Life on Mars, Peace on Earth.
One of our ultimate goals with the 3LM should be that wherever one stands on planet Earth, all laws in that place reflect at least a reasonable construction of the LP, and people fairly enforce them with due process.
Summary
The Live and Let Live Global Peace Movement recognizes each human’s freedom to live, to the extent they allow others the same right.
The two founding principles:
1) The Legal Principle: all acts of aggression must be outlawed, applying equally to every individual, group, corporation and government.
2) The Moral Principle: we should aspire to be excellent humans.
Freedom is a prerequisite for peace; forced morality is an oxymoron. Peace requires allowing local communities to implement different interpretations of the Legal Principle where reasonable minds disagree.
The Movement’s aims to align all laws globally with the Legal Principle, while inspiring all people to voluntarily adopt the Moral Principle.
Definitions
“Aggression” (The Legal Principle) is defined as:
- Initiating nonconsensual physical force against another person or their property;
- Engaging in fraud;
- Engaging in coercion;
- Creating a substantial risk or threat of initiating nonconsensual physical force against another person or their property;
- Breaching someone’s rights to due process;
- Breaching a valid contract;
- Engaging in unreasonable conduct causing harm to another person or their property; or
- Breaching a fiduciary duty.
The aspirational values offered for defining ‘excellent’ (The Moral Principle) are:
- High Character – truth, trust and virtue.
a) Commit to truth: pursue truth, be honest.
b) Build high levels of trust: honor your word.
c) Virtue: do what’s right. Embody the 4 ancient virtues of Wisdom, Courage, Justice, Temperance.
- Respect – see the good in others.
a) Commitment to think win/win: align self-interest with others for mutual benefit.
b) Open-mindedness: have the humility and willingness to consider new or different ideas and improve one’s own.
c) Tolerance: accept people’s differences in thought, action, and belief.
d) Civility towards others: maintain goodwill, politeness, and respect, even in disagreement.
- Contribution – help others and better yourself.
a) Voluntary/loving kindness: be caring and compassionate to others without expectations.
b) Consistent self-improvement: aim high, fall short, do well. Setbacks are our teachers; the obstacle is the way. Inspire others by your example.
Aspirational Values
- High Character – truth, trust and virtue.
- Commit to truth: pursue truth, be honest.
- Build high levels of trust: honor your word.
- Virtue: do what’s right. Embody the 4 ancient virtues of Wisdom, Courage, Justice, Temperance.
- Respect – see the good in others.
- Commitment to think win/win: align self-interest with others for mutual benefit.
- Open-mindedness: have the humility and willingness to consider new or different ideas and improve one’s own.
- Tolerance: accept people’s differences in thought, action, and belief.
- Civility towards others: maintain goodwill, politeness, and respect, even in disagreement.
- Contribution – help others and better yourself.
- Voluntary/loving kindness: be caring and compassionate to others without expectations.
- Consistent self-improvement: aim high, fall short, do well. Setbacks are our teachers; the obstacle is the way. Inspire others by your example.
[108 word summary] – include the disagreement on specifics; many issues sit on a continuum, with the exact point at which a wrong occurs is subject to debate; let local community decide.
The Live and Let Live Global Peace Movement is the world’s only real peace movement. We’re confident of this because the two principles upon which we’re founded are the two pre-requisites for peace.
- The first is freedom: peace via coercion is an oxymoron. By ‘freedom’ we really mean the protection of property rights. This does not make us pro capitalism, materialism or consumerism, although, to the extent that they don’t cause a harm to others, we’re not against those things either. Your body and peacefully acquired things are your property, so murder and rape are property rights breaches.
Humanity is stuck in an immature pattern of righting wrongs with wrongs. To mature out of it and align with our better nature, we must gain awareness of this habit of pursuing harmony by force. Morality by coercion is an oxymoron; it’s a circular reference error because forcing peaceful people against their will is itself immoral. Though the problem is systemic the solution is incredibly simple: we must simply stop initiating aggression. At this point most people start to think ‘well, I don’t initiate aggression – I don’t even know anyone who does!’ So let me be more specific. A victim is someone who is involuntarily subjected to aggression. Do you agree? So when we arrest someone for a victimless crime, actually we are the aggressor, and the only victim Is the supposed criminal!
Live and let live; aggress only against aggressors – who started it is key.
Victimless crimes
3L puts the emphasis on bio-regions, rather than national borders [how does this fit with a federalist system?]
If indeed the path to hell is paved with naive good intentions, but the path to peace is paved with practical principles. To mature out of this habit of paving the road to hell with our well intentioned coercive means.
make right out of wrongs; seeking harmony via aggression. It’s not working, and wont work
If the road to hell Is paved with good intentions, then the path to peace is paved with practical
Concentric circles of responsibility – myself, family, community, country, continent, world.
