Theme: Responsibility

  • Curt Doolittle You, by virtue of you occupation create a dense gathering of peop

    Curt Doolittle

    You, by virtue of you occupation create a dense gathering of people that exposes them to risk but which you profit from. Since you can learn to be sufficiently competent with a handgun in just a few lessons, failing to do it is just an excuse not to take responsibility for the defence of the citizenry. As such it is hard to argue that you reap the extraordinary rewards of this society without paying the only cost of enfranchisement: it’s defense.

    Cowardice is merely taking an unearned discount.

    That’s all it is.

    Free riding.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-13 14:04:00 UTC

  • Always greet children with a smile of approval. Always make time for joys, serio

    Always greet children with a smile of approval. Always make time for joys, serious questions and consolation. I cannot entertain children. But protection, consolation, counsel and applause are sufficient provision for men.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-11 12:58:00 UTC

  • Marry only for reproduction. Prenuptial agreement. Severance package. No alimony

    Marry only for reproduction.

    Prenuptial agreement.

    Severance package.

    No alimony.

    Require liquidation of residence and all contents.

    Separate accounts.

    Keep retirement assets offshore.

    Give her an allowance.

    Give her a Christmas bonus.

    The nest is hers to manage on her allowance.

    The kids are hers until they come of age.

    Retire with her to smaller nest near family and friends.

    Otherwise retire to hotel, dormitory, apartment or small house village sharing life with class peers. Never alone unless you love gardening and home maintenance.

    Nap an hour a day.

    Walk an hour a day.

    Avoid sugar, bread, and white food.

    Alcohol is a danger to you.

    Avoid the lower classes – they ruin everything around them.

    Think locally. Act locally. Defeat those who do otherwise.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-10 05:16:00 UTC

  • I suppose imposing restitution upon them is a cost? Or is it merely restitution

    I suppose imposing restitution upon them is a cost? Or is it merely restitution – Justice?


    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-08 12:56:03 UTC

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  • TODAY’S INSIGHTS Just when you think you are done you hop in the shower and have

    TODAY’S INSIGHTS

    Just when you think you are done you hop in the shower and have two insights.

    1) add hazard: productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange free of hazard and free of externality by the same criteria.

    2) My friend Josh has helped me understand that after Propertarianism and testimonialism, that all of philosophy is now a science – other than aesthetics, which is preference. And that this is the fallacy of the continentals: conflating aesthetic preferences with metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and politics.

    This, along with the understanding that the nazi movement was an aesthetic one helps me see what as an American I could not: the dominance of aesthetics in European thought. And the use of aesthetics as authoritarian persuasion. Which is enough of a topic that I must go research it.

    Because it’s profound.

    Beauty as cultural mandate.

    Brilliant.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-08 02:19:00 UTC

  • LOGIC FOR MODELING MANKIND (learning propertarianism) (important piece) I’ve con

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2015/07/27/property-rights-and-obligations/PROPERTARIANISM: LOGIC FOR MODELING MANKIND

    (learning propertarianism) (important piece)

    I’ve constructed Propertarianism to model man as he(she) is, not as we wish he would be. This model turns out to be fairly simple to use:

    I – ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY EN TOTO

    You make a list of the property-en-toto that people want to acquire.

    II – +COOPERATION / -PARASITISM

    You treat productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange as a the only rational incentive to cooperate; and the only fully rational reason to abandon conflict, parasitism and predation. And you also require actions be free of externality against those with whom you already cooperate.

    III – +PREMIUMS / -DISCOUNTING

    Then you treat all exchanges that vary from productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange as discounts(cheating) or premiums(buying insurance).

    IV – REPRODUCTIVE BIAS: MALE=TRIBE / FEMALE=OFFSPRING

    Human males(quality/production), and females (quantity/consumption) vary in their reproductive strategies.

    V – FITNESS (CLASS)

    Now, humans vary in objective (a)reproductive value and (b)productive(multiplier) value, and (c)associative(opportunity) value (social, economic and political class).

    VI – +ADVOCACY/-JUSTIFICATION

    And we humans advocate on behalf of our reproductives strategy. Almost everything we utter justifies our reproductive strategy or negotiates on behalf of our reproductive strategy.

    VII – +REWARD / -COERCION

    And there are three ways of coercing others into helping with your reproductive strategy (or conversely, hindering their reproductive strategy), and those three are 1) voluntary productive exchange (libertarian/commercial), 2) lying /gossiping /rallying (progressive/priesthood), and 3) threat of violence (conservative/martial)

    VIII – GROUP REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY

    And humans cooperate using a shared group evolutionary (competitive) strategy making use of some combination of the three means of coercion: commerce(+reward/-theft), gossip/priesthood(+status/-rallying), Warriors/soldiers/judges(+law/-war) [*1]

    USING PROPERTARIAN REASONING (LOGIC)

    So, just like economics and mathematics we cannot imagine every possible actions man might take, or set of relations we can construct, but we can explain every possible action man demonstrates in propertarian terms, and every mathematical relation we construct.

    In other words, using propertarianism as a formal logic, you should be able to ‘solve for’ any demonstrated human behavior.

    This is why propertarianism is so fully explanatory. You have to practice it and master it like you do mathematics, or programming, or chemistry, or physics. But after you do practice it a while, you begin to see the general patterns and you become skilled at explaining all human behavior.

    SOCIAL SCIENCE IS NOT PREDICTIVE IT IS EXPLANATORY

    We can say what men will likely do given certain constraints. But we cannot forecast what men will do with *sufficient precision to predict outcomes*. This is the correct means of describing the predictability of heuristic systems: that human laws of behavior exist. But that they are largely in-actionable. That is because the degree of precision in the laws of social sciences is limited by the capacity of man to learn and constantly alter his deterministic path, for given the information at his disposal. And we have too little knowledge of the information at one’s disposal, and the information held by any individual, to predict other than general directions.

