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(FB 1552522887 Timestamp) —“@Curt Doolittle do you not know what a Value-Added Tax is?”— Yes. It is a compound tax (many points of taxation), and a variation on the sales tax (one point of taxation), and like sales taxes is one of the most regressive taxes known to man, particularly because of the distortion it…
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(FB 1552483548 Timestamp) The number of people who use the word proof without knowing ‘proof of what?’ The number of people who use the term NAP without knowing the answer to “aggression against what?’ The number of people who use the term ‘moral’ without knowing the answer to ‘define moral’. These are term of convention…
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(FB 1552425769 Timestamp) most of us eventually claim we can normalize to ones and zeroes. but not enough of us realize that we can normalize to human faculties.
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(FB 1552425604 Timestamp) We would produce a world of much better thinkers if we taught normalization after venn diagrams. And asked people to normalize various statements. sets are trivial. normalizations falsify the problem of sets
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(FB 1552425214 Timestamp) Teaching people GRAMMAR so that they can DECODE speech is not the same as teaching people to speak exclusively in decoded speech. We have been teaching people grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy since the medieval era. Written speech is more rigorous than spoken. contract language more rigorous than written.…
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(FB 1552423352 Timestamp) MERGED —“We used a new theory of the biological basis of the Big Five personality traits to generate hypotheses about the association of each trait with the volume of different brain regions. Controlling for age, sex, and whole-brain volume, results from structural magnetic resonance imaging of 116 healthy adults supported our hypotheses…
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(FB 1552419481 Timestamp) All personality systems are trying to describe underlying biological traits expressible as physical differences in brain structure and production. All of them are ‘partly correct’. http://www.psychologycharts.com/big-five-personality-traits.html
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(FB 1552406197 Timestamp) The possible: Engineering The good: Philosophy The true: Law
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(FB 1552399444 Timestamp) There are two intersecting rules: 1. Kin selection 2. Reciprocity within the limits of proportionality. This explains his list of ten common outputs.
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(FB 1552398589 Timestamp) SHIPPING FROM OUR SHOP —“Hi! I’m wondering if the shop at propertarianism.com delivers to [my country]? I’d like to order the 3” dress patch but the shop doesn’t find the cost of shipping to [my country].”— A Friend We have just launched. The shop is a placeholder, and not ‘live’ – and…
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(FB 1552609304 Timestamp) —“My five year old understand reciprocity.Next I’m going to teach him property in toto. Then skull pyramid building.”—Noah J Revoy
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1552608800 Timestamp) APPARENTLY TO BE CLASSIFIED AS A PHILOSOPHER YOU MUST MAKE YOUR IDEA ACCESSIBLE TO 5 YEAR OLDS —“Curt is not a philosopher by any means. He cannot even understand his own Confusion in order to boil it down into a simple manner in which common folk can grasp it instantly. If you…
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(FB 1552607161 Timestamp) MORE by James Fox Higgins (gold) I think you’ve misunderstood the purpose of propertarianism (as I had for a long time, and as many do). Curt is attempting to codify in language the natural law (the law of empirical science) first and foremost. Secondly, he’s writing a constitution that aligns with his…
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(FB 1552604252 Timestamp) —“Force should be asserted early and often to insure the expected treatment that you demand of others and conversely what others expect of you.”—Jarrod Marma
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(FB 1552604195 Timestamp) IT’S DECISION TIME! —“If you believe in the NAP and you want to be morally consistent you had better get studying Propertarianism and learn about reciprocity because you can’t be NAP compliant and lack in reciprocity. My objective is to make people admit that the NAP is their excuse to do nothing…
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(FB 1552604083 Timestamp) ^I can only speak comfortably with James about christianity because he doesn’t try to weasel me into any position. Most of the time, when christians get me into a discourse they try to make me justify a falsehood. this forces me to retaliate. And I don’t like it. Because I have to…
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(FB 1552602014 Timestamp) —“I’ve been reframing it as “any violation of reciprocity is a violation of the NAP.” You can’t claim your actions are NAP compliant if you are not reciprocal in your actions. Imposing costs and free riding is a violation of the NAP. This is NOT the typical interpretation of the NAP. Part…
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(FB 1552601824 Timestamp) THE FIRST MISTAKE —“People start with violence off the table. Even deep thinkers (perhaps especially thinkers).”— Brandon Hayes