14. Ethics, Morality and Justice

Ethics, morality and justice are crucial to free societies. Rights are corollary. All four necessitate thought, which implies judging and making choices, accepting an idea, opinion, plan, or valuation, or rejecting it for another while remaining conscious of the rejected alternatives. Every action shadow testifies to refusing what could have resulted.

Ethics

That suggests a science or code of ethics devoted to how men and women should think of life values and life itself, respectively, of self and others. Its premises are straightforward.

• Life: Nothing is more pertinent to every man, woman, or child on earth than life itself. Life is the base reference for all that concerns it. Life differentiates ethics from its lack and morality from immorality.
• Virtues are attitudes, values, or developed character traits that enable us to act in life-supporting ways that foster and master our potential. These uphold our spiritual essence.
• Respect is the voluntary endorsement of the vital need to support one’s life by legally exercising one’s faculties. The same applies to not hindering or harming the lives of others.

As mentioned elsewhere, the conscious process interfaces physicality and spirituality. We each live a spiritual life, albeit in a material world. Physicality is merely a toolbox for exercising our spiritual life and nature. We are creators, and we need to learn that.

Initially, I decided to write a code of ethics based on my findings. My greatest delight was comprehending that nature had already determined ethics to be a science and written it within human nature. Our task is to discover, understand, and live it. Nothing more is needed.

We each are a living, breathing, walking advertisement of our ethics and morality, not only as a visible image, but our ethical standing is emotionally (not energetically) transmitted by ourselves and received by others.

Morality is the enacted expression of one’s ethical principles. Immorality, in contrast, manifests a lack or refusal of ethical considerations, a lack of moral discipline, or a lack of justness.

This comprehension suggests a science, or code of morality, describing how men and women should act and behave based on ethical principles respective of self and the lives of all others. Its premises are equally straightforward.

• Precedence: Morality is the (enacted) product of our ethical (or unethical) choices and intentions. Ethics harms no one but ourselves, while immorality harms others.
• Virtues: Virtues, attitudes, values, and developed character traits that foster and master our material and spiritual potential are the source of our enacted morality.
• Respect: Considered respect for others manifests an enacted morality entirely conducive to ‘individual rights,’ without which rights, morality, and respect vanish.
• Justness: Justness is the sum of just actions, a testament to our morality. Justness unto ourselves must manifest as justness unto others, or it is a lie.

Such a code of morality would be independent of human opinion, rule, and authoritarian interpretation. Its purpose would be to instill respect for individuals' moral order, not command a collectivised society. 

Morality is the enactment of self-mastery that honours and ensures freedom for others. To that extent, it provides our freedom.

• Ethics are our (value-based) benchmark.
• Justness and morality are our social benchmarks, the sum of just actions and the testament to our morality.

So now we have an answer to the question — ‘how can uniform moral uprightness be achieved if each chooses their own? As a collective, we cannot, but as individuals, we each can. Everything in our nature and its governing laws urge that we should. We may consider the resultant implications by ascribing ethics to the thought process and morality to behaviour.

• Ethics and morality are removed from the (collective)’ political domain’ and placed squarely in the individual’s ‘private domain.’
• Morality demands our unalienable right to life and inalienable right to our property be fully protected from violation and usurpation. Such protection arbitrates just restoration when needed. Without individual rights, morality is unprotected.
• Convivial society results from moral actions in aggregate.
• Independence, one from another, enters with respect for each other.
• Co-operation amongst equals, or one’s likes, results in mutual benefits.
• Those who prize ethics and morality as spiritual progenitors of life relish these steering virtues because others learn to respect and unceasing justness from their joint dealings. Moral actions are the flip side of natural justice.

Do you see how a life-based philosophy develops from ethics and morality derived from natural law inherent in the conscious process? Of course, people may howl in protest. “How on earth will immoral behaviour be arrested if we each morally govern ourselves?” That’s easy because everyone who commits an immoral action self-confesses guilt through their action(s). Once their trespass is proven, natural justice (lawfully) steps in, and the question vanishes. No judge must rule against them because they have already ruled against themselves.

