have in common, because I would be banned for saying it – but all of them are very similar in one respect.

    I hate to say this because I am a long term 1%’er, and I believe in creating wealth, and in my experience Small Business owners and the working class are most honest people. But the legal, financial, government employee, and political classes are about as corrupt and evil as any class of people who ever lived, and if we burned them all at the stake we would live in a far better world.

    If only because everyone that followed after them would understand the consequences.

    So yes, there is evil in this world.

    https://www.quora.com/Have-you-met-anyone-truly-evil-What-makes-them-evil-according-to-you