The Natural Law Institute

Month: December 2016

  • Moral Accounting vs General Moral Rules

    MORAL ACCOUNTING IN FACT VS MORAL GENERAL RULES OF APPROXIMATION AND GUESSWORK Curt Doolittle It’s hard to believe but truth is enough. There is certainly room for a new fundamentalism. Natural Law fundamentalism. A violent expansionist fundamentalism more aggressive than islam. John Dow —“I dont see imperialist war as economically viable or morally just. The…

  • Psychological Terminology Was Invented to Lie.

    HINT: ALL PSYCHOLOGICAL TERMS ARE LIES, JUST AS ALL RELIGIOUS TERMS ARE LIES. HUMANS SEEK TO ACQUIRE IN FURTHERANCE OF THEIR REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY. EVERYTHING ELSE IS POSTURING AND NEGOTIATION. The only thing that differs is our reproductive strategy: Gender, Class, Age, Race. Jessa Faya Alexander —“How about: Empaths seek connection, Sociopaths seek power; your results…

  • What’s Your Position on UBI (Welfare 2.0)?

    WHAT’S YOUR POSITION ON UBI (WELFARE)? (I HAVE ONE. 🙂 ) (from elsewhere) 1) The province (Prince Edward Island) will conduct and EXPERIMENT in a rebranded expansion of WELFARE: a subsidy for the poor. It is not a UBI – Universal Basic Income. UBI proposal is that every citizen obtains it, and that taxes offset…

  • Against Fantasy Moral Literature

    Yeah, I really don’t like ‘moral literature’. the rule of deconflation (deflation): use literature for analogies. Use natural law for morality (moral accounting). Use Truth for testimony (science), and avoid ‘moral literature’. Because it was the conflationary content of moral literature that allowed the conservatives of the 19th and 20th centuries to fail to produce…

  • Definitions: Wisdom Literature, Theology, Ideology, Philosophy, Logic, Science, and Law.

    —“ A wisdom literature provides advice for decisions and choices within the limits of a group’s evolutionary strategy within a group using that evolutionary strategy. A Theology provides an authoritarian wisdom literature, by false promise and false threat, conflating wisdom and law between competing group evolutionary strategies. An ideology serves to inspire individuals to action under…

  • A Short Course In Incremental Suppression

    THE MEANING OF INCREMENTAL SUPPRESSION (important concept)(propertarianism core) (worth repeating often) Causal Chain: Sovereignty > Natural Law > Incremental Suppression > Markets WHAT IS INCREMENTAL SUPPRESSION? organic common law as a means of incrementally suppressing free riding   1) Humans acquire at cost and defend what they have acquired at cost. 2) cooperation is disproportionately…

  • The Why of Shrinking Brains

    SHRINKING BRAIN SIZE, PAEDOMORPHIC SELECTION, OR FASTER REPRODUCTION OF THE UNDERCLASSES? http://www.ancient-origins.net/…/scientists-are-alarmed-shr… Given that (a) yes, brain size makes a demonstrable difference in current human intelligence. And given that (b) it’s unclear whether our brains are getting smaller or whether more of the smaller humans are breeding in cities. (which appears to be the case…

  • Rules are for people who need them. And not people who serve customers.

    You don’t teach people rules unless they cannot reason. If they can reason you teach them to do what is right. If they cannot reason, and do what is right, then they should never see a customer. Ever. Whenever you encounter policy or rules rather than reasons you know two things: (a) the person is…

  • Correcting Aristotle’s Categories of Philosophy

    The Law of Nature “Correcting Aristotle on Categories of Philosophy” Physical Laws (Transformation) – THE NECESSARY Physics: Astronomy, Chemistry, Biology, Sentience, Engineering, Mathematics Law of Man (properties of man) (Action) – THE POSSIBLE Acquisition, perception, memory, psychology, sociology Natural Law – Cooperation – THE GOOD Ethics, morality, law, economics Law of Testimony – THE TRUE…

  • Curt: Are You An Austrian? Well…Yes, But Let’s Clarify that a bit.

    CURT: ARE YOU AN AUSTRIAN? ( New Austrian School of Economics, Austrian Economics Rules ) I am Austrian in the sense that the Austrian program (Menger) sought to discover social science (Truth), the Chicago program sought to discover rule of law (bending truth), and the saltwater school sought to discover the limits of discretion (lying).…

  • Refutation of a Criticism (sigh)

    Some Nitwit (“ancap_outlaw”) attempts to ‘refute’ me here. RESPONSE: Do you understand how much of a waste of my time it is to counter this kind of sophomoric drivel? How it’s a moral imperative that I don’t fail to pick up the mess you’re making in the informational commons? How you are forcing me to…

  • Novel Concepts in Propertarianism (by SingluarDiscourse)

    OCTOBER 22, 2016 ~ 21TH CENTURY SCHIZOID MAN For those of you that do not know anything about it, Propertarianism refers to a framework that includes Testimonialism (epistemology), Law (strict construction), Ethics (demonstrated property) and Politics (market government). Testimonialism Testimonial Truth refers to existentially possible truth, which comes in the form of operationally described testimony,…

  • The Anti-Rothbardian Libertarian Canon

  • Q&A: Curt, Where is a Virtue Ethics?

  • How Humans Adapt More Than Evolve

  • Aristocracy Creates Sovereignty

    —“Aristocracy creates sovereignty*: the prevention of monopoly by the enforcement of markets.”— James Augustus Berens

  • Bearing an Imposed Cost of the Day: Refuting A Common Libertarian Critic

    November 27, 2016 ¡ by Liberty Owl ¡ in Uncategorized ¡ Leave a comment I’ve been waiting to debunk the cynical ideology created by Curt Doolittle, propertarianism. Libertarianism is an ideology. Propertarianism is a philosophy containing a formal logic, resulting from scientific criticism, for the purpose of extending the common, natural, judge discovered law, in…