Morality

Thus, with governmental prescriptions gone, a new definition of morality and its subset qualities becomes almost self-evident.

Morality is the conscious will to live according to one’s nature and never deprive others of the same opportunity. 

Briefly stated, ‘actions and behaviour publicly testify our pre-conceived moral stature and confessed moral accountability.’

Morality does not prescribe natural law and never can it. Therefore, we are constrained to deal with the consequences of our actions, just as we are obligated to learn from our feelings. If we fail, consequences redouble, and we get hit once more.

That is how nature upholds our values, ethics, actions, and morality while preserving our free will. That inbuilt protection is what no authoritarian ruler will admit because their evil empire would collapse within hours!

Fortunately, nature’s ‘Natural Law of No Trespass’ is not open to debate or consensus agreement. It is an immutable scientific fact of self that has existed since the advent of man and is not open to erasure. It is as though we are told by nature’s source, “I’ve perfected societal governing within your very self, precisely so that you may translate its Natural Laws into your societies.”

What is so beautiful is that spiritually-based ethics are none less than spiritual life values we put on autopilot. Doing that results in our ethics being fundamentally automated, which subsequently puts our morality on autopilot, as nature intends we should.

Observe how profound all of the above achievements are.

• False beliefs concerning ethics and morality overturn.
• All ‘collectivised’ jurisdictional claims over ethics and morality are invalidated.
• Authoritarian government abandons itself, permitting our self-governance under natural law. 
• Present natural law theories, holding that morality determines natural law, are inverted. Natural law now has a truthful vitality and factual grounding in our nature that no one ever suspected.
• Protective constitutional law now has teeth. It is not an unjustifiable invention, a reality no one can refute, deny, or erase!
• A life-based philosophy is enabled to build and manifest itself.

None of those natural laws are open to opinion or a majority vote. Man’s nature must be the foundation of a Nation’s Constitution, not one’s acclaimed or claimed degrees of achievement or virtues. As free societies take form in ways you’d never imagined, a profound spiritual swelling will arise in your heart that words cannot describe. Full consciousness models a science or code of ethics devoted to nature’s codes of conduct. That teaches men and women how to think of life values and life itself, respecting self and others. Simply stated–

• Ethics is personal. It concerns our thoughts and intentions. Life demands our wilful choice to support and sustain it, never sacrificing its supreme value for anything less. Thoughts, desires, and goals that uphold one’s life are ethical; those that do not are not.
• Morality is social. We manifest morality by our actions. Life implies that we never act to deprive another of their life or the means to support and sustain it. Actions that respectfully uphold the lives of others are moral; those that do not are not.

Ethics and morality are now stripped from the claws of vultures and restored to the hearts of men and women where they rightfully and responsibly belong. Nature’s codes of conduct are ethical and moral intelligence. 

‘Life values’ fuel our ethics. People can upload these values (generally around fifteen in sum) to their subconscious mind for prioritisation. 

Moral actions follow ethical choices, each being automatically appraised, adjudicated, and sentiently reported, rightfully and lawfully so. Responsibility, respect, and rights go hand in glove. Now, Natural law defines morality–

Morality is the conscious will to live according to one’s nature, never depriving others of the same opportunity, as manifested by our (ethic-driven) actions.

All who dispute that individual rights are inherent within the born nature of every man, woman, and child renounce their nature, thereby rendering all their claims or protests invalid and void from pronouncement. Every man, woman, and child is born (equal) into the jurisdiction of life, thereby having equal (unalienable) rights to live free from all incursion and trespass. Likewise, every man and woman has comparable (inalienable) rights to the fruits of their labours to uphold and sustain their lives.

To protect other people’s rights is to guarantee one’s own. Criminals confess crimes by their harmful actions, whereby they convict themselves. Actions that preserve other people’s right to life ensure our rights automatically. Actions violating other people’s rights forfeit our rights automatically. Such actions confess that we are outlaws. Our actions may or may not serve ‘justness’ upon others. Thus, ‘justness’ is enacting one’s morality, while unjustness is immorality. That is how natural justice works.