Healthy kind and productive
Hope for the world In a nutshell: allow response-ability. Being inspired to smell a rose, then doing so, is response ability. Feeling a sense of hunger, and acting upon it is response-ability. All that we are doing in our human bodies is really mastering the art of wise response-ability. When we fail to Live and Let Live, what we’re doing is imposing our will on others by denying their response-ability.
Being yourself, and responding to life in the best ways we can, is how we share the gift of our uniqueness with the world. We have an ability to respond (responsibility) to our needs [physiological, safety, belonging, esteem and spiritual needs].
Being able to be yourself
Because we deny so much natural response-ability, life is on hard-mode.
For some, the best options
Live and Let Live is about allowing peaceful responsibility, and being intolerant of aggression, so that life can be on easy-mode – each one of us learning to respond to life in the best way we can. This is not something that others can d
Being our authentic self is the best gift we can offer the world. In spiritual
We are our best when we’re are own authentic selves.
Our gift to the world is to be ourselves – our own unique expression of
We are our best when we are ourselves –
Christ Consciousness, Buddha Mind, Return to the Fitrah of Allah,
The origional Greek word for sin meant ‘missing the target’ – it insinuates that your life is like an arrow with its own unique target… when we compare ourselves with others, ‘compari-sin’, we miss our own target.
The opposite of the patronizing view that ‘I know what is best for you and will force my will upon you’
The Live and Let Live Global Peace Movement is based on a practical philosophy consisting of two principles: the Legal Principle (‘don’t aggress’) and the Moral Principle (’be an excellent human’). Our goal is to calibrate all laws with
The Legal Principle (LP) – “Don’t Aggress!” The Legal Principle is mandatory, applying equally to all individuals, groups, corporations and governments. The Legal Principle outlaws all acts of aggression.
A legal system that does not adopt the Legal Principle is one that legally permits institutionalised aggression.
- Live and Let Live – it’s in its name. People should be free to live however they choose so long as they allow others to do the same; let live. The logic identified in the phrase, ‘live and let live’, is that the one essential prescription (which could be called a law, morality or right) is that we must not aggress against each other.
- The root of all the biggest avoidable problems humanity faces is aggression. Peaceful co-existence requires freedom. Freedom is ensured by adherence to the Legal Principle; that no person, group, corporation or government initiate physical force against another person or their property, commit fraud, threaten or create substantial risks of harm. This concept is both ancient and widely agreed upon; it’s the Golden Rule. The application of this insight removes the vast majority of laws and regulations that impede intelligent responsibility, whilst not throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
- We must separate morality from the law if we are to avoid the endless fights over whose morality is superior. For reasonable people, the common fundamental root of our shared moral values is that we don’t aggress against each other – we make this the law; the mandatory Legal Principle. In contrast, the Moral Principle is not mandatory, because there are reasonable disagreements about which aspirational values and behaviours are optimal in different circumstances. That being said, the Moral Principle is far broader and perhaps even more important for achieving peace on earth – the Legal Principle is the bare minimum requirement.
- We must replace the coercive systems of tax, subsidy and unprincipled regulation with voluntary systems that align with the Moral Principle of kindness, tolerance and high character. A free society must benefit everyone, even those who currently feel dependent on the coercive systems.
- Reasonable minds, equally committed to the Legal Principle of not aggressing, honestly disagree about specific interpretations of this principle applied to complex issues, like abortion and many others. Peaceful co-existence requires that we allow local communities to decide for themselves on their own reasonable interpretations of the Legal Principle.
- The transition to a free and peaceful society cannot take place overnight because of the pervasive dependencies we have on the existing systems of coercion to maintain a functioning society. Like a heroin addict going sober, the withdrawals themselves can be as deadly as the drug. The transition must be neither too slow (given the existential risks) nor too fast. Live and Let Live does not prescribe a one-size-fits-all plan or pace of the transition, but outlines a clear vision of the destination. This vision is not utopian – we expect and must prepare for the threat of aggression, even though these risks would be greatly mitigated relative to the status quo.
- The Live and Let Live Global Peace Movement provides a blueprint for humanity to achieve peace. It does not offer a utopia, nor does it expect to achieve global peace, given how broadly ‘peace’ is defined. We do believe it’s better than what we have now. We’re committed to excellence and remain open minded to any challenges and suggestions for improvement.
- A coordinated global plan for effectively addressing the greatest substantial risks to humanity, like nuclear bombs, synthetic biology and AI, is unavoidable given the global nature of the risks. A global peace movement based on correct fundamental principles is the best foundation for addressing these urgent issues.
