Ethics.

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Ethics is whatever we make it. Self-valuing means using oneself and one’s type as a standard of value, and the only inherent value to that is the self-selection of more and more refined, developed, comprehensive types. This is what “ethics” really means.

All of the so-called ethical issues like animal rights, abortion, killing, suicide, freedom, political rights, these are secondary expressions of that one essential process: that essence and fundament being the self-selective rarefaction of consciousness. Those other issues are important but, when taken as essential and out of context of the deeper human-ethical substance, only produce confusion and prevent the development of ethics.

(Then again, a large part of the human self-valuing organism is its necessary ignorances. These too much be edified.)

Concerns beyond oneself are necessitated as a consequence of ideas, truth always draws us far beyond ourselves and thus the narcissists, solipsists and egoists are quite mistaken, their types being merely lower forms of organization attempting equally low, crude and simplistic self-valuings.

We arrive then at the revaluation of all values, finally. Each type competes and this is “unconscious” conflict for dominion that plays out as the various “controversial issues” be these political, religious, economic, whatever.

Are humans still so small that these paltry little conflicts, wholly secondary to their nature, constitute what for them it means to be a self? Yes.

Ethics properly speaking, at heart, is nothing more than the deliberate stoppage and reversal of that trend. Of course the interesting stuff is what happens beyond the mere incipient ground, but hey, this is ILP after all. It would be irrational to over-value one’s audience.

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So with that said, what is your ethics? Let’s hear some common banality, shall we? Speak here of your “right and wrong”, I give my word I will try not to laugh. Seriously.

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A bit abstract. But that doesn’t surprise me.

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Ethics is whatever we make, and whatever we are made of. DNA is a form of ethics. So is all molecule architecture. Our ‘consciousness’, of which the ethics are both the ground and the result, is an ethical form. It allows us certain things, and excludes an infinitude of other things.

The art of ethics is I think the becoming conscious of ethics as being. The power of ethics as being is intimately associated with the word. If we do see self-valuing as an ethics, then we can see how the word resounds through a chaotic universe to propagate the order of self-valuing. The word as vibration, propagation, ‘sound’ - which has as many barriers as it has substances to travel through.

This vibration is the first dimensional derivative of self-valuing.
It might be said that self-valuing is the original vibration, ‘word’ - or we might assume that through a certain modus of possibility, self-valuings came into being as patterns but also in a pattern, a pattern that reflects back unto their own heart in the sense of causing a will to increase, but none of this is necessary. We must assume that ‘the word’ was not in the beginning, that it only began to resound as the small buzzing of first self-valuings combined and began to resemble each other through the chaos.

The word is the coherence – that which resounds in all. But this says nothing about the ethics that propagate it, that form its substance. Perhaps the world is always the same but its substance is different, and we can have more and less successful substances in terms of expressing the Word as Order.

Then we have those who are their own word. And the real question now is: is this ethical?
Can a man represent a word that is different from The word? Not without violence.

Ethics thus always present us with violence. We can observe this in great cultures, the matters of violence are always of the greatest aesthetic and moral importance.

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This will by no means be my definitive answer.
Just going to think freely on it for a minute or two:

Ethics is the evaluation and selection of good habits. Life is composed of many cycles and routines in cooperation. There is novelty and disruption, too, which sometimes become the crux of new routines. Habits and ways of being that offer efficiency and/or higher quality are good. But there are so many systems and routines at constant work in human life that we free up processing and attention for other things by letting go of our awareness of them. Sometimes for long enough that it takes a strong mirror for us to re-cognize them again and to re-member their design and their purpose for evaluation. As they are habits, ethics is probably essentially reactive. You can only do so much forward planning and thinking into the future.

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It’s wrong to hate yourself so much you destroy the planet I am living on.
It’s also not efficient.
Connect the dots.