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The BHL’s rely on the classical liberal Psychological Arguments as justification for the moral sentiments of care-taking, and grab ideas from everyone else. Good marketing but no arguments as yet other than psychological (moral). The Cato Institute group relies more on a mix of historical, moral and legal arguments. But we can also classify them…

My definition of Truth under Scientific Realism, is that any notion of Truth can only exist if we say it is a) Performative, consisting of b) Correspondence and c) Coherence (internal consistency). And that all other statements are analogies to some subset of these properties. And that d) formal theories of truth (the ‘logics’) are…

I own guns for the single purpose of resisting the government when necessary. I believe, without question, that it is a moral responsibility of every man to do the same.  I view those who do not do so, as free riders on the labor of others who make such moral commitments. https://www.quora.com/Why-do-so-many-people-in-the-USA-have-guns

That it was invented for war. (It was) That it led to the decline of rail (it did) That it led to the rise of trucks (it did) That it led to the expansion of automotive use. (It did) That it eliminated demand for public transportation (it did) That it contributed to sprawl (it did)…

I WILL DO MY BEST. BUT YOU MIGHT NOT LIKE THE ANSWER. The question poses a false dichotomy.  A socialist economy is logically impossible, and demonstrably impossible since the socialist method of production provides neither incentives, nor the pricing system necessary for the competitive satisfaction of wants and needs. We don’t have a choice of…

HERE IS THE REASON (WITH FULL KNOWLEDGE OF THE STICKS AND STONES IT WILL GENERATE) I’m going to give the answer that is impolitic and true.  Mostly because I’m kind of curious how people  interpret it.  Just a draft. MONEY, MEDIA AND WHITE GUILT FOR WW2That’s the answer.  But why? GROUP EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGYIf your gene…

Here is the debate as I understand it: (And forgive me if I mix language from multiple domains please.) The Intuitionists argue that all mathematics can be stated operationally, and as such, for all intents and purposes, all mathematical symbols other than the glyphs we use to name the natural numbers, are nothing more than…

(draft of the correction of a priorism in economics, politics and ethics.) (important) Exchanges are unique. Every one. Marginalism alone renders all exchanges unique – even before we consider the uneven distribution of resources and ability, and the vagaries of nature, and the shifting wants and signals of human beings. As such, each exchange is…

(profound) From Property to Private Property, High Trust Private Property, and Anarchic High Trust Private Property. 1. Community Property is the result of the partial suppression of discounts 1.1 Violence (asymmetry of force) 2. Private property is the result of additional suppression of indirect discounts 2.1 Theft (asymmetry of control) 2.2 Fraud (false information) 2.3…

  “Mises’s contention came in setting the context for Human Action by explaining why people have had such a hard time accepting the validity of (Austrian) economics as a field of knowledge–it does not fit in with anything else.” – Konrad Love you man, but I want to clean this up a bit. And I…

Praxeological analysis, and Austrian economics, are important because they make visible all transfers, and whether or not they are against the desires of those from whom property is transferred. Aggregate macro economics and Keynesian economics are important because they obscure the transfer of goods against the desires of those from whom property is transferred. But,…

(There we go. Today was a milestone.) Universally descriptive, universally commensurable logic of ethics. We no longer must rely on moral or rational argument in advocacy of moral, ethical or political preference. We can rely on ratio-scientific argument under which illustrates the multitude of thefts, or suppression of thefts, being conducted in any action. Propertarianism,…

Prescriptive vs Descriptive There is a very great difference between rothbardian libertarianism as an aspirational philosophy ADVOCATING liberty, and Propertarianism as the correction and completion of praxeology as the science of human cooperation. Libertarianism is structured as advocacy: a NORMATIVE ETHIC. Propertarianism is structured as explanation: A DESCRIPTIVE ETHIC. And that is the difference between…

We use both measures.The truth is, that for the majority of household and personal functions, “human scale’ measurements are actually superior to metric measurements. At present, human scale measures are used for human scale work, and metric measurements are used for scientific work.  And there is a good argument to make that this is the…

(I’ll leave it to the reader to suggest which one of us makes a better argument. But I think I have the better argument.) Gary argues that Bitcoins (BTC) aren’t money, and that they are speculative shares. Both of these statements are true, but neither of them is a weakness. They are strengths I agree…

Andy Curzon, intellectual, friend and hero, has organized a PFS Conference next month in London at the Hilton. Yours truly will speak twice. First on the origins and causes of morality and the moral bias toward liberty, and second on the reformation of libertarian ethics to support liberty in the high trust society. These two…

  (However) Primitive matrilineality (endogamous) Community Family (endogamous) Patriarchal Community Family (exogamous) Authoritarian Family Egalitarian Nuclear Family (~catholic) Absolute Nuclear Family (endogamous) (Anglo Saxon) Post-Marital Individual Family (endogamous) (Feminism) The Anglo Saxon Absolute Nuclear Family – no precise inheritance rules, frequent use of wills; – no cohabitation of married children with their parents; – no…

IF I AM CORRECT, THEN ETHICAL INTUITIONISM IS CORRECT But they authors just didn’t have Mises, Rothbard and Hoppe to help them. (I did.) What Mises, Rothbard and Hoppe didn’t have, was the past twenty years of scientific research to rely upon. And the diverse set of ethical intuitions are not diverse at all. He…

  “…a herd of timid and industrious animals of which government is the shepherd…” QUOTE: “It seems that if despotism came to be established in the democratic nations of our day, it would have other characteristics: it would be more extensive and milder, and it would degrade men without tormenting them. … I see an…

We dont need another way of thinking. We cant convince anyone to adopt it. We dont need a new religion or belief. What we need is to understand why our beliefs, ways of thinking, and institutions failed to survive the extension of the franchise, and what to do about it now that they have failed.…