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"Consider and if necessary critique policies, especially economic policies, in terms of the incentives they create for all stakeholders, rather than the goals they proclaim. Whenever a politician does not fully consider the incentives for each and all involved in any policies contemplated or initiated they will get unintended, unexpected consequences, which are usually bad. And while you are carefully considering what process and result would be seen spend time trying to work out what would be unseen - for example what is the opportunity cost of doing this rather than something else? The reason the incentives are so important is that in a free society, people must want and then choose the actions and results proposed, or else they will try to do something else and then the policy will fail or enforcement will become necessary and force is no way to run a happy, fulfilling society." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"We are all 'icebergs', with most of who we are below the waterline and out of sight." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"Too many people believe in force and politically driven punishment. They believe in the attitude of 'If you will not see the light then you will feel the heat'. It is more morally correct rather to focus on the inborn, inalienable right of individuals to be free to choose, but with all the information available so that it is a fully informed and therefore an intelligent decision about what is truly best for them in the long run. The right to freedom of expression is then the best way to influence people's choices rather than force." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"Honesty is telling the truth. Integrity is doing what you say you will." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"The essence of individual freedom and responsibility in a society is for the government's powers to be limited constitutionally to simply stopping force and fraud by enforcing property rights and contracts. Any further powers a government has leads to their favouring one group over another and reduces freedom, equality and fraternity." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"One of the great dangers in society is the declaration of a desire as a right. For example everyone has the 'right' to be beautiful. Philosophers have tried to boil down human desires into an irreducible but all encompassing few that any person anywhere in the world or at any time through out history would consider their birthright as a human individual. These few rights that all have equally have been called inalienable, natural, inborn rights and they are listed as life, liberty [meaning informed choice without fraud or force], the pursuit of happiness, personal property [including their own body] and self-defense of these. The regular dwelling upon and insight into these can act as an 'a priori' non-religious, humanistic philosophy to guide and even inspire any individual in their life and social relationships." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"[If you ever wonder if freedom is important to countries and individuals remember...]
In World War I, 15 million people died... to protect the rights and freedom of nation states and their people.
In World War II, over 60 million people died... to protect the rights and freedom of nation states and their people.
[Their sacrifice should never be forgotten by politicians or citizens. Freedom should never be dismissed or compromised even for the goal of economic security that socialist and statist politicians peddle for that is the false security a slave feels as a possession of someone else.]" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"Enough lawyers do not make the following points clearly and repeatedly to those that they are involved in law cases. Any person, especially the innocent, should remember that our Western legal system is adversarial. So do not be surprised, in fact be prepared, if you are a witness or even the victim in a legal court case, to be verbally attacked, insulted and your honesty and reputation impugned. It is a battle of fire. Although it will be very hard, do not take it personally. Do not expect the opposition lawyer to fight 'fair'. Do not expect your lawyer or the judge to object or defend you or your testimony to your satisfaction. Do not rise to the opposition lawyer's tactics to discredit, belittle, anger and rattle you. Be a model of calm, patient, clarity, honesty and reasonableness. In this way you give the court, judge and jury, the best chance to eventually adjudicate the case fairly and hopefully in your favour." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"In order for people to fully enjoy their inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and private property, individuals and groups must ensure that fraud [deception] and force are not allowed. This is the reason I believe that laws are required as well as police and military defence. Many other things that politicians try to decide for us I think are a violation of our inalienable rights to choose for ourselves so long as we don't impinge on others' equal rights and as such are immoral. This is a Libertarian philosophy." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"It takes all sorts to make a 'world'." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"Different things are right for different people, places, events and needs ...just like the old sayings, 'Horses for courses' and 'menus for venues'." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"The true foundation of a just and happy life is the freedom to choose and succeed or fail by your own choices, rather than circumstances or connections." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"Ethics is not always simple. According to Jeremy Bentham, an English philosopher of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and a founder of moral utilitarianism, in his book, ‘The Principles of Morals and Legislation’, ‘the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.’ This idea gives justification for democracy and majority rule. But there is a classic dilemma with this as summarized by Andre Comte-Sponville’s question, in his work, ‘Petit Traite’: ‘If you had to condemn one innocent (or torture one child, as Dostoevsky frames it) to save humankind, should you do it?’ [Another less drastic but similar question would be the Robin Hood dilemma, ’Is it morally acceptable to steal – even if it is from a rich minority to give to a poor majority?’] ‘No!’ most philosophers say. Immanuel Kant, in his book, ‘The Philosophy of Law: An Exposition of the Fundamental Principles of Jurisprudence as the Science of Right’ says, ‘For if justice were to disappear human existence on Earth would be of no value.’ Comte-Sponville goes further: ‘This is where utilitarianism reaches its limit. If justice were merely a contract of convenience...a maximization of the collective well-being...it would be fair, in order to ensure the well-being of almost everyone, to sacrifice the few without their consent and even if they were perfectly innocent and defenceless. That, however, is just what justice forbids, or should forbid. John Rawls, drawing on Kant, is quite right in this respect: justice is worth more than well-being or efficiency, and is better than either, and must not be sacrificed to them, even for the happiness of the greatest number. This is the basis of human rights which define what the majority can never over-ride even in a democracy. Simply the majority alone cannot decide what is right. Might is not right. This is why for example the Founding Fathers of the United States in their profound philosophical and practical wisdom went out of their way to enshrine certain human rights in their actions and social contract with the people. For example, the United States’ Declaration of Independence lists ‘Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness’ among the ‘unalienable rights’ or ‘sovereign rights of man’ and The Bill of Rights, which protects the ‘natural rights’ of liberty and property, is included as the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. [The contemporary American philosopher, John Rawls, in his book, ‘A Theory of Justice’ (2005), formulated one of the most important critiques of utilitarianism. He rejected the doctrine of collective happiness as ultimate justification for our acts and proposed in its stead respect for the inviolability of individual rights, along with the principle of equal freedom and equitable cooperation, which is consistent with the Golden Rule, found in nearly all major religions although phrased in different ways, of equally ‘treating each person as we’d like to be treated if we were in their place’.]" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
Based on ideas in Matthieu Ricard’s best-selling book, ‘The Art of Happiness - A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill’.
