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A Challenge – Only Hoppe Can Debate Me
—“First they ignore you , then they ridicule you, then they fight you then you win.”— [O]nly a dishonest man would recommend people not read something, rather than attack the central argument of the author. But then, dishonesty is central to the ghetto ethic, is it not? If you do not understand the central arguments,…
More Mises Institute Reaction to Propertarianism 😉
I don’t remember who in the thread above wondered aloud whether something Curt Doolittle wrote was a joke or not. This is generally a problem with reading what Curt Doolittle writes. It is one of the reasons I recommend not trying to read him. He has been captured by a mania for categorization, and the…
The Only Poor Honest White People Left On Earth
[I]n Ukraine, we have the only poor, honest, white people left on the planet. The only thing we lack is a justice system. The only difference between Ukraine and Canada is that Canada has America instead of Russia as the most influential political neighbor. We just need anglo-american jurisprudence and Ukraine will not only the…
Politicians are Entrepreneurs of Externality
Guest post by Michael Philip [D]emocracy is supposed to make things better, by making all voters part of the political bargaining process. The problem with that is much of the art of representative politics is using the coercive power of the state to provide benefits to folk who do notice (and care and effectively politically…
My Position on Race
[I] don’t care about your race. I care about your IQ, impulsivity, aggression, time preference, degree of suppression of free riding, and total integration into every possible aspect of the culture. You are not going to find anyone, me included, caring about the immigration of smart, un-impulsive, non-aggressive, low time preference (long term thinking), individuals.…
The Love Of Heady Murder
[S]top thinking statists are well intentioned fools who can be persuaded by reason. There isn’t any evidence of it. The evidence is overwhelmingly the opposite. We know libertarians are moral specialists – morally blind to certain parts of the spectrum. And if you’re at least mildly praxeologically inclined it’s obvious that it’s not in the…
On Negative Sums
– Guest Post by Eli Harman – November 22nd, at 7:04am [T]he allegation is often made (by libertarian anarchists) that what states do is fundamentally incalculable, but that it is always negative sum. In other words, we cannot know the absolute value of any state or state policy, but we can be certain about its sign.…
The Liar’s Mantra
-Guest Post By James Santagata “How dare you attempt to _HIDE_ your ‘Hate’ behind Science!” – The Liar’s Mantra I “How dare you attempt to _EXPLAIN_ your ‘Hate’ with Science!” – The Liar’s Mantra II “How dare you attempt to _JUSTIFY_ your ‘Hate’ with Science!” – The Liar’s Mantra III “How dare you attempt to…
Existential Numbers for Existential Creatures
—“The primary concern of mathematics is numbers, and this means the positive integers. . . . In the words of Kronecker, the positive integers were created by God. Kronecker would have expressed it even better if he had said that the positive integers were created by God for the benefit of man (and other finite…
The Mises Institute’s Cult Of Language
[T]he way the Jewish people held sway over their members, is the same way that all religious cults hold sway: there are mandatory beliefs, mandatory language, and mandatory rituals that one must follow or be ostracized. And as long as the benefits of the group are sufficient that threat of ostracization provides incentive to hold…
The Search For Precision and Parsimony
[P]opper would have been better off saying that he was advising us on the search for precision and parsimony, by making truthful statements along the way, rather than coopting the word ‘truth’ from his spiritual background. We are not investigating the mind of god. Nothing is obscured from us. Nature doesn’t try to lie to…
A Different Unification: A Bold Challenge
—“Very possibly classical mathematics will cease to exist as an independent discipline”— (Bishop, 1970, p. 54) [I] can translate this into something scary: “Very possibly, classical philosophy and science will cease to exist as independent disciplines.” That is precisely what I am up to – although I didn’t know it when I started. 🙂
Why Do We Justify Our Arguments?
[W]E JUSTIFY:(a) To convey meaning – to provide a path by which we incrementally transfer properties by analogy to achieve conclusions.(b) To convey honesty – to demonstrate that we are telling the truth to the best of our understanding.(c) To demonstrate the we adhere to NORMS in our reasoning – that we have not violated…
Liberarian Requirements for Legal Decidability
[W]e can construct libertarianism as a (a) sentimental, (b) ratio-moral, or (c) ratio-legal, or (d) legal-empirical framework – a body of interdependent arguments. But if we rely upon sentimental, and ratio-moral construction, then statements are not decidable, and opinion still influences the decision – we leave open not only the possibility of, but the preference…
Propertarianism: Intellectual Disinfectant
[H]urry! Today, you can cleanse yourself of Anglo enlightenment universalism, German Rationalism, Jewish Pseudoscience, Christian Superstition, and whatever other other intellectual disease the ails you. (Members of the Cathedral, Islamism and Buddhism may require higher doses and longer treatment periods.) Save humanity from all variants of the Levantine Plague. Sorry. No discounts. It’s against our…