Overview The Legal Principle, “Don’t Aggress” is mandatory, applying equally to all individuals, groups, corporations and governments. It outlaws all acts of aggressing.

‘Aggressing’ is defined as:

1. Initiating nonconsensual physical force against another person or their property;
2. Engaging in fraud;
3. Engaging in coercion;
4. Creating a substantial risk or threat of initiating nonconsensual physical force against another person or their property;
5. Breach someone’s rights to due process;
6. Breaching a valid contract;
7. Engaging in unreasonable conduct causing harm to another person or their property; or
8. 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 aggression, and intolerant of aggressors.