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"Every day aim for another full day of caring and being of benefit to others... to compassionately ease the suffering and make life better for those you come in contact with." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"Some political philosophies (based of the unalienable rights of individuals to freedom) that argue against government force - lack of choice (even democracies - where the majority get to choose against the wishes of minorities) desire to limit government to only the role of the agent of self-defence against other citizens or groups within that nation and foreign individuals, groups or nations from the use of force, the threat of force - coercion, or fraud, and leave all other needs to be fulfilled by, what they believe is, the more efficient competition of free markets and thereby the success of those best able to provide value in meeting the needs of the consumer. This is the belief of some Libertarians for example. Other groups, for example voluntaryists, feel that even this limited role for government is still an act of force as there is no choice for each individual - the smallest of minorities, as to which protection agent is used, and believe that even this need for a small government could be replaced by competing free market entities engaged voluntarily by each individual citizen depending on what best suits their needs and circumstances." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"In a democratic form of government, all the government serves the wishes of the majority of the people. In a socialist-communist form of government, all the people serve the wishes of the minority of the government." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"[As the following two quotes show, Communism wanted freedom, but what that freedom would mean and how to obtain and keep it differed from other socio-economic political philosophies.]
'The popular masses who want peace, freedom and bread must, in this period of dark onrush of events, always hold themselves ready to spring up as one man against every danger...' - Antonio Gramsci, 'The development of fascism' (1921); and
- 2) 'When wages have disappeared, when all are upon a basis of economic equality, when the position of manager, director, organiser, etc., brings no material advantage, the desire for it will be less widespread and less keen, and the danger of oppressive action by the management will be largely nullified. Nevertheless, management imposed on unwilling subordinates will not be tolerated; where the organiser has chosen the assistants, the assistants will be free to leave, or change him; where the assistants choose the organiser, they will be free to change him. Co-operation for the common good is necessary, but freedom, not domination, is the goal.' - E. Sylvia Pankhurst, 'Communism and its Tactics', (1921).
[This is the continual challenge, how to provide individuals with the social environment they want. Luckily with time and experimentation societies are getting more experience and understanding of ways that meet different needs and how to mix them together. The difficulty however is that we are all different and therefore want slightly different things so individual freedom seems like it will be an important component along with tolerance of others so long as they don't initiate force, coercion or fraud.]" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"It is interesting and important to note that capitalism and socialism, along with its more extreme version - communism, use the same terms 'freedom' and 'equality' in their rhetoric but mean different, mutually exclusive things. In capitalism 'freedom' means 'freedom from initiated force, coercion and fraud', while in socialism and communism 'freedom' means 'freedom from want of basic needs'. And in capitalism 'equality' means 'equality of treatment', while in socialism and communism 'equality' means 'equality of opportunity' and more importantly 'equality of outcome'." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"Most religions have an ethic or morality based around the idea of reciprocity, often simply referred to as 'The Golden Rule' of social relations namely, 'Treat others as you would like to be treated' [for the way it makes you feel about yourself at the time - your self-respect and self-esteem - and for the way you may be treated by them or others in the future and rewarded or punished after death, as in the Christian concepts of 'Heaven and Hell' and the concept of Karma - 'What goes around comes around' in this and future incarnations - in Jainism, Hinduism and Buddhism.]" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"[Morality and ethics:] The 'Golden Choice', ‘Golden Rule’, ‘Golden Law’ or ‘Ethic of Reciprocity’ is a maxim, ethical code, or voluntary morality that essentially states either of the following: (Positive form): ‘One should freely choose to treat others as one would like others to treat oneself’; (Negative/prohibitive form, also called the ‘Silver Rule’): ‘One should freely choose to not treat others in ways that one would not like to be treated.’ The equivalent of the Golden Rule is found in the scriptures of nearly every religion. It is often regarded as the most concise and general principle of ethics. The following shows a sample of this wisdom expressed in many different religions - BAHAI'I, BUDDHISM, CHRISTIANITY, CONFUCIANISM, HINDUISM, ISLAM [An adherent of Islam is known as a Muslim], JAINISM, JUDAISM, LATTER-DAY SAINTS [Also known as Mormonism], QUAKERISM, SHINTOISM, SIKHISM, SUFISM, TAOISM, UNITARIANISM, ZOROASTRIANISM - belief systems - AFRICAN, EGYPTIAN [ANTIQUITY], GREEK [ANTIQUITY], HUMANISM, LIBERTARIAN, NATIVE AMERICAN, PERSIAN [ANTIQUITY], ROMAN [ANTIQUITY], SCIENTOLOGY, UTILITARIANISM, WICCA, OTHER – and folklore – in the form of ‘the long spoons allegory’ in the cultures of BUDDHISTS, CHRISTIANS, HINDUS, JEWS and ORIENTALS:
=== RELIGIONS===
--- BAHAI'I:
- ‘Blessed is he who preferreth his brother before himself.’ {Bahá'u'lláh, Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh}
- ‘Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.’ {Udana-Varga, 5:18}
- ‘Oh Son of Being! Ascribe not to any soul that which thou wouldst not have ascribed to thee, and say not that which thou doest not. This is My command unto thee, do thou observe it.’
