The Power To Enforce Laws That Have Been Discovered
(by Eli Harman) “Make lying illegal and you’ll outlaw the truth. So what other “LAWS” do you want to make? What other power do you want to give to those who have power?” [Y]ou misunderstand. My aim isn’t to give power, but to take it, and to hold it. In specific, the power I seek…
Reducing Our Biological Differences To Rule Of Law
[I] think the tide has changed and that science of HBD has won out over “The Great Boazian Lie”. POSITION Most variation in human behavior is hormonal, normative, and institutional. With the most influential difference in behavior (if not appearance) caused by norms and institutions. In other words, we ‘grow’ differently despite very similar genetic…
Existence: Natural Numbers, Natural Morality, Natural Law
(important concept) [A]ll conflicts are commensurable and decidable, therefore objective morality objectively exists. The counter proposition is that conflcits are not logically decidable by any means. When one says objective (necessary and natural) morality doesn’t exist, what one means instead, is that despite the existence of objective decidability, therefore objective morality, that no group in…
The Three Weapons of Influence and the Evolution of Laws
(Natural Law is an excuse that justifies indo-european / Hanseatic property rights) [T]here are only three means of coercion (weapons of influence), although they can be, and are frequently, used in concert: 1) Force (threatening, punishing, killing) 2) Remuneration (payment/opportunity – boycott/deprivation) 3) Gossip (rallying, shaming, ostracizing) We can engage in force to create property,…
Classical Contractualism and Rule of Law
(law) (definitions) (learning propertariansim) [O]liver Wendel Holms really screwed American and anglo law. The more I study American history the more obvious it becomes that without the many nearby competitors we had faced as Europeans in Europe, that the new continent provided an excuse for the conquerors to take license with the law given the…
Contractual Commons: Law is Discovered, Contracts and Exchanges are Made.
[W]e can produce a market for un-consumable commons using a government just as we produceĀ aĀ market for consumable private goods. But that law and commons are two different things. ButĀ there is no reason whatsoever, that knowing how to construct the common law, government should be capable of producing law. It cannot. Law is discovered, contracts and…
What is the Minimum Basis for the Law Necessary for Sovereignty, Liberty, and Freedom?
(revised and expanded)(worth repeating) (from 2014) THE PROBLEM IS LAW NOT BELIEF [I]tās true thatĀ aggression is immoral, and itās true that for people to rationally cooperateĀ aggression must be illegal. But this is a deceptively incomplete statement, because we all intuit that aggression is a bad thing, but we almost all differ in what one can…
Laws Prohibit Involuntary Transfer. Contracts Exchange Rights.Ā
[I]n writing a new constitution, we can easily deprive the government(producers of commons) and the judiciary(adjudication of law) of the ability to make law. The only laws that can possibly exist are those that prohibit a means of free riding (parasitism/imposing costs). And those laws must be found (discovered), theorized. Conversely, all positive rights can…
The Law Evolves as Science Evolves: By Reaction
[A]ll progress in truth, like all progress in law, is a reaction to progress in imagination, error, bias, deception and propaganda. The reason we could not suppress the left, is because we did not yet understand Truth. Now that we understand Truth, we can criticize, suppress and punish the left as the liars and thieves…
Rule of Law Is Sacred to Western Man
–“our prophet is sacred to us”– [R]ule of law is more sacred than our lives. Rule of law requires we speak, and understand the truth, not myth. The reason for the velocity of western advancement in all fields is that we tell the truth whether it hurts or not, whether it offends or not –…
The Law Must Address The Full Spectrum of Thefts
[T]he manner of theft is immaterial. Either the court provides a means of remedy for a theft, or we are free to use violence to obtain remedy for the theft. The court does not grant what we may do. It holds provision only over those conflicts which it agrees to resolve via property rights. See…
Law’s Perverse Incentives
[R]ule of law, given a homogenous and therefore universal definition of property rights, constitutes a central authority.Ā Just as mathematical operations constitute a central authority. Just as the scientific method constitutes a central authority. Humans must make judgements. A central authority can be reduced to judgements and decidability requires humans to make decisions. Ā If we articulate…
Law Is Synonymous With Morality If All Moral Rules Are Reducible To Property Rights
(important piece) [T]here is no distinction between legal and moral (criminal, ethical, moral) content in disputes. This fallacy is a central problem of the logic of libertarian property theory. The first question is whether we compensate people for defense of property rights (criminal ethical and moral) or expect them to pay those costs even if…
The End Of The Fantasy Of International Law
—“American might allowed the advocates of international law to live in an imaginary world in which their doctrines actually matter. And now that they have finally succeeded in tearing down American strength and ushering in a post-American world, their own world will end. International law is a Potemkin village. A hollow facade upheld by the…
Statism And Corporatism vs Partnerships And The Common Law
[C]an you imagine commercial trade and the market without the abstract entity we call the corporation? Sure you can. The corporation is just a partnership that the government has granted limited liability to in order to increase tax revenues from ventures that are both expensive and high risk. THink of it as off-book investment in…
Natural Law Is An Attempt By The Weak Church To Obscure The Fact That The Source Of Property Is Violence.
[W]e are each born with a capacity for violence. Some more. Some less. During our lives we develop that capacity. Some more some less. Prior to the institution of property, this violence is one of our forms of wealth. We trade our wealth of violence in exchange for the institution of property. If our property…
The Common Law vs Fiat Law – Definitions and Expositions
Today, someone, in an obscure little news group, expressed his libertarian sentiments by saying: “Common law is good enough for all: You must not cause harm, damage or loss, infringe on the rights of others or use mischief in business. To be accused you must have a flesh and blood accuser who can provide proof…