Please consider the following ideas regarding morality, if you are so inclined to do.
I affirm that, although only an approximation to how life actually works, the moral code that follows describes, with a high degree of accuracy, true righteousness and justice. This moral code applies to everybody and everything, everywhere, universally, and without exception. The simple Universal Moral Code to be observed has only 4 major premises, as follows:
1. Each living being belongs only to itself; and each has full rights over its own life.
2. All life has equal rights. Each living being is equal in value or importance to every other living being. No living being or group of beings has any rights, including the rights to exploit, or abuse, or force their own will, upon any other living being or group of beings, unless all beings involved are willing participants.
3. Evil is prohibited. Definition of evil:
a. Evil is violating the above rules.
b. Evil also is anything or anybody that causes any type of harm, pain, suffering, damage, impairment, injury, loss, detriment, distress, affliction, or any other disagreeable experience, or does any injustice, to a living being against its will.
c. Evil is the ONLY deviation from moral rectitude there is. It is wrong. Nobody should do it.
d. Evil is unacceptable. Nobody should tolerate it or put up with it. AND
4. The adoption and observance of this Universal Moral Code is strictly voluntary and can be taken up or discontinued at any time. Adhering to this code will require valor and much strength of character, but it is worth it because the Universal Moral Code will afford full protection to all living beings who fully adhere to it. However, every living being who fails to adhere to it is hereby advised:
Most, or all, of the following will apply to you, depending on how lucky you are:
1. You do not belong to yourself and do not have full rights over your own life. Another being or a group of beings will take ownership of your life and will enslave you in any way they can.
2. Other beings will declare their superiority over you. You and your well-being will be less valuable or important than that of those other beings. Those other beings will have the rights they want to have over your life, including the rights to exploit you, and abuse you, and force their will in your life, even if you are not willing to be subjected to such treatment.
3. Evil will be perpetrated against you. Definition of evil:
a. Evil is anything or anybody that causes any type of harm, pain, suffering, damage, impairment, injury, loss, detriment, distress, affliction, or any other disagreeable experience, or does any injustice, to a living being against its will.
b. Evil is permissible to you also and is morally acceptable. However, complicated laws and moral guidelines will be imposed on you, to keep your society WORKING in an orderly fashion. AND
c. Evil is something you must accept as a fact of life, no matter how oppressive it is to you. You must toughen up, must learn to tolerate evil, must learn to ignore evil, and must look only at the pleasant elements in your life, to delude yourself into feeling that everything is OK.
That is all we need to know in order to be able to distinguish right from wrong. I don’t believe this Universal Moral Code can be proven or disproven to be right and just. I think it is our intuition that tells us whether adopting this moral code is right for us or not. In my case, I know that when somebody hurts me, abuses me, robs me, injures me, or imposes his or her will on me; that is an immoral action for them to do against me. It is evil, and I should NOT put up with it. Instead, I should do everything within my power to put a stop to the injustice. I also realize that I’m the same as everybody else. Everybody else is the same as me. They too want to be happy, to feel good, to be respected, and so on. So, if it is wrong for them to do something to me, then it's is just as wrong for me to do that something to them. Then I also realized that not only human lives deserve this respect, but so do animals, plants, every sentient being, and maybe even every individual life form, even if it seems to have no awareness.
The reason for the above statement is that we are all made of the same stuff. Some scientists believe everything, at the quantum level, is made of the same type of very small particles or waves of matter, or strings, that turn out to be made of the same fundamental substance. Some people believe this fundamental substance is energy. Some people believe that consciousness is the fundamental substance that makes up everything. I believe that both, energy and consciousness, or intelligence, are the basic substances, out of which everything is made. But even if all of that turns out not to be true, the common element in all living beings is life. What really matters is that we are all individual living beings, who are made up of the same fundamental life, as every other living being is; therefore, all of us, living beings, have the same rights and value, in a similar way to how every individual gram of pure gold has the same value as all other individual grams of pure gold.
There may be many details relating to the way life works that I am yet to figure out, but what I can say, without fear of being wrong, is that karma is a bitch, baby! What goes around comes around. You reap what you sow. Every cause has an effect. And, for every action, there is an equivalent reaction that comes in the opposite direction (although, not necessarily right away).
May all of us find a way to what we desire, and a way to stay away from what we don't.
