There is more that unites us than divides us.
- Even with our different opinions and values, we have the potential to live in harmony as one human family.
- Are you willing to sacrifice the potential for world peace and brotherly love between all humans, just to have your preferred moral view forced on everyone else? Because if we make an exception for your moral preference, what argument is there against others imposing their moral preferences on you?
- Prejudiced generalisations divide us. Divisions haemorrhage our energy, and detract from our creative potential. Racists, classists, sexists and people who are intolerant of differing lifestyle choices exacerbate societal divisions to the detriment of a peaceful coexistence.
Rules about human interactions fall into two categories:
- How we must not treat each other
- How we should treat each other
- The way to sort them is by whether someone aggressed. Did the behavior cause a non-consensual physical harm to someone else? These ‘must not’ victim crimes are the realm of the law. Everything else is morality. Forcing morality on others is something we must not do.
Peace requires two things:
- the absence of aggressing,
- the presence of kindness.
We have only two choices regarding law and morality:
- We endlessly struggle with each other to control and calibrate the law in an attempt to force our moral judgments on everyone else, or
- We resolve to keep our moral judgments outside the law.
We can reduce all political ideologies, parties, and positions to two groups:
- Those advocating for aggressing and