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4. Individual morality, ethics and justice

4. Individual Morality Ethics and Justice

Individual morality is not a social mandate. The conscious process shows that ethics are our life-supporting choices that, in turn, almost invariably become life-supporting actions or moral behaviour. This does not mean that ethics and morality are naturally inherent, but the means for their accomplishment are. Ethical thoughts and moral actions are conducive to values embraced by the protective and supportive functions of the subconscious mind, but free will determines their presence or absence.

The conscious process diagram (Value Transfer Wave) shows that our fully automated subconscious mind envelopes free will; hence, value communication between our two minds is more spiritual than material. This communication is known as psycho-epistemology, and its study reveals that the engine of ‘integration,’ encrypted in our human nature, drives the conscious process, yet we (free will) author the content that it processes. Content and process are two different elements of what we call consciousness.

Ethics Morality Justice

Novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand showed the world that every man’s highest moral purpose is the achievement of his happiness. She taught the world about the morality of happiness, individual morality, what it is, and how to achieve it. My works now impart the definitive means of that accomplishment intrinsically and factually grounded in our conscious process.

No one can dispute this objectivity in life and the values and facts of nature without relinquishing their nature. The prime tenets of an objective philosophy and our conscious process are axiomatic, meaning we must use them to dispute them. They unite as one unstoppable power consented, validated, and endorsed by nature, all reproach and dissent denied, all naysayers sent packing, never to return.

Rand informed us that the universe is intelligible and that we can know how a man can find happiness on Earth. Moreover, we can choose to think (or not), choose our goals, and achieve them, thus bringing success or distress according to our innate power to direct our lives. Rand showed us why we should and how value-based tenets are our tools of choice.

My expanded knowledge of the whole conscious process pressed hard on my mind. So, following ’Conscious Ascendance,’ I published ‘Navigate to Freedom’ in 2022. It shows how we can transpose sociology, ethics, individual morality and justice, plus intrinsic natural law, into free human societies, unlike anything the world has ever witnessed.

Individual morality

As just described, full consciousness reveals the relationship between ‘private’ ethics and ‘public’ morality.

Ethically: Life demands our wilful choice to support and sustain it, never sacrificing its supreme value to anything lesser. Thoughts, desires and goals that uphold one’s life are ethical—those that do not, are not.

Morally: Life impels us never to act to deprive another of his or 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.INSERT THE VTW MORAL DIAGRAM

Nature has modelled the (natural law) principles of ethics, morality, and natural justice, smack in the core of our conscience and emotional reporting systems, exactly where they belong! Several results manifest once ‘ethics’ is ascribed to the thought process and morality to behaviour.

Most of today’s beliefs concerning ethics and morality are overturned.
Ethics and morality are separated from each other as objective sciences.
Justness and justice concern (moral) actions, not prior (ethical) intentions.
Ethics and morality are removed from the public domain of government and placed squarely in the private domain of sovereign individuals to which they rightfully belong.
All ‘collectivised’ jurisdictional claims over ethics and morality are invalidated.
’Moral relativism’ is irrevocably crushed.

Ethics attests to nature’s codes of conduct.

This suggests a science or code of ethics devoted to nature’s codes of conduct, specifically how men and women should think of life values and life itself, oneself and others. For example–

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: Virtues are attitudes, values, or developed character traits that enable us to act in life-supporting ways to foster and master our potential. These uphold our spiritual essence.

Respect: Respect is the voluntary endorsement of the vital need to support one’s life by lawfully exercising one’s faculties. The same applies to not hindering or harming the lives of others.

The Value Transfer Wave shows a point at which our cognitive thoughts and intentions cease, and subconscious enactment begins. This simple fact shows that ethics precedes morality. Both have been modelled by nature’s source Creator right in the heart of our conscious process in sequential order in full support of our lives and societal dealings with others. The difference is unmistakable.

Ethics is personal. It concerns our thoughts and intentions

Morality is social. We manifest morality by our actions.

Yet we’ve all been brainwashed to believe the exact opposite. People are taught that morality concerns our thoughts and intentions, while ethics refers to rules of conduct for professional business practices such as medical and legal services. That error needs correction.