{Arabic Hidden Words [I have also seen this attributed to Bahá'u'lláh]}
- ‘And if thine eyes be turned towards justice, choose thou for thy neighbour that which thou choosest for thyself.’ {Epistle to the Son of the Wolf}
- ‘Wish not for others what ye wish not for yourselves.’ {Kitab-I-Aqdas}
- ‘Lay not upon any soul a load that you would not wish to be laid upon you, and desire not for anyone the things you would not desire for yourself.’ {Baha'u'llah Gleanings}
- ‘He should not wish for others what he does not wish for himself.’
{Baha'u'llah Buddhism}
- ‘Is there a deed, Rahula, thou dost wish to do? Then bethink thee thus:
Is this deed conducive to my own harm, or to others harm, or to that of both?
Then is this a bad deed entailing suffering. Such a deed must thou surely not do.’
{Majjhima Nikaya 1.415}
- ‘The Ariyan disciple thus reflects, Here am I, fond of my life, not wanting to die,
fond of pleasure and averse from pain. Suppose someone should rob me of my life...
it would not be a thing pleasing and delightful to me. If I, in my turn, should rob of his life one fond of his life, not wanting to die, one fond of pleasure and averse to pain,
it would not be a thing pleasing or delightful to him. For a state that is not pleasant
or delightful to me must also be to him also; and a state that is not pleasing or delightful to me, how could I inflict that upon another? As a result of such reflection he himself abstains from taking the life of creatures and he encourages others so to abstain,
and speaks in praise of so abstaining.’
{Samyutta Nikaya v.353}
- ‘All beings love life. All beings fear death. Knowing this the wise man does not kill
nor cause to kill.’
{Dhammapadha}
- ‘In five ways should a clansman minister to his friends and familiars,
by treating them as he treats himself.’
{Sigalovada Sutta v 31}
- ‘Comparing oneself to others in such terms as ‘Just as I am so are they,
just as they are so am I,’ he should neither kill nor cause others to kill.’
{Sutta Nipata v 705}
- ‘Hurt not others in ways that you would find hurtful.’
{Tripitaka Udana-varga 5:18}
- ‘...a state that is not pleasing or delightful to me, how could I inflict that upon another?’ Samyutta {NIkaya v. 353}
- ‘Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.’
{Tripitaka Udana-Varga 5:18}
--- BUDDHISM:
- ‘All beings love life. All beings fear death. Knowing this the wise man does not kill
nor cause to kill.’
{Buddha, Dhammapadha}
- ‘Treat not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.’
{Udana-Varga 5.18}
- ‘I will act towards others exactly as I would act towards myself.’
{The Siglo-Vada Sutta}
- ‘‘The Ariyan disciple thus reflects, ‘Here am I, fond of my life, not wanting to die, fond of pleasure and averse from pain. Suppose someone should rob me of my life... it would not be a thing pleasing and delightful to me. If I, in my turn, should rob of his life one fond of his life, not wanting to die, one fond of pleasure and averse from pain, it would not be a thing pleasing or delightful to him. For a state that is not pleasant or delightful to me must also be to him also; and a state that is not pleasing or delightful to me, how could I inflict that upon another?’
As a result of such reflection he himself abstains from taking the life of creatures and he encourages others so to abstain, and speaks in praise of so abstaining.’’
{Samyutta Nikaya v.353}
- ‘One should seek for others the happiness one desires for one's self.’
{Buddhist - unattributed}
--- CHRISTIANITY:
- ‘Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them,
for this is the Law and the Prophets.’
{Yahshua, Matthew 7:12}
- ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
{Yahshua, Matthew 22:39}
- ‘Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you,
do not demand it back. Do to others as you would have them do to you.’
{Luke 6.30-31}
- ‘And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master,
what shall I do to inherit eternal life? He said unto him, What is written in the law?
How readest thou? And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind;
and thy neighbor as thyself. And he said unto him,
Thou hast answered right: do this, and thou shalt live.’
{Luke 10:25-28}
- ‘Whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.’
{Matthew 7.12}
- ‘Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?’ Jesus said to him,
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,
and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment.
And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets.’
{Matthew 22.36-40}
- ‘Owe no man anything, but to love one another: for he that loveth another
hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill,
Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet;
and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law’
{Romans 13:8-10}
- ‘For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this;
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.’
{Galatians 5:14}
- ‘So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you,
for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.’
{Bible, version unknown.}
- ‘Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you,
do ye even so to them.’
{Matthew 7:12}
- ‘...and don't do what you hate...’
{Gospel of Thomas 6}
--- CONFUCIANISM:
- ‘Do not do to others what you would not like yourself.
Then there will be no resentment against you, either in the family or in the state.’
{Analects 12:2}
- ‘Do not unto others what you would not have them do unto you.’
{Analects 15:23}
- ‘One word which sums up the basis for all good conduct…loving kindness.
Do not do unto others what you would not want done to yourself.’
{Analects of Confucius 15.23}
- Tse-kung asked, ‘Is there one word that can serve as a principle of conduct for life?’ Confucius replied, ‘It is the word 'shu' - reciprocity.’
{Analects 15.23 or}
- ‘Tse-kung asked, 'Is there one word that can serve as a principle of conduct
for life?' Confucius replied, 'It is the word 'shu' - reciprocity.
Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.'‘
{Doctrine of the Mean 13.3}
- ‘Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.’
{Doctrine of the Mean 13.3}
- ‘One should not behave towards others in a way which is disagreeable to oneself.’ {Mencius Vii.A.4}
- ‘When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them
on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path.
What you do not like when done to yourself, do not do to others.’
