If men must work to suppress their impulsive desires, why must women not work to oppress their impulsive desires? Are we not equal in rights and responsibilities?
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-30 10:59:00 UTC
Theme: Responsibility
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WHAT ABOUT THE BLEEDING HEARTS? That begs the question: are the bleeding heart l
WHAT ABOUT THE BLEEDING HEARTS?
That begs the question: are the bleeding heart libertarians moral or immoral?
Or said correctly: (a) do they intuit and prefer an objectively moral society, and (b) would their vision produce via institutions a moral or immoral society? (c) And would this society produce sufficient morality to produce liberty? (d)Or would it produce increased or decreased demand for authority? (e) Are they creators of immorality, or are they vectors for lies or not?
I think that they are an interesting contrast against immoral libertines.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-28 08:14:00 UTC
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The silly-tarians who argue from moral intuition, and nothing else – they aren’t
The silly-tarians who argue from moral intuition, and nothing else – they aren’t harmful, or vectors for lies.
Traditional libertarianism (versus immoral libertinism) is a combination of what we consider morality, psychology and law.
It is a skeptical political science driven by historical evidence not a specific prescription for actions, not a claim to authoritarian scripture (as is all cosmopolitanism).
It raises the e question of whether the cosmopolitan moral blindness is an artifact of centuries of debating scripture versus reality – and like all cultures the cosmopolitans were blinded by enforced ignorance.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-28 08:05:00 UTC
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I understand the western moral man: he must have moral authority to coerce other
I understand the western moral man: he must have moral authority to coerce others into moral behavior.
He will not coerce others into any behavior without moral authority.
As such, we merely needed to give western man moral authority to act to coerce the immoral, in order to produce the true, the good, and the beautiful.
Because unlike scriptural or totalitarian civilizations, our western philosophy is not written down in positive form. It is written only in criticisms of the results of our unwritten behaviors and traditions.
That is why we had to write it down in aristocratic egalitarianism, Propertarianism and testimonial truth.
To give moral men moral authority to punish the wicked until they are no longer wicked, or the flee, or they die.
Truth is enough.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-28 04:04:00 UTC
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“Even if the whole world is telling you to move , plant yourself beside the rive
–“Even if the whole world is telling you to move , plant yourself beside the river of truth and say, “No. You move.”– Matthew Ross Funk
Create Wealth. Speak the Truth. Punish the wicked. Never surrender. Show no mercy, give no quarter. Defeat your enemy completely. And if needed, kill them all and let god sort it out.
Excellence: The True, The Good, The Beautiful.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-28 02:15:00 UTC
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In the Ethics of Liberty, Rothbard asserts that blackmail is ethical and deducib
In the Ethics of Liberty, Rothbard asserts that blackmail is ethical and deducible from property rights.
What is the Propertarian view of blackmail?
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http://mises.org/rothbard/ethics/sixteen.asp
“As in all voluntary exchanges, both parties benefit from such an exchange: Smith receives money, and Jones obtains the service of Smith’s not disseminating information about him which Jones does not wish to see others possess. The right to blackmail is deducible from the general property right in one’s person and knowledge and the right to disseminate or not disseminate that knowledge. How can the right to blackmail be denied?”
Eli Harman
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-27 09:01:00 UTC
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Eli Harman: “An evolutionary didactic method: teach morality by returning impose
Eli Harman: “An evolutionary didactic method: teach morality by returning imposed costs to their imposers. But this method works slowly”.
–“Punishing the wicked forces them to act a bit more morally. But you cannot teach them to desire higher morality without punishing lower morality. And if you punish them for immorality they will reject you moral teachings. So the only solution is to punish them until they learn their own higher morality (or die).”—
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-26 11:15:00 UTC
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UNIVERSAL ANTI LIBERTINE ARGUMENT: (good) It’s not an opinion, it’s a fact: I am
UNIVERSAL ANTI LIBERTINE ARGUMENT:
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It’s not an opinion, it’s a fact: I am a libertarian, and you are a libertine trying to dress-up respectably in libertarian verbal costume. And just as stamping your products with a false weight and measure, or attempting to imitate another consumer brand, or giving an oath you have no intention of fulfilling, lying that you are a libertarian rather than a libertine is not a matter of debate. It us a matter of you lying, in order to avoid paying the high cost of ethical and moral behaviour so that you can export costs for the social order into others.
In other words you are just trying to use a lot of excuses to skate on s debt.
Libertines who claim they are libertarians are just debt evaders. Thieves. Liars. Fools.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-26 08:11:00 UTC
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Help The Disciplined. Let Suffer The Impulsive. Punish the Wicked.– What’s on m
–Help The Disciplined. Let Suffer The Impulsive. Punish the Wicked.–
What’s on my mind? I like to help people, sure. An investment in a business that I can understand, that has a track record, the management team is experienced, moral, and smart, and where others of equal or greater experience have already invested? Sure, if I have money available. An investment in a business that I understand, where I know the management personally, without a track record, but where I can add value, exert influence, and rescue it myself if it gets into trouble? Sure, maybe – if my plate isn’t full. A very, very small investment in something I think is very interesting for personal reasons, but I’m willing and likely to lose the entire investment immediately? Maybe. Helping a close friend or family member recover from a personal medical or legal catastrophe? Sometimes – rarely. Helping someone recover from a lapse in judgement (in this case someone who has a problem with gambling, but most often it’s been drunk driving) – never. Paying a high personal or business cost to punish cheaters, liars, and the selfish? Always. (I don’t tell those stories any longer.)
Help the disciplined, let suffer the impulsive, punish the wicked.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-25 03:04:00 UTC
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ETHICS: THE RIDER SERVES THE ELEPHANT —“Nobody is ever going to invent an ethi
ETHICS: THE RIDER SERVES THE ELEPHANT
—“Nobody is ever going to invent an ethics class that makes people behave ethically after they step out of the classroom. Classes are for riders, and riders are just going to use their new knowledge to serve their elephants more effectively. “— Jonathan Haidt.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-21 20:35:00 UTC