I affirm that, although only an approximation to how life actually works, the moral code that follows describes, with a high degree of accuracy, true righteousness and justice. This moral code applies to everybody and everything, everywhere, universally, and without exception. The simple Universal Moral Code to be observed has only 4 major premises, as follows:
1. Each living being belongs only to itself; and each has full rights over its own life.
2. All life has equal rights. Each living being is equal in value or importance to every other living being. No living being or group of beings has any rights, including the rights to exploit, or abuse, or force their own will, upon any other living being or group of beings, unless all beings involved are willing participants.
3. Evil is prohibited. Definition of evil:
a. Evil is violating the above rules.
b. Evil also is anything or anybody that causes any type of harm, pain, suffering, damage, impairment, injury, loss, detriment, distress, affliction, or any other disagreeable experience, or does any injustice, to a living being against its will.
c. Evil is the ONLY deviation from moral rectitude there is. It is wrong. Nobody should do it.
d. Evil is unacceptable. Nobody should tolerate it or put up with it. AND
4. The adoption and observance of this Universal Moral Code is strictly voluntary and can be taken up or discontinued at any time. Adhering to this code will require valor and much strength of character, but it is worth it because the Universal Moral Code will afford full protection to all living beings who fully adhere to it. However, every living being who fails to adhere to it is hereby advised:
Most, or all, of the following will apply to you, depending on how lucky you are:
1. You do not belong to yourself and do not have full rights over your own life. Another being or a group of beings will take ownership of your life and will enslave you in any way they can.
2. Other beings will declare their superiority over you. You and your well-being will be less valuable or important than that of those other beings. Those other beings will have the rights they want to have over your life, including the rights to exploit you, and abuse you, and force their will in your life, even if you are not willing to be subjected to such treatment.
3. Evil will be perpetrated against you. Definition of evil:
a. Evil is anything or anybody that causes any type of harm, pain, suffering, damage, impairment, injury, loss, detriment, distress, affliction, or any other disagreeable experience, or does any injustice, to a living being against its will.
b. Evil is permissible to you also and is morally acceptable. However, complicated laws and moral guidelines will be imposed on you, to keep your society WORKING in an orderly fashion. AND
c. Evil is something you must accept as a fact of life, no matter how oppressive it is to you. You must toughen up, must learn to tolerate evil, must learn to ignore evil, and must look only at the pleasant elements in your life, to delude yourself into feeling that everything is OK.
That is all we need to know in order to be able to distinguish right from wrong. I don’t believe this Universal Moral Code can be proven or disproven to be right and just. I think it is our intuition that tells us whether adopting this moral code is right for us or not. In my case, I know that when somebody hurts me, abuses me, robs me, injures me, or imposes his or her will on me; that is an immoral action for them to do against me. It is evil, and I should NOT put up with it. Instead, I should do everything within my power to put a stop to the injustice. I also realize that I’m the same as everybody else. Everybody else is the same as me. They too want to be happy, to feel good, to be respected, and so on. So, if it is wrong for them to do something to me, then it's is just as wrong for me to do that something to them. Then I also realized that not only human lives deserve this respect, but so do animals, plants, every sentient being, and maybe even every individual life form, even if it seems to have no awareness.
The reason for the above statement is that we are all made of the same stuff. Some scientists believe everything, at the quantum level, is made of the same type of very small particles or waves of matter, or strings, that turn out to be made of the same fundamental substance. Some people believe this fundamental substance is energy. Some people believe that consciousness is the fundamental substance that makes up everything. I believe that both, energy and consciousness, or intelligence, are the basic substances, out of which everything is made. But even if all of that turns out not to be true, the common element in all living beings is life. What really matters is that we are all individual living beings, who are made up of the same fundamental life, as every other living being is; therefore, all of us, living beings, have the same rights and value, in a similar way to how every individual gram of pure gold has the same value as all other individual grams of pure gold.
There may be many details relating to the way life works that I am yet to figure out, but what I can say, without fear of being wrong, is that karma is a bitch, baby! What goes around comes around. You reap what you sow. Every cause has an effect. And, for every action, there is an equivalent reaction that comes in the opposite direction (although, not necessarily right away).
May all of us find a way to what we desire, and a way to stay away from what we don't.
