Overview
- The 3L Principle (also known as the ‘Legal Principle’) is: “Don’t Aggress”. It outlaws all acts of aggressing with fair enforcement.
- It is mandatory – all individuals, groups, corporations and governments are equally held to the same reasonable standard of conduct.
- To ‘live’ is to be in charge of your life. That requires being in charge of your body and property. To ‘let live’ is to allow other competent adults to do the same.
‘Aggressing’ is defined as victim-crimes:
- 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;
- Breach 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.
How is the Legal Principle derived?
- Not aggressing against each others is the common fundamental moral root that anchors a civilised society; it is the ‘least common denominator’ of what all reasonable people agree on. Those who wish to aggress against each other are, by definition, unreasonable.
Why is the Legal Principle mandatory?
- A legal system that does not adopt the Legal Principle is one that legally permits institutionalised aggression. Compliance with the Legal Principle cannot be optional if we are to live in a free and peaceful society.
- There are many aggressors around the world – we should expect this. We should feel no remorse in protecting the innocent by subjecting aggressors against their will to the consequences of enforcing the Legal Principle.
- Pursuing a free and peaceful world requires that people are free to live as they choose and that they are not free to aggress against others. We should be tolerant of others to live their life in any way they choose other than aggressing, and intolerant of aggressors.
Additional laws will be required
- There are many aspects of the Legal Principle where reasonable minds disagree on exactly how it should be implemented. Such ‘grey areas’ are typically continuums that require rules to be established by local communities via a reasonable interpretation of the Legal Principle.
The Legal Principle is Comprehensive, Concise and Coherent
- Comprehensive: it provides a roadmap to reasonably resolve all disputes with relative simplicity by including space for local communities to interpret grey areas and determine the necessary additional harmonising laws.
- Concise: it says no more than is necessary.
- Coherent: it applies to all situations fairly and justly, .