    PROPERTARIANISM PROVIDES US WITH THE FORMAL LOGIC OF SOCIAL SCIENCE.

    And there isn’t much more to it than I have stated in this article.

    SIMULATIONS

    I haven’t the time to build a software simulation for demonstrating human behavior using these ideas, but it isn’t terribly difficult.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine.

    LINKS

    Property en Toto

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2015/07/27/property-rights-and-obligations/

    [*1]This is why progressives tried to suppress Darwin in education, and aggressively campaign (gossip) against social darwinism: as self defense of the female reproductive strategy, and the lower class reproductive strategy, against the upper class and male reproductive strategies.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-03 11:29:00 UTC

  • GOD FORBID WE PUNISH THE WICKED… God forbid we would punish people who fail to

    GOD FORBID WE PUNISH THE WICKED…

    God forbid we would punish people who fail to train their dogs. Much better that we punish people who do train their dogs with unnecessary leash laws.

    God forbid that we would impinge upon the ‘liberty’ of the downtrodden lunatics. Much better to impinge upon the liberty of the rest of us responsible liberty-defending gun owners.

    God forbid we should penalize businesses and landlords who profit from illegal immigrants. God forbid we should punish illegal immigrants. Instead we should punish law enforcement officers who enforce the law, citizens who seek to turn them in, and anyone else who stops them from preying upon us.

    God forbid we should we should require literacy and legal status from people who wish to cast a vote that justifies the violence of the state. Instead we should punish people who seek to limit the franchise to those who have earned it by demonstrating the virtue of their judgements.

    God forbid we punish muslims for the actions of their fellows so that they pressure their own people. Much better that we punish christians who show intolerance, and bomb the hell out of primitive peoples.

    God forbid we punish Keynesians, socialists and feminists for destroying the family, rule of law, our Millenia of soft eugenics, our culture, our high arts, and our civilization with pseudoscience and ‘critique’. Much better we punish christians for their mythology that created all of it.

    You almost never run out of examples of progressive lunacy: the female reproductive strategy writ large: “I want my sh_tty genes to persist no matter what the cost to others.”. That’s the story of the feminist west.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-03 08:07:00 UTC

  • THE BIG IF. ***If the majority prefer voluntary servitude in exchange for securi

    THE BIG IF.

    ***If the majority prefer voluntary servitude in exchange for security and the minority prefer liberty in exchange for responsibility, then what is the conflict other than the fallacy of majority democracy that prevents us from achieving it?***


    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-29 13:25:00 UTC

  • TECHNOLOGY ETHICS This is an interesting question in the sense that it’s a clear

    https://www.quora.com/What-are-ethics-for-an-IT-professional/answer/Curt-Doolittle?srid=u4Qv&share=1INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ETHICS

    This is an interesting question in the sense that it’s a clear application of the problem of asymmetry of information, understanding, and power, in the control of a utility (a commons).

    In any niche where one has power and influence over others, because of an asymmetry of knowledge of a common resource that the others cannot understand without extraordinary personal investment, and where he possesses power over others’ use of a common resource, we encounter the challenges of:

    (a) Free-riding: pretending to work in exchange for payment, while not providing market-value in return, because one is not subject to competition which would discover and cure one’s free-riding.

    (b) Corruption : seeking favors or privileges by granting favors or privileges.

    (c) Privatization : obtaining personal benefit from a common resource that could be consumed by others.

    (d) Punishment : deliberately punishing individuals and groups by virtue of one’s control over the provision of the common resource.

    (e) Harm : Deliberately causing the failure of individuals or groups by virtue of one’s control over the function of the common resource.

    (f) Functioning As An Agent: allowing one’s self to be used to free ride, engage in corruption, privatization punishment or harm.

    THEREFORE

    Take no personal benefit, give no favors, do no harm, preserve ethical independence from agency, and make decisions at all times by the business value of the work to be performed.

    CHALLENGES

    Political hierarchies exist by in all bureaucracies, whether private or public, which operate independently from market competition, which constantly discovers inefficiencies (corruption).

    While one an usually adhere to (a) thru (e) in one’s job, it is very hard in a bureaucracy not to be pressured into (f) (Agency) in a bureaucracy. In fact, the trading of such favors (corruption) is the currency that forms the economy of bureaucracies that are insulated from the market.

    HISTORICAL INFLUENCES

    In the 20th century, ethical pragmatism (outcome-based ethics) has replaced ethical absolutism (rule-based ethics) due to the constant pressure of left intellectuals’ attack on western high-trust ethics. This has allowed the ethical pragmatism of lower trust polities to spread in western culture. As such it is difficult to operate ethically in private life, commercial life and public life, because such unethical action is beneficial to the individual while harmful to society.

    This is why westerners are the only people to develop high trust societies. It’s very hard.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-27 17:20:00 UTC

  • THE VIRTUE OF HANGING Unfortunately, the whole expansion of the franchised ruine

    THE VIRTUE OF HANGING

    Unfortunately, the whole expansion of the franchised ruined our excellent ancient tradition of watching your words, through liberal use of the duel.

    Unfortunately, the whole expansion of the franchise ruined our excellent tradition of telling the truth, by the dilution of libel and slander.

    Unfortunately the whole post-slavery thing ruined our excellent ancient tradition of genetic pacification thru liberal application of hanging.

    Unfortunately mass immigration ruined our excellent tradition of genetic pacification through sheriffs, posses, and civic duty of every man to defend the commons.

    Too many unfortunate things for aristocracy to tolerate.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-27 11:00:00 UTC