Justice

‘Natural justice’ is the practice of remediating’ injustice.’ To that end, whoever victimises another voluntarily gives up their rights to correction, remediation, and compensation. This voluntary surrender remains until that crime or aggression is restoratively closed. According to existential natural law, that is the general principle of Natural Justice.

Therefore, no legislature or judiciary of a free society can dictate what justice should be. 

Courts must decide what outcome is just, or else it too is guilty of injustice. Court justices apply the orderly principles of man’s nature to restore orderliness according to the evidence of disorderliness. Shared understanding between like cases (Case Law or Common law) does not and cannot formulate (authoritarian) rules of nature. Orderliness by nature is natural law. Manufactured rules are not.

So, the difference between ‘justness’ and ‘justice’ surfaces. Justness is (first) served by each man and woman, not interfering with or denying any other person their ability to live and sustain their life.

• Only innocent individuals (persons) are free. One guilty of injustice or unjustness is not an individual independent of the victim. 
• Accordingly, Justice is maintained, not enforced.

Most people find that statement impossible to comprehend mentally. Why? Because they believe the exact opposite due to brainwashing. An injustice breaks no law. Trespassers choose to disrespect the law, thereby voluntarily ruling against themselves, which determines the extent of remedy and restoration of the natural order. 

Justice is maintained, not enforced. That statement is an impossible mental hurdle for most people. Why? Because they believe the exact opposite due to brainwashing. An injustice breaks no law. Trespassers choose to disrespect the law, thereby voluntarily ruling against themselves, which determines the extent of remedy and restoration of the natural order. 

Today, procedural rules are formulated by the judiciary outside of courtrooms months or years before. But no more. In a free society, no law-making or law enforcement applies. The only law that must be known, transparent, and specific is the ‘natural law of no trespass.’ No rulings apply now until a (natural law) case is proven.

That core principle of natural justice permits the founding of convivial societies. When each living being is enabled to become self-responsible, each one is their self-regulator, having no prescription for others concerning their choice of religion, morals, politics, interests, ideals, fashions, or any other. A society where each can freely meet, engage, or depart, absent subordination and regulation, would result in the most perfect social order ever witnessed.

It works personally and in the same way as society. Unless we justly and morally deliver to others, we violate our lives, which we professedly uphold. Thus, we hold our own life in contempt, as valueless, by which we confess the need for remediation.

Thus, a person who is not innocent cannot be considered in justice to be free and belong only to himself. He must have done something or something must have happened that gave some other person a lawful claim to his person or deprived him of his standing as a person in the law (perhaps making him an outlaw that anybody can capture at will). If he belongs to any person at all, a non-innocent person must in any case also belong to some other person, if not to his victim or their successors, then to some artificial person such as ‘society’, who derive their right to punish him from the fact that he now belongs to them. While this fact does not exclude him from being a member of an autonomous collective, it does rule out that he is a sovereign person. ‚ Frank van Dun

Morality shifts from a social convention to its proper place as the conveyor of justness originating from its fully accountable place within each (individual) living being.

No one decides justice. It just is.

The discovery, refinement, and systematisation of objective (natural) rules, methods, and procedures are the province of jurisprudence as a rational discipline. Working out the details, conventions, and protocols for an operationally efficient justice system requires knowledge of the general principles of natural law, matched with the judicial dispensation of justice. All legal force is forbidden, whereby natural justice within a free (Protecture) society results.

Such a society will necessarily establish an independent judi­ciary. Judges cannot be politically aligned since political persuasion is prohibited, this being an additional form of the people’s protection. No Justice can strike down unconstitutional laws because none exist. Neither does any exploitation of minorities exist. No Justice can fear retribution by politicians because none exists, but they can fear the people should they rule people’s protection is denied.

Now, you have personal freedom and your means to a free society, both driven by value-based consciousness authored by free will, backed by natural law, and guided by an objective philosophy. Nature did not miss a trick, which behoves us to do likewise by reading the lessons in our nature.