{Li Ki 28.1.32}
- ‘What a man dislikes in his superiors, let him not display in the treatment of his inferiors; what he dislikes in inferiors, let him not display in the service of his superiors;
what he hates in those who are before him, let him not therewith precede those
who are behind him; what he hates in those who are behind him, let him not therewith follow those who are before him; what he hates to receive on the right, let him not bestow on the left; what he hates to receive on the left, let him not bestow on the right: - this is what is called ‘The principle with which, as with a measuring-square,
to regulate one's conduct.’
{The Great Learning 10.2}
- ‘Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself,
and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence.’
{Mencius VII.A.4}
--- HINDUISM:
- ‘This is the sum of duty; do naught onto others
what you would not have them do unto you.’
{Mahabharata}
- ‘Wound not others, do no one injury by thought or deed,
utter no word to pain thy fellow creatures.’
{The Ordinances of Manu}
- ‘One should not behave towards others in a way which is disagreeable to oneself.
This is the essence of morality. All other activities are due to selfish desire.’
{Mahabharata, Anusasana Parva 113.8}
- ‘Do naught to others which, if done to thee, would cause thee pain:
this is the sum of duty.’
{Mahabharata, 5.1517 or}
- ‘This is the sum of duty:
Do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you.’
{Mahabharata, 5:1517 or}
- ‘This is the sum of the Dharma [duty]: do naught unto others
which would cause you pain if done to you.’
{Mahabharata 5:1517}
- ‘The true rule of life is to guard and do by the things of others as they do by their own.’ {Hindu – unattributed}
--- ISLAM [an adherent of Islam is known as a Muslim also spelled Moslem]:
- ‘Not one of you truly believes until you wish for others
that which you wish for yourself.’
{The Prophet Mohammed Hadith}
- ‘No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother
that which he desires for himself.’
{Sunnah Islam or}
- ‘Not one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother
that which he desires for himself.’
{Number 13 of Imam}
- ‘Al-Nawawi's Forty Hadiths.’ or ‘None of you [truly] believes
until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.’
{Number 13 of Imam ‘Al-Nawawi's Forty Hadiths’}
- ‘Let none of you treat his brother in a way he himself would not like to be treated.’
{Islam - unattributed}
--- JAINISM:
- ‘In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures
as we regard our own self.’
{Lord Mahavir 24th Tirthankara}
- ‘In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures
as we regard our own self’
Lord Mahavira, 24th Tirthankara
- ‘One who you think should be hit is none else but you. One who you think should be governed is none else but you. One who you think should be tortured is none else
but you. One who you think should be enslaved is none else but you. One who you think should be killed is none else but you. A sage is ingenuous and leads his life after comprehending the parity of the killed and the killer. Therefore, neither does he cause violence to others nor does he make others do so.’
{Acarangasutra 5.101-2}
- ‘Therefore, neither does he [a sage] cause violence to others
nor does he make others do so.’
Acarangasutra 5.101-2.
- ‘One should treat all beings as he himself would be treated.’
{Agamas Sutrakritanga 1.10.13}
- ‘A man should wander about treating all creatures as he himself would be treated.’
{Agamas Sutrakritanga 1.11.33}
--- JUDAISM:
- ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.’
{YHWH, Leviticus 19:18}
- ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
{Leviticus 19.18}
‘Take heed to thyself, my child, in all thy works; and be discreet in all thy behavior.
And what thou thyself hatest, do to no man.’
{Tobit 4.14-15}
- ‘Whatsoever thou wouldest that men should not do unto thee, do not do that to them.’
{Talmud, Shabbat 31a or}
- ‘A certain heathen came to Shammai and said to him, ‘Make me a proselyte, on condition that you teach me the whole Torah while I stand on one foot.’
Thereupon he repulsed him with the rod which was in his hand. When he went to Hillel, he said to him, ‘What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor:
that is the whole Torah; all the rest of it is commentary; go and learn.’
{Talmud, Shabbat 31a or}
- ‘What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man.
That is the entire law: all the rest is commentary.’
{Talmud, Shabbat 31a or}
- ‘What is hateful to you do not do to your neighbour.
This is the whole torah [Law]; all the rest is commentary.’
{Hillel Talmud, Shabbat 31a}
- ‘...thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.’
{Leviticus 19:18 or}
- ‘Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people,
but love your neighbour as yourself.’
{Bible, The New International Version, Leviticus 19:18}
--- LATTER-DAY SAINTS [Also known as Mormonism]:
- ‘And let every man esteem his brother as himself,
and practice virtue and holiness before me.’
{Doctrine and Covenants 38:24}
--- QUAKERISM:
- ‘Oh, do as you would be done by. And do unto all men as you would have them do unto you, for this is but the law and the prophet.’
{Postscript to the Quaker peace testimony, signed by George Fox}
--- SHINTOISM:
- ‘Be charitable to all beings, love is the representative of God.’
{Ko-ji-ki Hachiman Kasuga}
- ‘The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form’
--- SIKHISM:
- ‘No one is my enemy, none a stranger and everyone is my friend.’
{Guru Arjan Dev}
- ‘Do not create enmity with anyone as God is within everyone.’
{Guru Arjan Devji 259. Guru Granth Sahib}
- ‘We obtain salvation by loving our fellow man and God.’
{Granth Japji}
- ‘Compassion-mercy and religion are the support of the entire world’.
{Japji Sahib}
- ‘Don't create enmity with anyone as God is within everyone.’
{Guru Arjan Devji 259}
--- SUFISM [defined by its adherents as the inner, mystical dimension of Islam]:
_ ‘The basis of Sufism is consideration of the hearts and feelings of others. If you haven't the will to gladden someone's heart, then at least beware lest you hurt someone's heart, for on our path, no sin exists but this.’
{Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh, Master of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order}
--- TAOISM:
- ‘Regard your neighbor's gain as your gain, and your neighbor's loss as your own loss.’ {Tai Shang Kan Yin P'ien}
- ‘Recompense injury with kindness.’ ‘To those who are good to me, I am good;
to those who are not good to me, I am also good. Thus all get to be good.
To those who are sincere with me, I am sincere; to those who are not sincere with me,
I am also sincere. Thus all get to be sincere.’
- ‘The sage has no interest of his own, but takes the interests of the people as his own. He is kind to the kind; he is also kind to the unkind: for Virtue is kind.
He is faithful to the faithful; he is also faithful to the unfaithful: for Virtue is faithful.’
{Tao Teh Ching, Chapter 49}
- ‘Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain, and your neighbor's loss
as your own loss.’
{T'ai Shang Kan Ying P'ien}
--- UNITARIANISM:
- ‘We affirm and promote respect for the interdependent of all existence
of which we are a part.’
{Unitarian principles}
--- ZOROASTRIANISM:
- ‘That nature alone is good which refrains from doing to another
whatsoever is not good for itself.’
{Dadisten-I-dinik, 94,5}
- ‘Whatever thou dost not approve for thyself, do not approve for anyone else.
When thou hast acted in this manner, thou art righteous.’
- ‘That nature only is good when it shall not do unto another whatever
is not good for its own self.’
{Avesta: Dadistan-i-dink 94:5}
- ‘When a good man is beaten through malice, the effort of every one should continue
just as though it happened to himself.’
- ‘Whatever is disagreeable to yourself do not do unto others.’
{Shayast-na-Shayast 13:29}
- ‘Comparing oneself to others in such terms as Just as I am so are they,
just as they are so am I, he should neither kill nor cause others to kill.’
=== BELIEF SYSTEMS===
--- AFRICAN:
- ‘One going to take a pointed stick to pinch a baby bird should first try it on himself
to feel how it hurts.’ {Yoruba Proverb African Traditional (Nigeria)}
--- EGYPTIAN [ANTIQUITY]:
- ‘Do for one who may do for you, that you may cause him thus to do.’ {The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant 109 – 110. Translated by R.B. Parkinson. The original dates to 1970 BCE to 1640 BCE and may be the earliest version ever written of the Golden Rule}
--- GREEK [ANTIQUITY]:
- ‘Do not do to others that which would anger you if others did it to you.’
{Socrates}
- ‘May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me’
{Plato}
- ‘We should behave to friends as we would wish friends to behave to us.’
{Aristotle}
- ‘What you would avoid suffering yourself, seek not to impose upon others.’
{Epictetus}
- ‘It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly (agreeing 'neither to harm nor be harmed'), and it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.’ – {Epicurus}
- ‘Do not to your neighbor what you would take ill from him.’
{Pittacus}
‘Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.’
{Thales}
- ‘What you do not want to happen to you, do not do it yourself either.’
{Sextus, the Pythagorean.}
- ‘Do not do to others what would anger you if done to you by others.’
{Isocrates}
- ‘Do not that to a neighbor which you shall take ill from him.’
{Ancient Greek - unattributed}
--- HUMANISM:
- ‘Treat other people as you'd want to be treated in their situation; don't
do things you wouldn't want to have done to you.’
{British Humanist Association}
- ‘Humanists acknowledge human interdependence, the need for mutual respect and the kinship of all humanity. Humanists affirm that individual and social problems can only be resolved by means of human reason, intelligent effort, critical thinking joined with compassion and a spirit of empathy for all living beings.’
--- LIBERTARIAN:
- ‘The non-aggression principle (also called the non-aggression axiom, the anti-coercion principle, the zero aggression principle, the non-initiation of force, ZAP, or NAP) is a moral stance which asserts that aggression is inherently illegitimate. Aggression, for the purposes of the NAP, is defined as the initiation or threatening of violence against a person or legitimately owned property of another. Specifically, any unsolicited actions of others that physically affect an individual’s property or person (which may also be considered that person's property), no matter if the result of those actions is damaging, beneficial, or neutral to the owner, are considered violent or aggressive when they are against the owner’s free will and interfere with his right to self-determination or the principle of self-ownership. Supporters of NAP often use it to demonstrate the immorality of theft, vandalism, assault, and fraud. In contrast to pacifism, the non-aggression principle does not preclude violence used in self-defense or defense of others.’
{Wikipedia.org}
- ‘The harm principle holds that the actions of individuals should only be limited to prevent harm to other individuals. John Stuart Mill articulated this principle in ‘On Liberty’, where he argued that ‘the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.’ An equivalent was earlier stated in France's ‘Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen’ of 1789 as ‘Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights.’
