Eli on Love (Great Post)
[I] think that love (noun) refers to the condition in which one’s happiness depends on another’s. And therefore to love (verb) must mean to act in a manner consistent with this condition prevailing. If we adopt these as our definitions, then it becomes obvious, upon cursory examination, that we can never accurately describe actual “love”…
WHAT CONSTITUTES A FACT? OUTING AMATEURS AS FREE RIDERS
—-“As if Jim could answer that without first RECOGNIZING the FACT of your question.”—- [T]his is an interesting example, so lets use it. You observe the text, determine the question, can make sense of it, and therefore determine it exists. This is a very simple statement. But the reason it is a fact is that…
Debating Useful Idiots of All Stripes
(snippet of debate we can learn from) [I] almost always operate under the assumption that genes do the talking and that the rational mind needs assistance in overcoming the influence of accumulated cognitive bias in favor of one’s reproductive strategy. So I suspect you are just the usual victim of WISHFUL THINKING and need rescuing.…
Naturalism, Aristotelianism, Christianity, Stoicism and now Buddhism
[H]ere is the thing about Christianity: the extension of kinship love to non-kin and the extirpation of hatred from the human heart. Our people have lower sensitivity to (disgust for) out-groups anyway. But between our genetic bias as cold weather folk, christianity, chivalry, and the prohibition on cousin marriage, the west has evolved rapidly a…
Responding to “Aggressively Unreadable Doolittle”
RE: http://selfadoration.com/for-luke-williams-heres-a-com…/8123 —“or the aggressively-unreadable Doolittle.”—- You know, I want to say ‘ouch’ but, I have to just own it. lol. On the other hand have you read Hegel? Wittgenstein? Heidegger? Philosophy is a technical specialty like any niche technical discipline. The difference is that we are often trying to reorder existing human conceptual categories,…
Strategy: If We Eliminate The Parasitic, Only Liberty Remains
(worth repeating) [R]emove all choice, so that only Liberty Remains, just as by removing all choice, only the market remains. “If we make it just as difficult to deceive, lie cheat, free ride and privatize as we have made it difficult to steal physical property, then liberty will result from it. Because all those things…
The Propertarian (Doolittle) Scientific Political Chart
[T]he only meaningful notion of ‘right’ and ‘left’ that I can state existentially is k-selection (right/masculine ), vs r-selection (left/feminine-universal) since these are opposing strategies with libertarianism (voluntary cooperation) achievable as a compromise between the two strategies. (that is how I see we minority libertarians: providing a compromise between the genders through voluntary cooperation). As…
Western Philosophical Hierarchy
===METAPHYSICAL=== ……..Heroism (demonstrated excellence) ……..Science (truth) …… ……..Naturalism (reality) ……. Natural Law (sovereignty) ===POLITICAL=== ……..Consent, Contract, Republican(Meritocratic) Commons ……..Testimony, Common Law, Judge, Jury ===MORAL==== ……..Christianity (love/trust bias) ===SPIRITUAL/AESTHETIC=== …….Love of nature (animism/paganism) ===PERSONAL=== Buddhism……….Stoicism Yoga…………..sport Nurturing………Craftsmanship. Spiritual ……..Political (mental?) Experiential……Actionable Feminine …….. Masculine I haven’t got the metaphysical right because they overlap and it is…
Bienes Contractuales: La ley se descubre y los contratos e intercambios se llevan a cabo
Articúlo original de Curt Doolittle:http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/07/20/law-exists-but-must-be-found-government-cannot-construct-it/ Traducido por Alberto R. Zambrano U. [N]osotros podemos producir un mercados para bienes que no son consumibles así com podemos producir un mercado para bienes privados consumibles. pero esa ley y esos bienes son dos cosas distintas. Pero no hay razón alguna, que sabiendo cómo construir las leyes del derecho…
Las leyes prohiben la transferencia involuntaria. Los contratos intercambian derechos
Artículo original de Curt Doolittle Traducido por Alberto R. Zambrano U. [C]uando se redacta una nueva constitución, nosotros fácilmente podemos privar al gobierno (que es un productor de bienes comunes) y al poder judicial (encargado en la adjudicación y administración de la ley) de la habilidad de poder legislar.- Las únicas leyes que pueden existir…
Utility, Truth and Consequence – An Important Lesson
[T]rue enough to do what? That’s the question. ***Your opinion is only enough to determine your action, but it is not enough to claim it is ‘true’, When you claim something is true, at that point you promise to others it is true enough to determine their action. And by that claim expose them to…
Restoring the Dimension (Property) of Action to Philosophy
[T]he loss of the dimension of action from philosophy due to the invasion of platonism and religion is the reason for two millennia of limited progress. I suspect at first this was a linguistic limitation of early languages, combined with the history of animism, plus … one thing that is obvious to me… that operational…
Faith in Priors is not Rational, it’s Instinctual
[F]AITH IN PRIORS IS NOT RATIONAL ITS INSTINCTUAL —“The problem with this moral and immoral discourse is the following: I act merely as someone defending the non-aggression principle which I, to use a colloquialism, regard as sacrosanct.”—Anonymous So you mean then that you are arguing from faith? Is that what you’re basing your definition of…
It’s Moral to Seek to Understand.