Ethically: Life demands our wilful choice to support and sustain it, never sacrificing its supreme value to anything lesser. Thoughts, desires and goals that uphold one’s life are ethical—those that do not are not. Ethics are expressly divorced from morality. Ethics apply to thinking and deliberation before choosing an action.
Morally: Life urges us never to 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. Morality applies to actions and not to thoughts that precede them.

That distinction allows ethical and moral education to be formulated, written and taught across all curricula from preparatory school onwards. Aristotle reached similar conclusions. Thus, ethics and morality are separated. Observably, therefore–

The point at which we commit to action is where our ethical thoughts and considerations cease being private. Our behaviour affects others — this demonstration is our morality or its lack. Our intentions and values are transferred from our private domain into society, now open to public scrutiny. Grasp how vitally important this is. The subconscious mind delivers a perception report concerning our actions and an emotional report. Hence, we each are a living, breathing, walking advertisement of our ethics and morality, received by others visibly and emotionally.

Now consider the often repeated saying that ‘service to others comes before service to self.’ Does it? Your freely chosen, value-based ethics are indeed a service to yourself. However, since ethical thoughts eventually manifest as moral actions, what first serves you is your service to others, morally (or immorally). You’ve (morally) shown what is possible individually and upheld others choice to emulate your achievements. We may choose to assist others, but that is not our moral duty.

Here is the beauty of it all. ‘Life values’ fuel our ethics. They can be uploaded to the subconscious mind and put on autopilot. Do that, and you’ve put your morality on autopilot. Your individual moral service to others is now automated.

Morality testifies nature’s codes of conduct.

This suggests that individual morality is a part of Nature’s codes of conduct, namely a science or code of morality, describing how men and women should act and behave based on ethical principles of self and the lives of all others. Its premises are straightforward.

Precedence: Individual morality results from our ethical or unethical choices and intentions. Ethics harms no one but ourselves. 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: Respect for others is the manifestation of an enacted morality entirely conducive to ‘individual rights,’ without which the right to life of all others and all respect for life is denied.
Justness: Justness is the sum of just actions, a testament to our morality. Justness unto ourselves must manifest as justness unto others, or else we lie.

Necessarily, such a code of morality would be independent of human opinion, rule and authoritarian interpretation. Howls of protest would undoubtedly follow.“How on earth will immoral behaviour be arrested if we govern ourselves?”

The answer lies in the Natural Law of Just Consequence, revealed by the conscious process. It informs that every instigator of an immoral action publicly confesses guilt through their action(s). The question is answered thereby. Once guilt is established, the particular trespass or violation of another’s life is inescapable. One’s immoral or unjust actions self-confess one’s guilt and liability for remediation.

Altogether, it is as though nature’s source Creator said, ‘I’ve perfected societal governing within your very self, precisely so that you may translate nature's Intrinsic Laws into your societies.’

Our right to live is exclusively independent and immutable. Our life is ours. Our singularity, beautiful uniqueness, and the natural order of our life ordain boundaries separating us from others. Our rights, words, deeds, works, and property are separated from another’s and from other things. Nothing could be simpler or more in tune with nature herself.

Ethics are our personal benchmark.

Justness and morality are our social benchmarks, the sum of just actions and the testament to our morality.

Free will is the author of all.

Nature’s codes of conduct are complete. We have an answer to the question — ‘how can uniform moral uprightness be achieved if each chooses their own?’ As a collective, we cannot, as history has long proven, but as individuals, we each can. Everything in our nature and its governing laws urge that we should.

Now we have a new definition of morality.

Morality is the conscious will to live according to one’s nature, never depriving others the same opportunity.

Justness is fundamental to nature’s codes of conduct

Justness is firmly encrypted in our nature and manifests in our ethics and individual morality according to our choices. Step outside those boundaries, and there is no justness. ‘Justness’ is enacting one’s morality, while unjustness is the product of immoral actions.

Nature’s codes of conduct work personally, so they now work for society. Unless we justly and morally deliver to others, we confess a violation of life we professedly uphold. By holding our own life in contempt, as valueless, so we acknowledge the need for remediation.

