Curt Doolittle

Theme: Responsibility

  • Evil: costs imposed on others for the purpose of causing suffering and loss rath

    Evil: costs imposed on others for the purpose of causing suffering and loss rather than for purposes of personal gain.

    There is evil in this world.

    George Soros.

    Serial Killers.

    Barak Obama.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-11 11:02:00 UTC

  • DEFINITIONS OF MORAL, ETHICAL, CRIMINAL Moral: costs imposed by externality. Eth

    DEFINITIONS OF MORAL, ETHICAL, CRIMINAL

    Moral: costs imposed by externality.

    Ethical: costs imposed interpersonally.

    Criminal: costs imposed physically

    Evil: costs imposed for the purpose of imposing costs and causing suffering rather than for personal gain.

    Objective morality: necessary/natural law. (think physical law, and natural law.)

    Normative morality : evolved morality – includes normative contractual provisions. If a moral norm requires the bearing of a cost, and one violates that norm, one imposes a cost upon those who bear the cost. (think contract law)

    Traditional Moral Commands: Religious contract traditions that may or may not be in fact moral. Since a religion requires a contract of one sort or another that causes mass behavior that is usually costly to members, it is a violation of that normative contract that imposes costs upon others to fail to observe it. (think legislation)

    Declining Traditional, Religious, and normative moral rules: changing circumstance has eliminate the value of the prior order’s demand for to forgo an opportunity or bear a cost. Some continue to pay and others do not, but objectively the value of the behavior has declined. (think outdated legislation)

    Abnormal Moral Rules: signal traditions that are objectively immoral but have not been eradicated through competition. (Think ancient traditions that actually cause harm.)

    This is pretty much how it works world ’round.

    Curt

    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-11 10:54:00 UTC

  • #libertarian #conservative #altright #NRx #propertarianism To testify (speak) wi

    #libertarian #conservative #altright #NRx #propertarianism To testify (speak) without due diligence is to engage in fraud. Argument=promise.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-10 12:24:45 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/707905028208640000

  • Q&A: “Curt; Do You Have a Concise Definition for Testimonialism?”

    Colloquially: “The completion of the scientific method for the purpose of the conduct of law”. Testimonial Truth: Testimony (Speech) that is warrantied by the speaker through the performance of due diligence against imaginary content, error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, deception and fraud. The only truth that can exist is that which is spoken. We can never speak the perfect truth because we can never know if we possess it. The most perfect truth we can speak is that which we have performed due diligence, that we do not speak in falsehood: fraud. Testimonialism: A set of tests of due diligence, the satisfaction of which allows us to warranty that to the best of our ability our speech (testimony) is free of the falsehoods: imaginary content, error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, deceit, and fraud. Truth: That testimony we would give if we possessed perfect (complete) knowledge, perfect language, and an audience possessed of the same. And, at that point we speak a name, not a description. Everything has a true name. We seek that name. In seeking it we seek truth. h/t: Nick Zito

  • Q&A: “Curt; Do You Have a Concise Definition for Testimonialism?”

    Colloquially: “The completion of the scientific method for the purpose of the conduct of law”. Testimonial Truth: Testimony (Speech) that is warrantied by the speaker through the performance of due diligence against imaginary content, error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, deception and fraud. The only truth that can exist is that which is spoken. We can never speak the perfect truth because we can never know if we possess it. The most perfect truth we can speak is that which we have performed due diligence, that we do not speak in falsehood: fraud. Testimonialism: A set of tests of due diligence, the satisfaction of which allows us to warranty that to the best of our ability our speech (testimony) is free of the falsehoods: imaginary content, error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, deceit, and fraud. Truth: That testimony we would give if we possessed perfect (complete) knowledge, perfect language, and an audience possessed of the same. And, at that point we speak a name, not a description. Everything has a true name. We seek that name. In seeking it we seek truth. h/t: Nick Zito

  • #libertarian #conservative #altright #NRx #propertarianism To testify (speak) wi

    #libertarian #conservative #altright #NRx #propertarianism To testify (speak) without due diligence is to engage in fraud. Argument=promise.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-10 07:24:00 UTC

  • “What benefit is there, in protecting liars from retaliation, if they can be sho

    —“What benefit is there, in protecting liars from retaliation, if they can be shown to be liars? Why do you want to protect liars, unless you should be one yourself?”— Eli Harman

    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-09 03:41:00 UTC

  • The Journey

    I would rather invest in a moral man regardless of his abilities than invest in intelligent men regardless of his morality. We call it humility but it can also be described as endlessness. There are those of us who wish to be done and those of us who wish to journey. And it is only the latter who have any chance. One can be wise because of life’s lessons. Or one can possess traits of the wise despite lacking those lessons. The wise recognize the behavior no matter how it was learned: by accident or by trial and error. It matters not your age it matters only that you possess humility and discipline.

  • The Journey

    I would rather invest in a moral man regardless of his abilities than invest in intelligent men regardless of his morality. We call it humility but it can also be described as endlessness. There are those of us who wish to be done and those of us who wish to journey. And it is only the latter who have any chance. One can be wise because of life’s lessons. Or one can possess traits of the wise despite lacking those lessons. The wise recognize the behavior no matter how it was learned: by accident or by trial and error. It matters not your age it matters only that you possess humility and discipline.

  • Killing Terrorist’s Families

    (h/t Eli Harman)

    Note: it is against the geneva convention to kill a someone engaged in war on the behalf of a state. To say that we will not kill the family of a terrorist is to say that we are in fact at war with them. But the purpose of the geneva convention is to allow the states to engage in warfare using conscripts without those conscripts turning against their own in order to protect their families. This misapplication of the convention is intended to empower the states to fight war with conscripts, not create safe havens for terrorists. But that is what it does. So again this shows the necessity for strict construction in law and contract. Without this provision this law can be misapplied. In other words, the state can lie to us yet again.

    “Well, it was the norm throughout all history, and the fact that we don’t retaliate against all family members is a modern invention of individualism. “The basic principle is this: Police your own. If you do not police your own, you will pay for it. Do not ask the rest of us to police yours. “Secondly, family members (especially in islam) have perverse incentive to encourage this behavior. “Third, when someone is acting in a military capacity on behalf of a group then the group benefits from the action in that capacity. Ergo we must provide disincentives to benefit from encouragement of immorality. “So, my view is of course, that we cannot use reciprocity (individualism) unless we receive reciprocity (individualism). As such we are obligated to engage in the prosecution of family members.” – Curt Doolittle