🌤️ Key Insights

1. Live and Let Live - it’s in its name.

   • People should be free to live however they choose so long as they allow others to do the same; let live. The essential imperative in the phrase ‘live and let live’ is that we must not aggress against each other. This forms the foundation of morality, rights, and law on which rests the Live and Let Live (3L) Philosophy; a first-principles approach to achieving peaceful coexistence. We believe ‘live and let live’ is the least disagreeable saying in existence that all can rally around.

2. The root of all the biggest avoidable problems humanity faces is legalized aggressing.

   • Peaceful co-existence requires freedom. Freedom is achieved when all people, groups, corporations, and governments are legally allowed to interact only voluntarily and consensually. This is ensured by adherence to the Legal Principle; no one may initiate physical force, fraud, or coercion against another person or their property. This concept is both ancient and widely agreed upon; it’s the essence of the Golden Rule. The application of this insight removes the vast majority of laws and regulations that impede intelligent responsibility, while not ‘throwing the baby out with the bathwater’. It’s how we replace aggressing with virtue; dominance with dignity.

3. We must separate morality from the law if we are to avoid the endless fights over whose morality is superior.

   • We must stop imposing our morality on others.
   • For reasonable people, the commonly shared foundation of our moral values is that we don’t aggress against each other. No one wants to be aggressed against, so we must enshrine this in law: the mandatory Legal Principle.
   • In contrast, the much broader topic of which moral behaviors are optimal in different circumstances is subject to widespread debate and disagreement. As such, while we aspire to adopt the Aspirational Values to achieve peace on Earth, these are deliberately not prescriptive or mandatory. We must end the cycle of fighting over whose morality is ‘right’ and instead unite around what we do agree on - the essential foundation for a peaceful society: ‘don’t aggress!’

4. We must replace the coercive systems of tax, subsidy, and unprincipled regulation with voluntary systems that align with the Aspirational Values of kindness, tolerance, and high character.

   • A free society must benefit everyone, even those who currently feel dependent on coercive systems. We must replace our involuntary systems with voluntary kindness.

5. Disagreement is natural, expected, and manageable.

   • Even reasonable people inevitably won’t agree on everything. Some issues don’t have easy answers. Instead of letting perfection prevent progress, the way to peaceful co-existence is to allow local communities to determine their own reasonable interpretations of these gray areas.

6. The transition to a free and peaceful society cannot take place overnight.

   • Our dependencies on the existing systems of coercion are pervasive. Like a coming sober from a substance addiction, withdrawals can be as deadly as the drug. The transition must be neither too slow (given the existential risks) nor too fast. The 3L Movement does not prescribe a one-size-fits-all plan or pace of the transition, but outlines a clear vision of the destination. This vision is not utopian - we expect and must prepare for the threat of aggressors, even though these risks would be significantly reduced relative to the status quo.

7. The 3L Global Peace Movement provides a blueprint for humanity to achieve peace.

   • It does not offer a utopia but an improvement. While we aim for universal brotherly love, we do not expect to achieve this vision of peace soon - our motto is ‘aim high, fall short, do well’. We’re committed to excellence and remain open-minded to any challenges and suggestions for improvement.

8. A coordinated global plan for effectively addressing the most significant risks is required.

   • A global effort to address the existential risks facing humanity, like nuclear weapons, synthetic biology, and AI, is seemingly unavoidable given the universal nature of the risks. A global peace movement based on correct fundamental principles is the best foundation for addressing these urgent issues.

9. This simple formula resolves every dispute: First, determine whether someone aggressed. If someone aggressed, the conduct should be illegal. If not, the conduct should be legal. Next, assess whether the person acted excellently. If so, we may choose to encourage the conduct. If not, we should inspire the person to act differently, even to further their self-interest.

   • We must not aggress - doing so involves legal consequences. We should treat each other excellently due to the informal (social) consequences.

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