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Raise The Cost Of Tyranny Through Violence
[T]he only way to obtain liberty is to raise the cost of tyranny, just as the only means of constructing property is to raise the cost of parasitism. We can raise costs by a) gossip – meaning shaming, b) economic ostracization – meaning boycott, and c) violence. a) does not work for obvious reasons –…
The First Question of Ethics Is The Rationality of Cooperation
[T]he first question of ethics is why do I not kill you and take your stuff. The ritual of setting aside this question in order to enter into debate has been lost through the ages. And common interest conveniently assumed as the starting point, rather than the necessity of choice between cooperation, parasitism, and predation.…
If We Punish Lying As Aggression Then That is Enough
—“We have to punish liars. Suppressing lying the way we suppress aggression is probably enough.”— Roman Skaskiw
Race Is A Problem Of Distributions
[I] hate discussion of race really, but since my position is somewhat novel, I feel the need to vent my frustration at what I see as a the result of a series of mainstream errors that attempt to justify democracy by criticizing the natural and unavoidable behavior of man. Instead of truthfully addressing the…
On Marriage
[I] won’t go into the full analytical treatment of it here, but under Propertarian analysis, marriage is a name for a corporation for the purposes of: (a) reciprocal insurance of participant; and in modernity;(b) power of attorney over one another, in the case of the incapacity of the other; (c) a political requirement that one…
The Only Means Of Eliminating The State And Constructing Liberty
(north sea libertarian liberty) [T]he only way to eliminate the state, is to eliminate demand for the state. To eliminate demand for the state, we must construct institutions that provide the services of the state, without the free riding endemic to the state. The state provides just these services: …1) an allocation of property and…
What Dictionary Does Os X’s Built In Dictionary Get Words From, And How Can I Report Errors In It?
Quick Tip: Bulk Add Words to Your Mac’s Spell Check Dictionary – Tuts+ Computer Skills Tutorial https://www.quora.com/What-dictionary-does-OS-Xs-built-in-dictionary-get-words-from-and-how-can-I-report-errors-in-it
Against The Boomer-Academy’s Sale of Indulgences – A Charter for The New Reformation
(good arguments for your use.) Myths About Attending College Debunked [C]hristopher, This self-serving post is disingenuous at best. As far as we know, right now, students learn almost nothing in university that is used in life. University largely performs a filtering and indoctrination service. So students are filtered out of the workforce by extremely expensive…
Operationalism as Criticism: Repairing The Errors of 20th Century Philosophy
[I] have chosen the term ‘Operationalism’ over Praxeology, Actions, Intuitionism, and Operationism because it seems most intuitive given our language’s use of ‘Mathematical operations”, and “Human Actions”. Ray (who is very helpful) does the logical thing which is treat critics of critical rationalism’s early errors as behind-the-times or ignorant, while himself making the same mistake.…
Sophisticated People In The World Are Not Necessarily Stupid or Selfish
[T]he USA’s budget consists roughly of 1/3 defense, 1/3 mandatory payments (Social Security and Medicaid) and 1/3 discretionary payments (everything else). We finance 1/3 (the military), and inflate it away. The world pays for our military through indirect taxation on the price of oil bought in dollars. This was the invention that the Nixon administration…
My Criticism Of David Miller Is A Very Limited One
—“What, if i may ask, is your criticism of Miller? it would be interesting to see if it holds water”— Ayelam Valentine Agaliba(reposted for archival purposes) [V]al, I don’t disagree with Miller’s multiple “standards of justice”. I just would state it very differently, as necessities, demands, incentives, and evolutionary strategies. I mean, I say the…
Pinker’s Criticism of Group/Multi-level Selection
[F]irst, both Pinker and Haidt are making the enlightenment error of equality of individuals, and of individualism instead of a population of man as a division of intertemporal knowledge and labor. (See my video on the subject.) We evolve first under this inter-temporal distribution of biases, and second under cultural adaptation, and third under everything…
The Human Operating System
[S]omething I wrote yesterday helped me clarify my argument on human anti-equalitarianism. – First: with very slight hormonal variation, we are able to reproduce in a distribution (division) of inter-temporal perception, cognition, knowledge and labor. And, that the initial division of perception cognition knowledge and labor began as a reproductive division of labor. – Second,…
The Decline in the USA’s Military Power Is Not A Problem for Americans – Only For Bureaucrats
THE DECLINE IN USA’S MILITARY POWER IS NOT A PROBLEM FOR AMERICANS – ONLY FOR BUREAUCRATS(from elsewhere)http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/03/31/396604082/dozens-of-countries-join-china-backed-bank-opposed-by-washington [T]he USA pays for its military through the sale of petro-dollars and debt that it inflates away. It was this technique started under Nixon that allowed the USA to economically bankrupt the soviets via military competition. (Something easy…
Brad DeLong and Paul Krugman and Their Anti-Science Economics
RE: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/friedman-ideas-great-recession-by-j–bradford-delong-2015-03[B]rad, I would counter, as I have since 2009, that you and your intellectual kindred fail to grasp that politics is moral not merely empirical. That humans are tribalists not universalists. That universalism suits the interests of the academy’s revenues, but not the interests of all polities. The human morality is roughly translatable into a…
What Are The Pros And Cons Of Us Humans Building A Global Utopia?
We are all competing. Economic competition merely allows us to compete toward mutually productive ends, instead of randomly destructive ends. A utopia is only desirable by the losers. https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-us-humans-building-a-global-Utopia
What Is Peak Capitalism?
A leftist dogma. A new name for regurgitated Marx. And just as fallacious as his. The entire world has adopted capitalism. Because innovation, adaptation, production, distribution and trade are not possible without it. The current argument is that low trust, traditional-family, and tribal-family polities, particularly those that practice cousin-marriage, cannot operate without a dominant state,…
Do Americans Wear Outdoor-shoes Inside Their Homes As Portrayed In Tellies/movies? Don’t They Maintain Indoor Slippers/shoes Like Asians Or Others?
Suburban America is an incredibly CLEAN place to live. Especially because many people drive a LOT and walk very little. So, for many Americans, depending upon where you live, it can be seen as ‘village’ behavior – meaning that you’re used to being dirty. Or City behavior (meaning the same). And it can be pretentious…
Could Feudalism Be Recreated As A System More Beneficial To The Working Classes Than Capitalism?
We may be wealthier in all respects, but there is little difference between mandatory labor and mandatory taxation. Mandatory taxation is more efficient than mandatory labor. The Feudal holding today (USA) may be larger than the feudal holding in the medieval era, but just try to leave America for another country and see what the…
The Mirror View of Feminism: The Destruction of the Compromise
[A]nd women have successfully voted to destroy western property rights in every election after the first generation of women voters. Today almost all elections are decided by women, and principally by unmarried women and single mothers (see Pew). Without women voters we would never have moved to the left, destroyed the constitution, destroyed the family…