Question. Could ‘moral justness’ be preemptively taught in the classrooms of seven-year-olds? Yes, of course, whereby the need for courts of natural justice would greatly diminish.

State rule will not vanish while human sciences ignore the natural laws of our being as though they are non-existent. When millions vote for benefits, comforts, and security to be legally extracted from others, as though such theft ensures a just and moral society, they have voted to be authoritatively ruled and suffer accordingly. They agree to be herded, branded, and corralled as social animals. They should not bemoan any injustice or immorality and crime that results because the immorality of authoritative rule is precisely what they voted for.

Natural Justice

Our every immoral or unjust act, barring accidental behaviour, confesses guilt and testifies to our agreement to effect necessary remedy. Such transgressors voluntarily forego their right to freedom. They choose to step outside the law and become outlaws, bringing the full weight of natural justice to bear on themselves by their (voluntary) actions. Now consider justice as never before–

Aggressors wilfully confess responsibility for remedy or restoration of the natural order.

No judge must rule against them because they have already ruled against themselves.

Natural justice steers offenders back to an ethic-based morality.

Justice is the correction or restoration of the natural order, therefore, not punishment.

Recompense may be involved, although mitigating circumstances may prevail.

The degree of sufferance caused by (different) aggressors determines the degree of remediation or recompense necessary under Natural Justice. Do you see it? Morality shifts from being a social convention to its proper place as the conveyor of justness originating from its fully accountable place within each (individual) living being. Individual morality arises from our ethical thoughts.

Truth is—No one decides justice. It just is.

In summary, ’natural justice’ is the practice of remediating ‘injustice.’ The principle is that one who victimises another voluntarily gives up their rights, by which they confess the need for correction, remediation, and or compensation.

Such acquiescence remains until that crime or aggression is restoratively closed. That is the general principle of Natural Justice according to intrinsic natural law.

Nature’s codes of conduct now serve our lives. Observe how profound all of the above achievements are.

All of today’s beliefs concerning ethics and morality are overturned.
All ‘collectivised’ jurisdictional claims over ethics and morality are invalidated.
Authoritarian government becomes redundant as we switch to self-governance under intrinsic natural law.

Present ‘natural law theories’ holding that morality determines natural law are now inverted.

Natural law now has a truthful vitality and immutable factual grounding in our nature and individual morality that no one ever suspected—vastly more powerful, fully authenticated by Nature, and unable to be disputed. ‘Law’ now nullifies statutes and legislation with real teeth that no one can deny!

As free societies take form in ways you’ve never imagined, a profound spiritual swelling will arise in your heart that words cannot describe. After all, we have an inherent and immutable right to life’s continuance as the Creator intended. All disputes about that position are self-extinguished by those who utter it.

Life is yours to live! Full consciousness and natural governing laws are the means, and the source Creator, has your back all the way!

Individual Rights

As a living man or woman, you were born with the right to life and what you produce to sustain it. As the conscious process emphatically informs, no mind can rule another; hence, no individual has the right or authority to command another nor steal their labour. Therefore, our (individual) unalienable right to life and inalienable property rights are intrinsically immutable.

No group rights can exist since everyone already has the right to life. No man or woman is a human agent. No claim of right that does not already exist can exist.

“A natural right in the strict sense is that which is naturally under a person’s control, his body with its faculties of movement, feeling, thought, and speech. By extension, a natural right is what a person brings under his control without violating any other person’s natural rights.” — Frank van Dun, Philosopher of Law.

Many people believe that ‘unalienable’ and ‘inalienable’ mean the same. Not so.

“A right is a moral principle defining and sanctioning a man’s freedom of action in a social context.” —Ayn Rand

An unalienable right is our right to action within the equal rights of all others. Unalienable rights forbid authoritarian rule. Our right to life is unalienable, which means all aggression, trespass, and violation of our ‘right to life’ are outlawed.

An inalienable right is our right to the products of our actions, to the fruits of our labours. Inalienable rights deny confiscation of our lawful property.

Remember the difference:

Unalienable means unable to be removed by any means. Unable to be sold, given away, or bequeathed. Life.

Inalienable means inherent in the (material) product or created within it. The fruits of your labor.

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