THE TWO TREES AND THE THREE FORCES
A Simple Story About Why Our Lives Feel Torn—and How a Better World Begins in the Smallest Decisions
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Natural Rights Derived from Free-will
Can "natural rights" or "negative rights" be derived from the Triadic Man theorem?
Charity, Necessity, and Theft — Why the Triadic Model Matters
Can a government program perform charity to the poor?
Are There First-Principles Foundations for Individual Rights?
What must already be true about a human being for rights to make sense at all?
Why Volition Cannot Be Recognized as Primary Without First Breaking Institutional Authority
Why have institutions that depend on mediation always treated primary volition as dangerous?
Bitcoin as a Moral Schelling Point
Bitcoin is a moral Schelling point because free agents, without coercion, align their wills around a rule set that refuses privilege, demands responsibility, and makes betrayal visible.
Authorship, Volition, and the Moral Legitimacy of Copyright
A Hoppean Argumentation Ethics Approach By tracing obligation back to normative authorship and reliance, we have shown—without axiomatic fiat—that authors possess a morally legitimate authority to license their creations and to reasonably expect that their terms will be honored by those who benefit from the work.
Girardian Memetic Desire and Sin
A Triadic Analysis of Desire, Agency, and Moral Responsibility
The Liability–Personhood Theorem (Necessary and Sufficient Conditions)
If an entity cannot be made to pay, cannot be deprived, cannot refuse, cannot persist as the same accountable bearer, and cannot lose in a way that matters *to itself*, then it cannot be liable as a person.
Normative Agency as a Precondition of Law and Moral Accountability
An Atheistic Debate on the Existence of Normative Agency in Man
A Diagnosis of the Copyleft Ideology Moral Trap
Copyleft is not immoral because it values sharing. It is immoral because it teaches people to feel virtuous while evading responsibility.
Toward a Theory of Value
Authorship, Volition, and the Preservation of Will
Indelibility, Authorship, and the Ontology of Money
Proof-of-Work as the Physical Limit of Human Monetary Authority. Indelibility is the asymptotic target of all monetary systems. - Legal indelibility is reversible by authority - Ontological indelibility is irreversible by physics - Fiat survives by confusing legal and physical indelibitlity. - Proof-of-work is the physical inscription of human will into history. - Money is a claim about what has happened in the physical world. - A monetary system is valid to the degree that its history cannot be falsified without re-performing the sacrifice it claims.
TRIADIC DEFENSE DOCTRINE
Thought Experiment: How a Triadic Common-Law Nation Responds to a Hostile, Expansionist Theocracy