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Written by Bob Guyer
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As force amplifies the effect of choice and action, moral responsibility must expand proportionally.
The more force applied to any action the greater its effect. Human beings have become tremendously more forceful since the beginning of industrial revolution. The increased forcefulness that we have used to extract benefits from nature has had helped to expand the scope of human consciousness.
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Written by Bob Guyer
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Freedom = Conscious possibilities
From a human point of view there is a wide range of possible states of awareness of living and non-living things apparently existing outside the individual self, thoughts, feelings, and sensations apparently within the individual self, and a wide variety of available actions in the domains where action is possible.
The known range of possibilities changes for the individual and for the collective species consciousness based on what is included within the individual or collective boundary of our awareness. Change in the size of our collective conscious possibilities is an ongoing dynamic process that occurs over time through the contributions of individuals and collections of individuals.
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Written by Bob Guyer
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As force amplifies the effect of choice and action, moral responsibility must expand proportionally.
The more force applied to any action the greater its effect. Human beings have become tremendously more forceful since the beginning of industrial revolution. The increased forcefulness that we have used to extract benefits from nature has had helped to expand the scope of human consciousness.
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Written by Bob Guyer
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Act to promote growth of the scope of consciousness in the service of life
This statement is the foundational principal of this moral system. Since the purpose of life is growth in the scope of human consciousness, acting in a way that supports that objective is valued positively. Conversely acting in a way that limits growth in the scope of human consciousness is valued negatively.
Since the precondition to valuing any action is predicated on being conscious of, more than one possibility, choosing a course of action, and then taking action, all actions can be described in terms of their effect on consciousness. As an example, murder can be viewed as an extreme example of diminishing the scope of consciousness of the person being murdered; their scope of consciousness is reduced to zero. Hunger can be viewed as a diminishment of the scope of consciousness because it restricts the individual’s scope of awareness in a way that is not volitional and directed toward the achievement of a consciously chosen objective.
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Moral Context 