Truthfulness No system distinguishing moral right from wrong can operate without acknowledging a difference between truth and falsity, between honesty and deceitfulness. Life would come to a stop in a civilization where deception has become the rule. Education, learning, science, open-mindedness, and objectivity in the long run tend to work for, lies, pretense, and fraud against, the creation of a better world. Equity , implying social justice. People must be provided with the basic necessities of life.
Abject poverty makes right moral conduct impossible for all but exceptional individuals.
Democracy with uninformed and prejudiced constituents is useless. Virtue is partly a habit formed through education. Environmental protection , ensuring ecological and economic sustainability. Reverence or respect for all life is an absurd goal or a nearly meaningless proposition in a world where human beings must sustain themselves with organic food, but people ought to be encouraged to eat as low as practicable on the food chain. Hunting and fishing are basically for those whose sustenance still unavoidably depends on them.