{Wikipedia.org}
- Historical formulations of the non-aggression principle:
‘Natural justice is a symbol or expression of usefullness, to prevent one person from harming or being harmed by another.’ {300's BC – Epicurus};
‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.’ {20's - 30's AD - Jesus Christ};
‘Among the absolute duties, i.e., of anybody to anybody, the first place belongs to this one: let no one injure another. For this is the broadest of all duties, embracing all men as such.’ {1682 - Samuel von Pufendorf, in ‘On the Duty of Man and Citizen’.};
‘Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.’ {1689 - John Locke, in ‘Second Treatise on Government’.};
‘No man can have a right to begin to interrupt the happiness of another.’ This formulation emphasized ‘begin’ to distinguish aggressive disturbances from those in self-defense (‘...yet every man has a right to defend himself and his against violence, to recover what is taken by force from him, and even to make reprisals, by all the means that truth and prudence permit.’) {1722 - William Wollaston, in ‘The Religion of Nature Delineated’.};
‘The birthright of man ... is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every other individual with whom he is united in a social compact, and the continued existence of that compact.’ {1790 - Mary Wollstonecraft, in ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Men’.};
‘Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law', because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.’ and ‘No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.’ (Thomas Jefferson to Francis Gilmer, 1816);
‘Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.’ {1851 - Herbert Spencer. This is known as the law of equal freedom. This notion of equal freedom goes back to earlier liberal thought.}
‘The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others’. {1859 - John Stuart Mill, in ‘On Liberty’, where he formulated this concept called the harm principle.};
‘The precondition of a civilized society is the barring of physical force from social relationships. ... In a civilized society, force may be used only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use.’ {1961 - Ayn Rand, in an essay called ‘Man's Rights’ in the book ‘The Virtue of Selfishness’.};
‘No one may threaten or commit violence ('aggress') against another man's person or property. Violence may be employed only against the man who commits such violence; that is, only defensively against the aggressive violence of another. In short, no violence may be employed against a non-aggressor. Here is the fundamental rule from which can be deduced the entire corpus of libertarian theory.’ {1963 - Murray Rothbard, in ‘War, Peace, and the State’ (1963) which appeared in ‘Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays’.}
--- NATIVE AMERICAN:
- ‘Respect for all life is the foundation.’
{The Great Law of Peace}
- ‘All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves.
All is really One.’
{Black Elk}
- ‘We are as much alive as we keep the earth alive.’
{Chief Dan George}
- ‘The Spider Grandmother gave two rules: Don't go around hurting people,
and Try to understand things.’
{Capo 2nd Hopi Indian culture}
- ‘Do not wrong or hate your neighbor. For it is not he who you wrong, but yourself.’
{Pima proverb}
- ‘Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow.’ {Chief Joseph, Nez Perce}
- ‘Our fathers gave us many laws, which they had learned from their fathers. These laws were good. They told us to treat all men as they treated us; that we should never be the first to break a bargain; that it was a disgrace to tell a lie; that we should speak only the truth…’ {Chief Joseph, Nez Perce}
--- PERSIAN [ANTIQUITY]:
- ‘Do as you would be done by.’
--- ROMAN [ANTIQUITY]:
- ‘Treat your inferiors as you would be treated by your superiors.’
{Seneca: Epistle 47:11}
- ‘The law imprinted on the hearts of all men is to love the members of society as themselves.’
{Roman Pagan Religion}
--- SCIENTOLOGY:
- ‘Thus today we have two golden rules for happiness: 1. Be able to experience anything; and 2. Cause only those things which others are able to experience easily.’ {‘Scientology: A New Slant on Life, Two Rules for Happy Living’}
--- UTILITARIANISM:
- ‘To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbor as one's self,
constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.’
{John Stuart Mills}
--- WICCA:
- ‘An' it harm no one, do what thou wilt’ (i.e. do whatever you want to,
as long as it harms nobody, including yourself).
{The Wiccan Rede Writers}
- ‘Here ye these words and heed them well, the words of Dea, thy Mother Goddess, ‘I command thee thus, O children of the Earth, that that which ye deem harmful unto thyself, the very same shall ye be forbidden from doing unto another, for violence and hatred give rise to the same. My command is thus, that ye shall return all violence and hatred with peacefulness and love, for my Law is love unto all things. Only through love shall ye have peace; yea and verily, only peace and love will cure the world, and subdue all evil.’
{Codex Vias, Part Two}
--- OTHER:
- ‘We must treat others as we wish others to treat us’
{The ‘Declaration Toward a Global Ethic’ from the Parliament of the World’s Religions (1993) proclaimed the Golden Rule (‘We must treat others as we wish others to treat us’) as the common principle for many religions. The Initial Declaration was signed by 143 respected leaders from all of the world's major faiths, including Baha'i Faith, Brahmanism, Brahma Kumaris, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Indigenous, Interfaith, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Native American, Neo-Pagan, Sikhism, Taoism, Theosophist, Unitarian Universalist and Zoroastrian.}
- ‘So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.’ [A morality he called The Principle of Universality.]’
{Immanuel Kant}
- ‘Every man takes care that his neighbor does not cheat him.
But the day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor.
Then all goes well.’
{Ralph Waldo Emerson}
- ‘One should be ‘contented with so much liberty against other men, as he
would allow against himself.’ {Thomas Hobbes}
- ‘You should always ask yourself what would happen if everyone did
what you are doing.’
{Jean-Paul Sartre}
- ‘It is a very high goal: free and responsible development of the individual,
so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of mankind.’
{Albert Einstein}
- ‘Neighbors' willingness to act, when needed, for one another's benefit,
and particularly for the benefit of one another's children.’
{Dr. Felton Earls, professor of human behavior & development,
Harvard School of Public Health}
- ‘I am Thou Thou are I He is ours We both are His So may all be for our neighbor. Only he can be just who is able to put himself in the position of others.
Only he who can take care of what belongs to others may have his own.
Treat Another's as your own and be ye so related. ‘The highest aim and sense
of human life is the striving to attain the welfare of one's neighbor,’
and that this is possible exclusively only by the conscious renunciation of one's own.’
{G.I. Gurdjieff}
- ‘Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.’
{Karen Armstrong}
- ‘The Golden Rule would reconcile capital and labor,
all political contention and uproar, all selfishness and greed.’
{Joseph Parker}
- ‘We have committed the golden rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.’
{Edwin Markham}
‘You reap what you sow.’ [Also known as the principle of Karma.]
{Proverb}
- ‘Tit for tat’. [Some early incarnations of the Golden Rule, were found in Ancient Babylon in the Code of Hammurabi, (1780 BCE), which dealt with ethical reciprocity in ways, such as by limiting retribution and treatment of others to only that which was equal and equitable. For example, ‘an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth’.]
