Elaboration 24.1

Although this is not a course in fundamental ethics, a few basic laws should be mentioned. Laws they are, in that there are no dispensations, only prevailances by other laws. The rest, then, would be rules. These laws should be so basic that they are naturally written on everybody's mental skin. The first of these is:

All R&D's shall be in harmony with reality, (nature). Then follows:

Earth is the possession of every living being, and the possession plus responsibility of every healthy and mature human. The law that was mentioned in 51 and 31, etc., was:

Actions of others cannot alter the R&D's of a person. There are derivates or alternative ways of saying it like: Actions are Right or Wrong by themselves, not by the number of doers. Or again: R&D's cannot be altered by numbers or majorities. Which is another way of saying: All R&D's are independent of time, place or other circumstances. In order to define R&D's:

All Rights are those that rational-wise, one grants to others; all Duties are those that rational-wise, one demands of others.

It is obvious that with solely these laws, life 'in socio', is only possible on very primitive-, tribal level. For an organized socio, they must be followed by additional rules. Thus it is that the resultant R&D's in praxis differ slightly, for a surgeon, a traffic-warden, a captain of a ship, a farmer and farmer's hand. They change when the person enters a different (class of) occupation, level of responsibility (parenthood e.g.) and so on. These basics always remain fundamental, no hargle bargle. When, as we see all about us, there is active co-operation with terrorists, blackmailers, hostage takers, we might be tempted to suppose that the victim's wish, to negotiate is prevailant. Nothing is less true. The future victims of like cases, CAUSED by these negotiations will all demand a non-co-operative strategy, putting the criminals outside the law (of civilised people). Co-operation with criminals IS always a crime. The next R&D's must all be derived from the above. Many more ethical laws will be necessary in order to have a functioning society. >From a) follows of course that the rights of A are the duties of C,D,E, etc. to see to them. From c) comes the law that when A has a grief against B, he shall not punish C, or D-Z, which is the custom in the practises of the trade unions.