Definition

The Legal Principles is don’t aggress.

Discussion

Overview

The Legal Principle refers to a universal and mandatory rule for everyone to not initiate a violation another’s self-sovereignty.

This means no one is entitled to aggress upon another person.

The Legal Principle is the baseline condition for freedom. Only with freedom can peace be achieved.

Aggressing negates self-sovereignty by subjecting people to the control of others without just cause.

No valid law can aggress. This means the Legal Principle is also a constraint on law, restricting the law from enabling some people to aggress against others.

The Legal Principle can, and must, apply consistently and equally to everyone. This includes individuals and collectives of individuals (such as corporations and governments).

When we subject others to our moral standards, we are initiating a violation upon another’s self-sovereignty.

The Leval Priciple also provides the basleine for fair procedures to resolve disputes.

Where the Legal Principle Comes From

Not aggressing against each other is the common fundamental moral root that anchors a civilized society; it is the ‘least common denominator’ of what all reasonable people can agree on.

Those who wish to aggress against each other are, by definition, unreasonable.

This stems from people respecting other people’s ownership of their bodies and their lives.

Why the Legal Principle is Mandatory

This Legal Principle is is mandatory.

A legal system that does not adopt the Legal Principle is one that institutionalizes aggressing. Compliance with the Legal Principle cannot be optional if we are to live in a free and peaceful society.

There are many aggressors around the world - we should expect this. We should feel no remorse in protecting the innocent by subjecting aggressors against their will to the consequences of enforcing the Legal Principle.

Pursuing a free and peaceful world requires that people are free to live as they choose and that they are not free to aggress against others. We should be tolerant of others to live their life in any way they choose, other than by aggressing.

Intercultural Intention

The Legal Principle’s prohibition on aggressing is intended to be compatible with culturally diverse contexts.

The Legal Principle itself is compatible with:

ancestral traditions
religious lessons on the sanctity of life
communal values in a preferred social structure
practices of people indeigenous to their homeland.

Additional Laws

There are many aspects of the Legal Principle on which reasonable minds disagree about its implementation.

Such ‘gray areas’ are typically continuums that require rules to be established by local communities via a reasonable interpretation of the Legal Principle.

The Legal Principle is Comprehensive, Concise, and Coherent

Comprehensive: it provides a roadmap to reasonably resolve all disputes with relative simplicity by including space for local communities to interpret grey areas and determine the necessary additional harmonizing laws.
Concise: it says no more than is necessary.
Coherent: it applies to all situations fairly and justly.

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