{Saying}
- ‘A double standard [also known as hypocrisy] is the application of different sets of principles for similar situations, or to different people in the same situation [so there is no reciprocity].’ {dictionary.com}
=== FOLKLORE ===
[… in the form of ‘the long spoons allegory’ in the cultures of BUDDHISTS, CHRISTIANS, HINDUS, JEWS and ORIENTALS:]
Rabbi Haim of Romshishok was an itinerant preacher. He traveled from town to town delivering religious sermons that stressed the importance of respect for one’s fellow man. He often began his talks with the following story:
‘I once ascended to the firmaments. I first went to see Hell and the sight was horrifying. Row after row of tables were laden with platters of sumptuous food, yet the people seated around the tables were pale and emaciated, moaning in hunger. As I came closer, I understood their predicament.
Every person held a full spoon, but both arms were splinted with wooden slats so he could not bend either elbow to bring the food to his mouth. It broke my heart to hear the tortured groans of these poor people as they held their food so near but could not consume it.
Next I went to visit Heaven. I was surprised to see the same setting I had witnessed in Hell – row after row of long tables laden with food. But in contrast to Hell, the people here in Heaven were sitting contentedly talking with each other, obviously sated from their sumptuous meal.
As I came closer, I was amazed to discover that here, too, each person had his arms splinted on wooden slats that prevented him from bending his elbows. How, then, did they manage to eat?
As I watched, a man picked up his spoon and dug it into the dish before him. Then he stretched across the table and fed the person across from him! The recipient of this kindness thanked him and returned the favor by leaning across the table to feed his benefactor.
I suddenly understood. Heaven and Hell offer the same circumstances and conditions. The critical difference is in the way the people treat each other.
I ran back to Hell to share this solution with the poor souls trapped there. I whispered in the ear of one starving man, ‘You do not have to go hungry. Use your spoon to feed your neighbor, and he will surely return the favor and feed you.’
'You expect me to feed the detestable man sitting across the table?' said the man angrily. 'I would rather starve than give him the pleasure of eating!'
I then understood God’s wisdom in choosing who is worthy to go to Heaven and who deserves to go to Hell.’
{Rabbi, Haim. ‘Narrative of the allegory’} [Also described in a similar fashion in Lord, Shiva. ‘Hindu parable: A Long Handled Spoon’, Horn, Nils. ‘Yoga Basic Knowledge and Exercises’, pp. 30, Peseschkian, Nossrat (1986). ‘Oriental stories as tools in psychotherapy’. Springer-Verlag. pp. 26, Tietze, Harald W. ‘Happyology’. The Pope tells the story of the long spoons. pp. 61, Swami, Vinod (1992). ‘Conflict Mediation Across Cultures’.]" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
Ideas and quotes collected from the following websites: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_rule ,
http://www.teachingvalues.com/goldenrule.html , http://www.unification.net/ws/theme015.htm
http://www.humanreligions.info/golden.html , http://www.goldenruleproject.org/HTML/more_formulations.htm ,
http://www.humanismforschools.org.uk/pdfs/the%20golden%20rule.pdf , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-aggression_principle , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harm_Principle , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_long_spoons , http://www.goldenrule4everyone.com/
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"The case for all individuals in any society ideally wanting freedom to choose for themselves with all the facts and opinions - i.e. informed choice - as well as freedom from fraud and freedom from force comes from considering our own experiences of when we have had these and when we haven't, especially our feelings and our creativity and productivity, and extrapolating those through empathy into others. " - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"Five really useful ideas, expressed in simple phrases, for living with others with liberty and dignity are: 1- 'Live and let live'; 2- 'Freedom from fraud and force' or in other words 3- 'Informed consent' 4- 'Do to others as you'd like them to do to you, usually called the Golden Rule, and 5- 'Caveat emptor' which means the buyer or chooser should beware of being taken advantage of and deceived." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"Information and education, especially about consequences, is of great benefit but it is still the individual in a free society that is responsible for choosing what they do which effects only their life, liberty and pursuit of happiness; namely informed consent or life without fraud or force are required to make the most of individual freedom and personal responsibility after reaching the age of reason and therefore consent." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"[Ethics, morality, individualism, authenticity, tolerance and freedom:] When people are very different from you, rather than think how strange they are, think how boring life would be if everyone was the same and how important it is - if each person is to have their birth-right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and private property - to let everyone, so long as they are not physically hurting, threatening, forcing or defrauding anyone, 'live and let live'." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"[Morality and ethics: Good ends do not justify bad means:] The desire to help those less fortunate does not justify the denying of the rights of others to a life of freedom from force or fraud. [i.e. Robbing the 'rich' to give to the 'poor' is still robbing! The rich can only be persuaded - not forced or defrauded!!]" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"[Morality and ethics: reciprocity and the Golden Rule of treating others as you'd like to be treated; equal inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and property; freedom, individualism, diversity and tolerance; live and let live:] Individuals, groups and societies that value and support freedom from 'fraud and force' should not be surprised to see as a consequence increasing numbers and extremes of radical - but still honest, peaceful, tolerant and voluntary, - minorities and individuals." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"[Morality and ethics: 'live and let live - if free from force and fraud':] In a society with a social contract that respects freedom from force and fraud, you should not be surprised to be exposed to a lot of 'individuality' including extremely 'unusual' even 'strange' speech, beliefs, behavior, etc - so long as it is peaceful and voluntary and not deceptive. This is the price we all have to pay to ensure everyone's - including our own - right to free, informed choice, without force, coercion or fraud, in our pursuit of our self-defined 'best'- selves, life, liberty, happiness and property." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"The government's role, construction and funding, among other things, including how to change these things, are determined by the 'social contract' or 'constitution' entered into by the governed." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"[Morality and ethics; reciprocity - the Golden Rule of treating others as you and they would like to be treated; IDIC = Infinite Diversity Infinitely Combined without force or fraud; individual freedom and personal responsibility in voluntary and honest situations:] Different things are right for different people, places, events and needs...just like the old sayings, 'Horses for courses' and 'menus for venues'.
