Global Ethic
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Proposed by David Loye:
The Global Sounding Moral Code
A translation of the fifteen basic indicators into
equivalent tenets for a new Global Ethic
1
Honor and respect rather than plunder and rape our living
environment.
2
Honor and respect Earth as the Mother of us all
rather than sell her into slavery.
3
100 years of science tells us Earth can still provide the
resources for health for all of us if given a fair
and practical human distribution system.
Establishing health systems for the many rather than
the chosen few is the moral requirement,
and must be our goal.
4
100 years of science tells us that a healthy brain and
healthy mind depends on adequate food
and love in childhood.
Thus nurturing and expanding, rather than
starving and blighting, is the moral requirement
for the feeding of brain and mind,
which must be our goal.
5
Mind is the precious gift of life to be nurtured, enlightened,
and celebrated, rather than orphaned at birth and
thereafter degraded and exploited.
6
Culture is the most precious gift of evolution, to be cherished and nurtured in the wonder of its diversity, rather than seized, shucked and twisted to serve low ends.
7
Over thousands of years freedom and equality have been
and will remain the most precious goals for evolution,
rather than just words to be used by power-mad
deceivers to sell control and inequality.
8
Three hundred years of capitalism and two hundred years
of communism have shown us that a fair, peaceful, and
practical distribution of Earth’s bounty requires
a balance of public and private governance,
rather than the breeding of misery, war, and
corruption with a shift in overwhelming
power to one or the other.
9
Democracy,
rather than the sham of the oligarchy of
wealth, the creep by stealth toward
fascism, or the prison of
any other form of tyranny, is a moral requirement,
and must be our goal.
10
Education for all,
rather than the fact of good schools for some
and bad schools or no schools for all
others, is a moral requirement,
which must be our goal.
11
Develop technologies to strengthen and expand the voices
of caring and reason and the abundance of life,
rather than technologies that ever more
powerfully threaten to, and indeed then
are driven to, launch and kill life
12
Differently stated but the same for all, the message
of thousands of studies of progressive science is exactly
the same as for thousands of years for progressive religion:
Do unto others as ye would have them do unto you—rather than
do it unto others before they can do it unto you.
13
Affirm our identity but also our responsibility in tandem
with a greater being, a greater reality, or a greater
mission, rather than fool yourself by claiming
some one and only holy being, idea, or cause
for your own low ends.
14
The most precious gift of evolution is consciousness.
Love, nurture, and expand it, rather than
automatically seek to narrow, blunt,
or otherwise slap it into shape
and seize the pitiful remnant
for your own low ends.
15
For over 100,000 years the choice before our species
has been unchanging. Either join those who take action
on behalf of the better world, or fall back in shame or ignorance
with those willing to sell out to the highest bidder and
join the march to extinction.
Source
- From Measuring Evolution: A Leadership Guide to the
Health and Wealth of Nations, by David Loye. Benjamin Franklin Press, 2007.