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1.5.12 Ethical ImplicationsVersion 1.0 October 2022                           (Previous Version) How do our core ethical values fit together? How does valuing Life, Love, Equality and Responsibility fit with the Golden Rule or Human Rights? How are these values applied to victimless crimes or the crimes of being harmlessly different? What does ethics cover? This section covers the implications of choosing the four core ethical values of Life, Love, Equality and Responsibility in the context of other approaches to ethics. It also discusses the range of things that can be properly addressed by ethics and the implications for crime and punishment. This section doesn’t cover the details of controversial contemporary issues, such as recreational drugs, gambling, pornography, blasphemy, lese-majesty, apostasy, homosexuality and LGBTQI+ issues, the death penalty, assisted dying, and abortion. These are addressed in Section 6.1.4. Here we discuss some of the principles that are applicable to such controversies. In Part 7 on Politics we discuss that ethical organizations, governments, corporations, charities and families, must adopt similar values as individuals. Consequently we as individuals must accept that they are entitled to take action to promote everyone’s well-being, including minimizing self-harm. We look at these issues under the following headings.
We summarize the conclusions we can reasonably come to on these issues as follows: 1.5.12 The pragmatic core values of Truth, Diversity and Reality, and the ethical core values of Life, Love, Equality and Responsibility all impact on how the others must be interpreted, even though each has its own genesis in our philosophy. 2.      We accept a minimal degree of punishment as vengeance solely to retain popular support for a more effective but less punitive justice system. Where unduly harsh punishments still apply political activism and leadership are required to educate the populace to accept the least suffering that is effective. 3.      Our core values justify following the Golden Rule, to do unto other as you would have others do unto you, but also show that this rule has its limitations; it is an ancillary value, useful only when supporting core values. 4.      Human rights are a popular way to express values, but our core values provide a better approach that accepts the fragility of our value choices. 5.      Actions that do no harm should not be treated as crimes, including pornography, sexual acts, drug taking, language use and gambling. 6.      Harmless differences, in caste, race, colour, religion, age, sex, gender, class, abilities, or being neurologically atypical should not be criminalised, or used to deem the same action wrong if done by one and not another. 7.      Ethics covers minimizing harm and suffering and promoting happiness and well-being – through action and inaction – and nothing more.  more
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