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"[Morality and ethics; 'Live and let live' so long as free from force and fraud; diversity, individuality, authenticity:] The nail that sticks out - so long as free from force and fraud - should'nt get hammered down." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
Reverse of the Japanese Proverb 'The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.'
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"[Morality and ethics; Law and order; War and peace; Self-Defense and Martial Arts:] Human Rights, in particular Justice, reasonably requires, in the social contract, as a bare minimum, informed consent and therefore freedom from force and fraud. Because of this 'might is right' 'trial by combat', including war, - where God is supposed to decide by supporting who is right - and perjury to persuade others unfairly cannot be accepted as just. It is not the 'Law of civilized human society' but rather the 'Law of savage animals'!" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"[Crime and punishment - Law and order; Morality and ethics:] Law should be based on a moral philosophy enshrined in a clear, social contract. For example the principle of informed, voluntary choice, specifically freedom from force and fraud!" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"[Morality and ethics; empathy, sympathy, compassion; 'The Golden Rule of treating others as you'd like to be treated':-] When we stop making the effort to imagine other people's individual minds and emotions, needs and desires, so we can understand them to at least some small degree, and so empathise and sympathise with them, it becomes dangerously easy to deny them the most basic fundamental human need and desire - as expressed explicitly or implicitly in social contracts and laws - for freedom from force and fraud and to rationalise selfishness that hurts others including that good ends justify bad means!" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"[Morality and ethics:] The Chain-Web-Net of Value and Social Gratitude: For each thing you have it is possible to ask, ‘Who and what can I thank for that?’ and then ‘Who and what would that person also feel they should thank for what they contributed?’ And so on almost endlessly. Think of the essay, ‘I Pencil’ which describes all the people involved in the making of a pencil as an example of this Chain-Web-Net of Value and therefore the Chain-Web-Net of Social Gratitude! [Keep this in mind when you awake, before you retire for the night and when you say 'Grace', 'toasts' and 'Give Thanks' before you eat or drink. Even have others, especially children, contribute more names and people to the thanks, to help you and them learn to appreciate everyone's contribution and to regularly express their gratitude. In free moments during the day or to help induce a deep feeling of social gratitude, meditate on this Chain-Web-Net of Value and on feeling and expressing gratitude to all involved.]" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"[Morality and ethics - a social contract that ensures freedom from force and fraud while still allowing and even encouraging our uniqueness, life, liberty and pursuit of happiness; Self-expression, self-actualization, individual freedom and personal responsibility, individualism, identity, authenticity, eccentricity:] So long as there is freedom from force and fraud then live and let live - you do you and go your own way!" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"[Government by consent of the governed through a social contract-constitution; Limited small government versus unlimited, large government; Law and order; Morality and ethics – freedom from force and fraud:] The moral philosophy of not using force or fraud to physically hurt someone or their extended ‘physical self’ in the form of their ‘property’ is a useful and workable base foundation for a social contract that could regulate a ‘libertarian’ - maximum individual freedom society. It could only be physical hurt rather than including emotional hurt too because physical hurt is easy to see and therefore choose to avoid on the one hand and punish on the other, while if emotional hurt was included then at any time and following any behaviour anyone could be and or claim emotional hurt and no-one could know beforehand or disagree and therefore it would be indeterminable and therefore unenforceable. So the emotional hurt would need to be something that while not condoned was accepted as the price for the maximum of individual freedom, and then up to each individual to manage their response within themselves and others to be only non-physical. Then beyond that social life and meeting individual and group needs would be a matter of information, persuasion and personal, informed voluntary choice. Empathetic altruism could still be a personal or group choice but it could not be dictated by force or fraud by individuals, or groups – including religions and governments unless also decided as part of the social contract or ‘constitution’, which would need to include the regularly re-confirmed, voluntary informed consent of all those covered by that constitution – or an agreed upon majority or group, etc., as detailed and agreed by that constitution with agreed methods of judging transgressions and enforcing punishment and re-education, solving disagreements and changing that social constitution-contract-agreement." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"[Morality and ethics:] The golden rule is to do unto others as you’d have them do unto you; the platinum rule is to do unto others as they’d want done unto them. The golden rule requires empathic imagination. The platinum rule requires empathic empathy, asking them to tell you how they’d like to be treated and providing an environment for their informed choice through a social contract that provides equal freedom from force and fraud for all involved." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"[Life-skills; children; morality and ethics:-] Rather than giving a person a fish and then have to give them another each day, the kindest thing to all concerned – yourself included – is to teach them to fish for themselves. Then they can fish as much or as little and for whichever type of fish they need and want. Empower the other person so they have the freedom and know-how to care for themselves as and when they themselves want to be cared for!" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"[Morality and ethics - freedom from force and fraud: Conversation, persuasion and effective sales explanations, demonstrations, questions, rebuttles, objections, dismissals and rejections: The emotion of anger - and its associated behavior force, while often natural, are rarely the most constructive - or socially acceptable and civilized - ways to overcome an unmet need or frustrated desire - a problem, puzzle, difficulty, etc. At these times it is better to get more information so you can learn, imagine, plan and problem-solve better, alone and with the help of others. So remember... ] Get curious, not furious!" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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