The seed of all sin (poor judgment) and thus the seed of all “temptation”, is Presumption. And the temptation to presume is the weakness of homosapian. He presumes to condemn, presumes to kill, presumes to lust, presumes steal, presumes to conquer, presumes to do all of those things that are presumably bad for him.
The purpose of social ethics is to create, maintain, and protect the wealth of life within a group of lives, a society. Thus in order to deduce social ethics, one must be aware of what the wealth of life is made.
Life is a process. The momentum of that process is what maintains the process against interference and thus maintains the life. And the social wealth of life is protected by protecting that momentum. Thus it is upon such understanding that social ethics must be derived.
In order to create a system of social ethics, one must be aware of the process that is life. In order to maintain that process, one must maintain the awareness of that process. And in order to protect that process, one must be aware of the process’s strengths and weaknesses, hopes and threats.
So it can be immediately deduced that social ethics must include learning. And learning requires teaching and/or discovery. Thus a system of social ethics must include learning and teaching.
Thus to be ethical one must at least participate in learning and teaching the process that life is and the ways to restore it, maintain it, and protect it. Doing anything else detracts from the momentum and reduces the wealth of life. Everything else done is unethical.
The learning and teaching causes the creating, maintaining, and protecting of the wealth of life. And the creating, maintaining, and teaching causes the learning and teaching of the wealth of life. It is a self-sustaining process, known simply as “Life”.
One might ask who is to learn and who is to teach, or who is to create, maintain, and protect. And the perhaps surprising answer is, “the entire universe itself of which you are a small participant”. The physical space that you occupy is a spot within the universe that has learned to be life, no longer merely random, chaotic affectance, but a process stored in the location in which you stand. Your physical being is the universe’s memory of what life is. The presence of life, is the memory of life.
A society is a concentration of life, more certainly remembered. And that is the purpose of a society, to further ensure the learning and teaching, the creating, maintaining, and protecting, the very same wealth that life is.
So the question becomes, “how does one create, maintain, and protect the wealth of life in a concentrated way, in a social way?”
One learns by clarifying, verifying, remembering, and reinforcing the perceived hopes and threats concerning the momentum or wealth of the process of life. One teaches by clarifying, verifying, instilling, and reinforcing the perception of hopes and threats concerning the momentum of the process of life. And in so doing, life collaborates with life in order to ensure the universe’s memory of the process. In such a way, a society, a collaborating concentration of life is formed.
Anything else you do detracts from the wealth of life, allowing the universe to forget, and thus is unethical.
But there is a maximum density for the process of life. If life concentrates beyond that maximum, the universes memory becomes clouded and corrupted. Chaos returns and life is partially forgotten. Learning to form, maintain, and protect the maximum density of life, is the purpose of a good government and proper ethics. Good government is good ethics.
Feel free to clarify and verify the thought (learn). And of course, it would be good to remember and reinforce it (teach). The hope of the momentum of life, its wealth and its harmony, depends upon it. It is the only ethical thing to do.