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Ethics: Morality Defined
Manners are a promise prior to a transaction (or action). Ethics are a promise internal to the transaction (or action). Morals are a promise external to and antecedent to any transaction (or action). The promise is quite simple. A promise to avoid involuntary transfer. That’s it. Ethics isn’t complicated.
The Moral Obligation To Disregard Feelings In Political Discourse
(Silencing the silly people) [P]olitical discourse is not civilized. It is a bloody brutal deceitful affair that is conducted in the pursuit the of power to allocate influence, property and opportunity, using every dishonest, distracting, fraudulent tactic available. Humanities is what it is. And I will let the empirical evidence speak for itself. It is…
What Are The Key Takeaways From The Wealth Of Nations?
1) The division of labor is many thousands of times more productive than what an individual can do alone.2) The division of knowledge and labor produces a moral society without the enforcement of religion or law.3) International trade allows countries to specialize.4) International trade produces peace. https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-key-takeaways-from-The-Wealth-of-Nations
In Post-modern Gender Studies, Is ‘phallocentric Capitalism’ Defined As A Distinct Economic And Social Order?
Is this a serious question or is it meant to be humorous? look at investments in male health vs female health. No comparison. https://www.quora.com/unanswered/In-post-modern-gender-studies-is-phallocentric-capitalism-defined-as-a-distinct-economic-and-social-order
What Are The Biggest Unsolved Intellectual Problems In The World Today?
1) If we are to supply money to the economy, how do we know how much? When are we causing more distortion than good?2) There is something wrong with the standard model. What is the theory of the universe? The theory of ‘everything’?3) What is the human population load bearing capacity of the planet? What…
What Would Happen To Monetary Currency Under Proposed Systems Of Anarchy?
Currency is necessary for a variety of reasons, and groups would get together to form currency unions. I suspect that no matter what happened, in no matter what circumstance, the group that managed to to this best at scale would displace all but a few of the other groups, and that we would once again…
Anarchism: What Becomes Of The Idea Of “job Security” Under Proposed Systems Of Anarchist Living?
Job security is an interesting term, because I don’t know how to define it honestly. And I don’t think the term is meant to be honest whenever its used. None of us has job security if we participate in the market. The security you have comes from maintaining marketable skills. Business today are temporary, disposable…
Did Liberalism, Socialism, Anarchism And Post-colonialism Fail?
IT APPEARS to be in the process of failing, but for institutional reasons. I dont know if i can get it across, but the simple analogy is a ponzi scheme. Although given any rate of growth, a ponzi scheme of this nature can be sustainable as long as there is an arithmetic connection between inputs…
What Restaurants In Middletown, Ct Are Good For Eating Alone?
Luce is best IMHO. Although Cannoli’s at Illiano’s are the main reason I look forward to food in Middletown. (I kind of love eating at restaurants alone – habit from traveling all the time.) If you are really asking if any are good for dating, or meeting people then the answer is ‘none’. Middletown was…
Is Socialism The Same As Capitalism?
THANK YOU FOR ASKING. I WILL TRY TO DO YOUR QUESTION JUSTICE ( You will, very likely, obtain moralistic, and therefore meaningless answers. I will try to give you the most scientific answer that I can.) We have to define some terms here, because your question confuses economic systems (means of allocating control over property)…
Can I Get A Good Paying Job If I Studied International Relations?
There are only two ‘good’ career paths in the present economy: Medicine and Programming. Medicine requires intelligence, reading comprehension, discipline, stamina, and exceptional memory skills. (It is not really mathematically rigorous. And is the last high paying occupation that we can say that of.) Programming (at least most of it) requires fairly good reasoning and…
What Are Some Problems People Will Be Surprised Mathematics Can’t Solve?
I am not sure that there are problems mathematics cannot illustrate. That seems unlikely. I think there are LOGICAL problems with number theory that cannot necessarily be solved with certainty. Math is a pretty good way of describing the physical world. It is a pretty good way of describing complex relations. But that is different…
How Do People Who Are Against Taxes Suggest Paying For Government Programs Many Believe Are Necessary?
PEOPLE AREN’T AGAINST TAXES THEY’RE AGAINST WHAT THEY CONSIDER IMMORAL USES OF THEM. People do not object to Taxes. They object to what they’re used for. All of them object to some aspect or another. Why? …. Because some people’s moral uses of taxes are immoral to others, and vice versa. The definition of necessary…
Janet Yellen Selected As New Fed Chair (2013-14): Would Larry Summers Be A Good Choice For The Next Chairman Of The Federal Reserve?
(This is an ideological question. And a loaded question. But I will try to do it justice anyway.) Summers is a ‘status quo’ economist with personal relationship with both the president and prominent wall street Democrats. He is unobjectionable to conservatives since he has said impolitic but true things at times that they agree with.…
Who Are The Most Influential Economists Alive?
INFLUENTIAL TO WHOM? Economists influence each other. Economists influence other academics. Economists influence policy makers. Economists influence members of the financial system Economists influence business and industry leaders Economists influence the interested public. The group of economists who influence each group varies considerably. In fact those who influence each other are very different from those…
What Does It Feel Like To Be Intelligent Enough To Understand How Dumb One Often Is?
Well, it makes you feel like you’re profoundly stupid actually. And to feel horrified about how much more stupid everyone else is. But to live in AWE of how we manage to work together using habits, norms, traditions, myths, narratives, writing, property rights, money, prices, accounting, contracts, law, measurements, and the scientific method. That’s actually…
Steering Libertarian Criticism Away From Socialism to Postmodernism, and The Completion Of The Anarchic Research Program
[I] am trying to steer some of libertarian criticism away from socialism onto Postmodernism. And that’s partly why I spend so much time on the “Dark Enlightenment” and their attempt to dethrone universalism. The question is, if we dethrone universalism and admit our differences, then moral ends and therefore moral statements will be likewise different.…
Why Would A Civilian Living Peacefully Need A Semi-automatic Gun?
Because if he is living peacefully, he lives peacefully because he and those like him have guns. https://www.quora.com/Why-would-a-civilian-living-peacefully-need-a-semi-automatic-gun
Has The Quality Of Content And Interactions On Quora Gone Down Drastically In The Recent Past?
It appears that way. Yes. It is declining. What is the difference between Quora and Yahoo forums or internet Newsgroups if there is no way to insulate questions and answers that meet scientific standards of argument from segmental and moral opinions and surveys? None. For example. A few commenters have referred to physics as a…
Why Is Income Redistribution Such A Problem For Republicans? Provide Data And Any Other Quantitative Evidence.
INCOME REDISTRIBUTION IS A PROBLEM FOR EVERYONE Otherwise we wouldn’t have a 1% movement. https://www.quora.com/Why-is-income-redistribution-such-a-problem-for-Republicans-Provide-data-and-any-other-quantitative-evidence