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The Virtue Of Critical Rationalism
[T]he chief personal virtue that Critical Rationalism bestows upon you, is the understanding that you never know the ultimate truth, you merely know enough to take action given the knowledge at your disposal, and only by our failures do we learn more about the truth, than we knew before – confirmation may be efficient and…
Libertines Masquerading As Libertarians
[B]lock is the poster child for unethical, immoral, ghetto libertarianism, and he hurts the movement every time he opens his mouth. Rockwell is barman of the lunatic fringe, and Kinsella the bouncer of ignorance and dogmatism — they’re the three stooges of the red-flag rothbardian conspiracy to cause the failure of the western liberty movement…
Review: Misreading Popper
REVIEW OF POPPER BY WAY OF REVIEW OF ‘MISREADING POPPER’. Great book. Got a chance to read it this morning. THOUGHTS [I] do not know if it is fair to say that people misread popper, or that popper failed to make his case, but that he failed to reduce his ideas to general assertions that…
Question: "What are your concepts of Aristocratic, Protestant, Parasitism, Free Riding, and Immoral?"
QUESTION “Hi Curt, I’ve been reading your posts & your blog. I find it really interesting since I share a similar opinion about Rothbardian ethics. However, from your articles&posts, it is difficult to understand what is your concept of “Aristocratic”? Why is it “protestant”? I find it rather unnecessary to link the last one to…
Question: “What are your concepts of Aristocratic, Protestant, Parasitism, Free Riding, and Immoral?”
QUESTION “Hi Curt, I’ve been reading your posts & your blog. I find it really interesting since I share a similar opinion about Rothbardian ethics. However, from your articles&posts, it is difficult to understand what is your concept of “Aristocratic”? Why is it “protestant”? I find it rather unnecessary to link the last one to…
Why Does The Belief Exist That The Usa Is A Conservative Country?
Asking who wins versus the vote distribution is confusing you. Our votes are polarized between right and left, and must be since these two views are in direct competition. If american had a european mulit-party parliamentary system rather than just two choices our government would be very different, and it is likely that compromises would…
What Do American Girls Think About Chinese Guys?
Over the past decade we have collected amazing data from dating sites, and it confirms most of our old fashioned assumptions. In the case of asian males, while it depends upon which race of Americans we’re talking about, ethnically Asian men are slightly less desirable, and ethnically Asian women are slightly more desirable. Whites and…
How Is Anarchism A Functional System For A Country?
Anarchism depends upon rule of law, where the only law is private property, as the only formal institution of social order. As far as we know this is the minimum requirement for the formation of a division of labor, trade, and contracts, and therefore an economy, wherein people possess a peaceful means for the resolution…
How Would You Respond In This Version Of The “ultimate Game,” A Famous Economic Experiment?
Half. The problem with this particular ‘dilemma’ is that the amount is enough to split. RESPONSEThe question is unclear that the beneficial idea would somehow be hidden. For those of us who work in this field, we know that it is impossible to promote than intentionally hide such an idea. Like most moral dilemma questions,…
It's Up To Rothbardians To Demonstrate That They Are Not Morally Blind…
… advocates of a parasitic, immoral, unethical ideology, rejected by all but a dysfunctional minority; and by their profligate advocacy of an unethical, immoral, parasitic, regressive, and therefore politically impossible criteria for a voluntary social order, have impeded and harmed the preservation and expansion of our liberty. [W]e cannot look to the ghetto – a…
It’s Up To Rothbardians To Demonstrate That They Are Not Morally Blind…
… advocates of a parasitic, immoral, unethical ideology, rejected by all but a dysfunctional minority; and by their profligate advocacy of an unethical, immoral, parasitic, regressive, and therefore politically impossible criteria for a voluntary social order, have impeded and harmed the preservation and expansion of our liberty. [W]e cannot look to the ghetto – a…
The Culture That Suppresses All Discounts, All Free-Riding, All Involuntary Transfer, All Unethical And Immoral Action
[W]e are the only people to have done it. Because we are the only people who out-bred, and broke the extended family, creating universalism. The problem is that once we abandon nationalism, our out-bred high trust universalism rapidly became a weakness that has led to our conquest by older more primitive societies. Return To Aristocracy…
Curing Libertarian Illiteracy
[T]he cure to libertarian illiteracy is to keep up on research, rely on science, and not empty verbalism of continental and cosmopolitan rationalism. (See Axelrod – Cooperation. See Fukuyama – Trust. See Todd ‘Explanation of Ideology; The Invention of Europe. See Hannan – The Invention of Liberty. See Kahnemann. See RIdley. See Pinker. See Haidt:…
On The Appropriation Of Names
WE LOST ‘LIBERAL’ TO THE SOCIALISTS. WE LOST ‘LIBERTARIAN’ TO ROTHBARDIAN GHETTO IMMORALITY. I chose Propertarianism, registered the names, and trademarked it for my own use. Ironic really. The term wasn’t used much. And only as ‘propertarian’ – a categorical pejorative on libertarians.
The Moral Deception Of The Ethical Standard Of 'Psychic Benefit'
(worth repeating) [R]othbardian ethics only require ‘satisfaction’ or ‘psychic benefit’ or ‘voluntary cooperation in absence of the threat of violence. This is acceptable ethical criteria for exchange between states. However in-group ethical and moral codes evolved to prohibit free riding and parasitism. Such that the standard of ethical exchange is not ‘psychic’ alone, and therefore…
The Moral Deception Of The Ethical Standard Of ‘Psychic Benefit’
(worth repeating) [R]othbardian ethics only require ‘satisfaction’ or ‘psychic benefit’ or ‘voluntary cooperation in absence of the threat of violence. This is acceptable ethical criteria for exchange between states. However in-group ethical and moral codes evolved to prohibit free riding and parasitism. Such that the standard of ethical exchange is not ‘psychic’ alone, and therefore…
What's The Difference
Q: WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE? (ethics) a) Do unto others as you would have done unto you. VS Do not to others that which you would not have done to you. b) Freedom to do what one wishes as long as he harms no other. VS Freedom from constraint by others on what one can…
What’s The Difference
Q: WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE? (ethics) a) Do unto others as you would have done unto you. VS Do not to others that which you would not have done to you. b) Freedom to do what one wishes as long as he harms no other. VS Freedom from constraint by others on what one can…
Rothbardian Ethics Are Immoral, Parasitic And The Reason For The Failure Of Libertarianism.
–“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win.”– [A]ristocratic Egalitarianism requires that one fight for the liberty of those who would also have it. Proficiency at war, both verbal and physical, is a requirement for membership. Only Aristocratic Egalitarians are free. Everyone else is merely given freedom by…
Spinoza: Philosophers Should Have A Trade
[I]’m not a big fan of Spinoza’s ideas, but am very much a fan both his writing style and his work ethic. Spinoza earned his living as a lens-grinder. He wrote his extremely parsimonious book, taking most of his life, from a musty apartment. It’s what, 200 pages long? A brutally concise work of numbered…