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Great Ethics, Like the Non-Aggression Principle

This door talks about great ethics, and it names the liberty ones: the non-aggression principle, consent, self-ownership, and equal treatment under the law.

  • It belongs here because it is part of how this audience actually talks — not as a purity test and not as a membership requirement.
  • Ethics first is the character standard the whole movement runs on. This door names where that standard comes from in its own language.
  • It stays here. No religion appears on the non-partisan .io, or on the Republican, Democrat or Democratic Socialist doors.

A law only goes on the movement's harm list if it fails a named test, and the first of those tests is consent: does the instrument impose a duty, a liability, or surveillance on citizens who were never asked and cannot opt out. Others cover conscription, due process, speech, the franchise, and committing money at a scale that forecloses future choice.

  • Each entry names an instrument and a section, not a topic, and cites the official record.
  • The list is not "laws we disagree with." A law that cannot check one of those boxes stays off the list however bad the policy is. That sentence is printed at the top of the public list, and it is the entire defence of the number.

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This is one area of We The Citizens L, the Libertarian front door at WeCitizensL.com. It is written for libertarians, and nothing on the other three doors decides what belongs here.

Source: marketing/messaging/libertarians.md §5.0.