Meta-law of morality: Do not steal!
Divine laws are the laws that govern the universe. Moral laws belong to the divinity laws. They are found in the conscience of every human being. Conscience is the common knowledge of all human beings that teaches us about right and wrong. It teaches us what is moral and what is immoral. Because the moral laws are embedded in the conscience of every human being, every human being recognizes immediately, intuitively or consciously, that they are 100% right. In order to understand moral laws, it is good to first understand what morality is.
The term morality corresponds to the Latin moralitas, which means: manners, habit, custom, character, right conduct and proper behavior. Morality provides man with the knowledge with which to discern the difference between appropriate and inappropriate intentions, decisions, and actions. In other words, morality is the science that makes man aware so that he can distinguish between right and wrong, good and bad, moral and immoral. Morality is not relative, but absolute. Many people claim that moral laws are relative, meaning that they would depend on certain characteristics of the people in question, such as culture, religion and philosophy. This is not true. Morality does not depend on people's characteristics, because it is absolute and therefore applies to all people. It is energetically inscribed in our soul and spirit. Moreover, it is also embedded in our bodies, so it can be scientifically proven. Therefore, every human being can recognize morality expressed in words as perfectly right and true.
Morality is the science that regulates human behavior so that people can advance both materially and spiritually. Only when people are moral can they advance materially and spiritually. When immorality prevails in a society, people lose their freedom and there is a material and spiritual decline in society. Morality is closely related to freedom. The more morality increases in a society, the more freedom increases in that society. The more morality decreases in a society, the more freedom decreases in that society. It can be said that morality and freedom are directly proportional to each other. This directly proportional relationship is so exact that it can be expressed mathematically as follows: m = f x F, where m is morality, f is the proportionality factor between morality and freedom, and F is freedom. The proportionality factor between morality and freedom cannot be calculated because morality and freedom are subtle energies whose quantity cannot be measured. The direct proportionality between morality and freedom, however, can be demonstrated in a very simple and concrete way. In a society where immorality has taken over the whole society, freedom decreases dramatically, because in an immoral society more and more control systems and institutions have to be introduced, which leads to a decrease in freedom, because increasing control actually means decreasing freedom.
Let's make it concrete! Let's take an example from the field of passenger transportation. In order to travel by train, bus, streetcar, subway, or any other form of public transportation, one must purchase a ticket. Since there is a possibility that some passengers do not buy a ticket, it is necessary to establish a control system. Therefore, the public transport company employs ticket inspectors who make sure that every passenger has a ticket. In order for the ticket inspectors to have to do their job properly, an authority must be established to supervise the ticket inspectors. The employees of this authority must also be supervised. This will probably be handled by the Ministry of Transportation. The surveillance of the Ministry of Transportation will require intelligence agencies, judges, prosecutors, police, and many other such institutions. All kinds of equipment will be needed to prove their wrongdoing: Cameras, microphones, etc. In addition, there are many other costs associated with running these armies of inspectors. In this way, tickets become more expensive, since their price includes the salaries of the inspectors and supervisory personnel. Public service taxes are going up because the Ministry of Transportation, the intelligence agencies, judges, prosecutors, police officers, and all the others involved in exposing the corrupt have to be paid. We also have to pay for their equipment and many other costs that arise from these activities. This means that we will have to work harder to pay for the higher costs incurred by these operatives and their equipment. As a result, freedom will decrease because you could work less and earn the same, or you could work just as much and earn more if there were no mania for control.
The mania for control has arisen because society is immoral and therefore needs to be controlled so excessively. To better understand the directly proportional relationship between morality and freedom, it is good to also analyze what can happen in a moral society. A perfectly moral society can exist only in a society where all goods are free. Such a society can be called the society of gratuitousness. In order to explain why morality can exist only in a society of gratuitousness, I must reveal the root cause of immorality in our society. Our society is immoral not because the intrinsic nature of human beings is immoral, as some cunning or ignorant people preach. Our society is immoral because there is a concrete cause for this immorality. The deepest cause of immorality in our society is that people want a monetary reward for the riches that the earth and the sun give us.
All goods are produced for free. You can see this in a very simple way. Before the economic machine can make a profit, all investments such as wages, material and energy costs, taxes, etc. must be recovered. The fact that the economic machine has recovered all its investments means that it has paid absolutely nothing for the production of goods. All goods are produced for free because that is the only way to produce them. Therefore, people must have the right to access the goods they produce for free. The economy functions on the basis of lies and fraud. This is the main cause of the plague of immorality in our society.
