From: objective_ethics@ethical-liberty.com   
      
   Objective Ethics: Ideals and Principles   
   (Manifesto)   
      
      
   This Manifesto proclaims the universal principles of objective ethics.   
      
   Purpose and meaning of the activities of a free man is to maximize   
   common good.   
      
   Common good is freedom from any determinism, both natural and social.   
   Common good is achieved by cooperation of all free people. Everyone   
   brings their own personal creative contribution to this common cause.   
   Recognition of the contribution by others is the only objective source   
   of its value.   
      
   Natural determinism is needs, threats and any limitations imposed by   
   nature on man. This includes physical needs (favorable habitat   
   conditions, including movement in space), biological (destruction of   
   sources of fear, hunger, disease), psychological and cultural   
   (satisfaction of curiosity, boredom, the need for variety, knowledge and   
   beauty). Overcoming natural determinism requires changing the world.   
      
   Social determinism is any kind of violence, coercion, pressure and   
   injustice, which may affect the creative result of a person. In the   
   process of cooperation, free people, by consensus, develop formal rules   
   that allow them to overcome social determinism. Consensus is reached on   
   the basis of openness, trust and honest account of the interests and   
   opinions of all people, each of which is the same party in common   
   contract. Those reasonable people who deliberately withdraws from   
   contract are considered by others as part of the natural environment   
   (natural determinism).   
      
   Formal rules govern the activities of people in the public sphere of   
   society, which includes the interaction between strangers. Morality of   
   personal relationships is informal and out of place in the public   
   sphere. Free man draws a clear line between the spheres. He prohibits   
   any conflicts of interest between personal and public. Personal sphere   
   of everyone is completely closed to strangers.   
      
   Possible types of violence, prohibited by objective ethics:   
      
   1. Physical, both individual and collective (including violence of power   
   and majority), including indirect (threats, orders, creating dangers to   
   life and health).   
      
   2. Economic and financial:   
        - Fraud, cheating, theft, misappropriation;   
        - Exploitation, vandalism;   
        - Use of market power, unfair competition;   
        - Inequitable distribution of shared resources;   
        - Manipulation of value of money, speculations, shifting risks to   
   others.   
      
   3. Informational:   
        - Deception;   
        - Distortion, imposition, withholding information;   
        - Overflow by information, ignoring, silencing;   
        - Generation of confusing terms and meanings;   
        - Imprinting brands, slogans and symbols.   
      
   4. Moral and ideological:   
        - Imposition of moral norms, traditions and customs;   
        - Evoking feelings of guilt and responsibility;   
        - Calls for a universal brotherly love, for sacrifice in the name   
   of "thy neighbor";   
        - Indoctrination, brainwashing, subjection.   
      
   5. Psychological:   
        - Blackmail, harassment, molestation, intimidation;   
        - Reference to authority.   
      
   6. Emotional: the deliberate evocation of feelings of pity, shame,   
   complicity, desire, sympathy, hatred, resentment.   
      
   7. Propagation of the morality of personal relationships to the public   
   sphere:   
        - Corruption, collusion, bribery, kickbacks;   
        - Clanship, friendship, kinship and other personal relationships in   
   public companies or institutions;   
        - Concealment, mutual service;   
        - Tips, handouts, rewards for "personal" service.   
      
   8. Group morality, the opposition of "friend or foe" and discrimination   
   on this basis:   
        - Nationalism, racism, regionalism, patriotism;   
        - Ethnic and cultural bonds;   
        - Moral and religious superiority;   
        - Professional and class solidarity.   
      
      
   Free man is not only guided by the described principles, but he also   
   looks for ways of their widespread practical implementation through   
   education and promotion of non-violence and universal equitable social   
   contract. The present manifesto serves this purpose.   
      
   Only ethics makes people free!   
      
      
   (Source: http://ethical-liberty.com/ideals-of-objective-ethics.htm)   
      
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