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 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 a victim-crime:

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. Interfere with another person’s right 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 other is the common fundamental moral root that anchors a civilized 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.