When all goods are offered for free, society becomes moral. Let us see what happens in such a society in the case of public transportation. In a society of gratuitousness, the use of public transportation is free for everyone. Therefore, one no longer needs to buy a ticket to travel by public transportation. If there is no need to buy a ticket, there is no need for inspectors, control authorities and so many people in ministries, secret services, courts, prosecutors, police and all the other institutions responsible for monitoring and detecting corruption. There is no longer any need for the equipment and means of production required for these activities. The people who used to be busy monitoring and detecting corruption can now do productive and useful work. People no longer need to work to provide for an army of inspectors and to pay for their expensive equipment and other costs incurred by their work. Under these conditions, freedom increases because all people become mobile, they can work less to have the same standard of living, possibly they will work just as hard to visibly increase their standard of living.
Moreover, the work that had to be done for control is now done for the benefit of society as a whole. The work that used to be required to maintain the armies of controllers and pay for their equipment is no longer necessary. The armies of controllers will be able to work for society. Consequently, the increase of morality in society leads to both more individual freedom and more prosperity in society.
There are many immoral acts that can be committed. That is why there are many rules that are supposed to make society moral. There are so many rules that an ordinary citizen can always claim to have committed an immoral act because he did not know that such an act is immoral. In this article, I will drastically simplify all moral rules so that no one can ever say that they do not know which action is moral or immoral. All moral rules can be reduced to two words: Do not steal! Stealing means taking something from someone that does not belong to you. This moral rule can be called the meta-law of morality because it includes all other moral rules. In the following, I will illustrate and explain this meta-law of morality. Today's moral rules are as follows:
.do not injure the physical body of a human being!
If you injure the physical body of a human being, you steal his health. As you can see, injuring a human being's body is actually stealing. Whoever injures the physical body of a human being takes something that does not belong to him, because the health of the injured does not belong to him.
.do not kill!
In this case, the murderer takes a human being's life, even though that life does not belong to him. Consequently, the murderer steals the life of the killed human being.
.do not commit rape!
Rape means to perform a sexual act with a human being against that human being's will. In this case, the rapist steals that human being's right to decide whether or not to have sex with the rapist.
.do not steal!
In this case, things are clear for everyone. The thief, that is, the one who steals, appropriates something that does not belong to him.
.do not hold an innocent man captive!
To hold an innocent man captive means that the captive loses his freedom. Therefore, whoever holds an innocent man captive steals his freedom.
.do not coerce anyone!
The coercion takes place, so that the coerced one acts in such a way, as the coercer wants it. In this case, the coercer deprives the coerced one of the right to make a free decision.
.do not lie!
The liar steals from the man who is lied to the right to know the truth. Only the one who knows the truth can behave properly. The lie leads to inappropriate behavior of the one who is lied to. This behavior can mean for him the loss of material goods, suffering and even death.
.do not denigrate, do not defame!
Denigration or defamation of a person means spreading false rumors about the denigrated. In this case, the denigrator steals from the denigrated person the right to the proper image he has in society.
.do not insult!
Insults are a psychological attack on a human being. Consequently, insulting means stealing a human being's mental health, because the insulted one suffers from the insult. It can also be said that the insulter steals the right of the insulted one to be free from mental suffering.
.do not harbor ill feelings, i.e. hate, envy, etc.!
People who harbor negative feelings such as hatred, envy, etc., become energy vampires who drain the positive energy from other people. Consequently, these energy vampires steal the beneficial energy of the society.
These examples could of course be continued. As can be stated, the simplest rule of morality, which includes all other rules, is always: Do not steal! In the context of morality, one can also mention the golden rule of morality or the ethical rule of reciprocity, which can be explained in two ways: by affirmation and by negation. The golden rule of morality, expressed by affirmation, sounds as follows: Treat others as you would like others to treat you! The golden rule of morality, expressed by negation, sounds as follows: Do not treat anyone as you would not like to be treated! In the culture of many peoples there is a proverb that expresses the golden rule of morality by negation. This proverb is expressed in this way or something similar: Do not do to others what you do not want to be done to you! Immorality is the opposite of morality. Consequently, everything that is not moral is immoral. Amorality is ignorance, indifference or lack of belief in morality. As mentioned above, morality is energetically imprinted in our soul and spirit. Furthermore, it is also built into our bodies, so it can be scientifically proven. There is scientific evidence that moral decisions are accompanied by activation of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and that intuitive responses in moral situations activate the area around the temporoparietal junction in the brain. In summary, morality is built into our brains, which is why morality expressed in words can be recognized as perfectly right and true.
Author: Mihail Ispan