Universal laws of civilized society

There is no such thing as moral or immoral behavior. There is only civilized and uncivilized behavior.

A civilized society is a society whose laws do not favor any one person or any one group of people. The more a society treats everyone as equals the more civilized it is.

Equal rights. Equal protection. Equal pay for equal work. Equal punishment for equal crimes.
Civilization is an emergent property the monetary system which is a an emergent property of psychology which is an emergent property of biology which is an emergent property of chemistry which is an emergency property of particle physics.

The following are generally recognized as necessary for civilized society to function:

1. Written laws
2. Constitution
3. Laws apply to everyone including goverment officials and the government itself
4. One vote per citizen (of sufficient age and maturity)
5. Every vote counts
6. No unnecessary detainment or detention (Habeas corpus)
7. No Indefinite imprisonment
8. Speedy trial
9. Presumption of innocence
10. Cant be tried twice
11. Name, rank, and serial number only
12. No breaking of contracts
13. No damaging, destroying, or stealing others property
14. No inflicting bodily harm on others
15. No inflicting psychological harm on others (No torture)
16. No invading the privacy of others
17. No raping
18. Equal pay for equal work
19. Equal punishment for equal crimes
20. Free Marketplace of ideas

All the rules above follow from the principle that all people are equal in the eyes of the law. But treating everyone as equals is not the same thing as treating everyone exactly the same. If we treated everyone the way that extroverts want to be treated then people who are introverted would suffer. Treating everyone as if they were exactly the same is pseudo-civilization.

Good mental hygiene aids in the smooth running of civilized society but it nevertheless lies outside the scope of the authority of the government (Being dirty is not, and should not be, illegal).

## Segregation

Ideally a civilized society should be segregated by psychological type. Each type would have their own state with their own laws (subject to Federal laws requiring democratic elections and proper education of youths).

## Adulthood

Ideally people should not be considered responsible adults until they can pass a test proving that they are.

### Disciple

*Responsibility is best described as the ability to base decisions on what you know rather than what you feel (assuming that you can remember what you know when you need it)*
*Instead of declaring everyone to be a responsible adult when they reach 18 years old the government should require people to pass a test before considering them to be responsible adults*
*Peoples feeling determine their behavior. To change their behavior you must change how they feel*

How do we turn irresponsible kids into responsible adults and how should society deal with irresponsible young adults that keep breaking the law. The politically correct thing is to be "hard on crime". But there is a better more humane and more effective way.

Irresponsible young adults lack a healthy respect for laws (both physical and social). Teaching them this respect requires subjecting them to a certain amount of pain. This is unavoidable.

But there is good pain and there is bad pain. There is pain that people hate and there is pain that people enjoy. Good pain is energizing. Bad pain is terrifying. (The difference is not intensity.) If one can discipline people using only good pain then why not do it that way?

(This is why the military marches troops in training for miles and miles as "punishment" for breaking the rules. But it only works for those that enjoy jogging. Not everyone does.)

Good pain leads to life and civilization for those that know good pain. Good pain leads to death for those that do not know good pain.

## Logical laws

We like to eat food and crap it out our rear and then take that poop and spread it on a field and grow more food which we eat again.

Does this accomplish anything? No. Its just going around in circles.

Is it logical or illogical? No. It just is.

The logic (or illogic) is in how we go about achieving our goals and how we let others achieve their goals.

If your goal is to have fun and you set yourself on fire then you have acted irrationally because being on fire isnt going to be fun.

Some people seem to think that because every person and every society has different values and goals then it is impossible for there to be any universal laws of civilized society. That is simply not true.

Think of the process of achieving ones goal as driving to a distant point. Everyone has a different starting point and a different end point. But regardless of where people are going, they all need traffic lights and traffic laws or else no one will ever get anywhere. Traffic laws are in an emergent phenomenon of people trying to get places.