***A moral man asks questions until he understands. He seeks to understand. An immoral man imposes costs upon others in the hope the others cannot pay those costs, rather than seek the truth. As such cost-imposers are liars and cheats, and thieves.***
Are There Good Reasons To Argue with Amateurs? Sure.
[T]here are two reasons to conduct arguments in forums, or their long history of ancestors back to Newsgroups, CompuServe, bulletin boards, and newsletters. First is to learn how to defeat BAD arguments made by amateurs. Primarily because the mass of political voters in this world are amateurs. Second to understand the psychology of those who…
Very Short Introduction to the Epistemology of Testimonialism
[B]RIEF DISCUSSION OF THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF TESTIMONIALISM 1) All non-tautological statements are incomplete, and as such no non-trivial premises are complete. Therefore all statements consist of nothing more than theoretical promises contingent upon their survival of criticism. 2) We can systematically criticize each dimension of every statement for identity, internal consistency, existential possibility, external correspondence,…
Santagata: Love and Understanding
[L]ove; I love my family… Which doesn’t mean I hate yours. It means I understand why you love yours. I love my nation… Which doesn’t mean I hate yours. It means I understand why you love yours. I love my DNA, my genes, my race… Which doesn’t mean I hate yours. It means I understand…
Bits on Self Awareness
[O]nce you get to the point where you recognize genes make us puppets on their behalf, and that all speech is justification and negotiation, and that we have limited means of coercion of one another, then human behavior as well as all human history is easily comprehended. Empathy works somewhat to overload us. Suggestion can…
Compare Kinsella’s (Incomplete) NAP/(Justificationary)IVP, with Doolittle’s (Complete) NAP/ (Empirical) Demonstrated Property
[C]OMPARE KINSELLA’S ARGUMENT WITH DOOLITTLE’S KINSELLA ON THE TOM WOODS SHOW Many admissions of incompleteness, but failure to complete it. DOOLITTLE ON PROPERTARIANISM This is what completeness looks like. ( I love that Woods is honest. )
NEW VIDEO: Propertarianism – Correcting and Completing Non Aggression
“QUESTION:” CURT: DO YOU HAVE A SIMPLE VERSION OF THIS TALK?” Sure. Or, I’ll try hard. wink emoticon 1) The “NAP” that only limits physical aggression leaves open “trickery and deceit’ as well as ‘free riding parasitism’ and ‘conspiracy’. And by leaving open these forms of aggression, the NAP cannot produce property rights, an anarchic…
Eli Harman on Our (Women’s) Lack Of Ethno-Centrism
—“And another feature of Western peoples is low ethnocentrism, because normative outbreeding and the prohibition on inbreeding mixed up the tribes and clans, creating homogenous outbred populations that can universalize kinship trust. This also was a competitive advanatage. White people form the largest ingroups. But we have a tendency to simply assume everyone is ingroup,…
Santagata on The Great Economic Deceit
—“Under the machinations of Keynesian economists, Americans have been turned into a nation of share croppers living with the illusion that they are getting ahead with economic “freedom” just around the corner; as they fall deeper and deeper into debt with each planting and harvest no matter how bountiful.”— James Santagata
Dear Justices. A Truth. A Warning. A Promise.
[D]EAR JUSTICES. A TRUTH. A WARNING. A PROMISE. ***Our American Judges have been turned into Nazi Officers with ‘its the law’ a hollow substitute for ‘I was following orders’.*** ***There is only one law: productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange, free of imposition of costs by externality, on that which another has obtained by either…
Proving Communal Warfare Among Hunter Gatherers (Paper)
(as always, not only the article, but the citations for this article are priceless. Which is why I have saved it here.) [P]roving communal warfare among hunter-gatherers: The quasi-rousseauan error Keywords: hunter-gatherer warfare;Rousseauism;Australian Aborigines;naturally evolved predispositions for violence and peace Abstract Was human fighting always there, as old as our species? Or is it a…
How Would Our Lives Change Under Truthfulness?
(note that this is a Socratic Dialog and Edward is playing devil’s advocate in order to force me to articulate the ideas. I dont want to miscast his intentions. 🙂 ) [Q]UESTION: How would our lives change if pseudoscience were prohibited from the commons? Give the government the power to define and prohibit pseudoscience. Rushton…