# đ The Moral Code
## âď¸ General Provisions
**Purpose:** To establish the moral foundation for all actions and decisions taken by the parties to this agreement.
**Scope:** This code applies to all situations in which moral considerations, ethical conflicts, or responsibility-based decisions are relevant.
## đ Definitions
**Action:** Behavior carried out in awareness of consequences.
**Aggression:** Any attempt to enforce oneâs will upon another outside the context of defense.
**Agreement:** A voluntary commitment between individuals that regulates duties and privileges by mutual consent.
**Deception:** Behavior intended to create or maintain a false perception of reality in another.
**Defense:** Any action necessary to repel a present attack on oneâs own or anotherâs body, life, or property.
**Dignity:** The moral worth of an individual, grounded in the inalienable right to own their body, their labor, and their decisions.
**Duty:** An action required by a right or privilege.
**Force:** Any physical or psychological influence capable of suppressing, bypassing, or breaking an individualâs will.
**Freedom (in the moral sense):** The absence of aggression.
**Individual:** A being with the inherent capacity to act autonomously.
**Morality:** A system of principles used to evaluate behavior as right or wrong.
**Ownership:** The exclusive and lasting connection between an individual and parts of realityâespecially their own bodyâestablished through non-aggressive action.
**Possession:** Actual control over a thing, regardless of rightful ownership.
**Principle:** A fundamental standard for judging moral action.
**Privilege:** A use or benefit granted by agreement, which is morally legitimate only if it violates no rights.
**Responsibility:** The duty to be accountable for oneâs actions and their consequences.
**Right:** Any behavior that establishes or preserves freedom in the moral sense, and any claim that does not conflict with such freedom.
**Sapience:** The innate capacity for ethical discernment â the ability to distinguish harmful from non-harmful behavior and to understand its consequences.
**Thing:** That which is not an individual.
**Violence:** The aggressive realization of force.
## đ Rules
1. **Principle of Ownership**
Ownership arises through creation, agreement, or the intention to appropriate an unowned thing.
It is an expression of connection and responsibility â not of power.
2. **Principle of Freedom**
Every individual is the owner of their body, their labor, and their decisions.
This freedom is indivisible, as long as it is not forfeited through aggression.
3. **Principle of Defense**
Every individual has the right to defend themselves or others against attacks on life, body, or property.
Defense is not a violation of dignity, but its protection.
4. **Principle of Forfeiture**
A sapient individual that acts aggressively temporarily forfeits the right it has violated.
This forfeiture is recognized not out of revenge, but out of clarity.
5. **Principle of Restoration**
An individual that ceases its aggressive behavior regains all rights.
Return is possible â provided it is genuine.
6. **Principle of Reparation**
Those who cause harm through their action bear the moral responsibility to make amends.
Reparation arises not from shame, but from connection.
7. **Principle of Truthfulness**
I enter into agreements only if they are based on truth.
An agreement rooted in deception is not valid â regardless of its usefulness.
## đ Footnotes
**Note on the application of the Principle of Defense:**
The right to defense includes not only physical action, but also verbal or strategic forms of self-protection â such as withholding, withdrawal, or, in extreme cases, necessary untruths.
What matters is not the form, but the intention: A falsehood used to shield oneself from aggression is not a moral wrong, as long as it does not become aggression in itself.
