How do I come up with ideas for morality? Thinking. Think about topics, and add it to your page and call it morality. Obviously, if everyone started their own topic on morality, certain people will cover certain topics that others didn't cover. So I do like to come up with ideas and add to my morality list..

Obviously, the hardest part is organizing and categorizing.

Here goes.

Traditional beliefs.

In giving the benefit of the doubt, rather than the disadvantage of the doubt.
The Golden Rule.
Traditionally the death penalty.
Burden of proof is on the person accusing someone of doing something, not on the person accused of doing something.
Against making things worse than what it already is.
Equal-gender opportunity. That is, it doesn't matter whether a person is male or female.
We have a moral obligation to live for (help) others in order to not be evil.
Giving sympathy.
Never expect anything from anyone.
Value people without lawyers.

Basic principles:

Not only should people be judged on what they do, they could also be judged on what they don't do.

A human being could have evil characteristics not just by all the good things they do, but by all the things they don't do.

Not only are people good/bad by what they *do* do, they are also good/bad by what they *don't* do.

(All above 3 were repeats.)

The Golden Rule:

     Equal reputation: If a person you don't like does something you don't like, then a person you do like that does the same thing the person you didn't like does, you should be against it in the same way.

     (Repeat) If *anyone* does something you don't like or are against, that doesn't justify that someone you do like doing the same thing should be okay in your own moral code.

     (Opinion version) If someone you don't like has an opinion that you don't like, then if someone you do like has the same opinion as that of someone you don't like, you should treat the opinion the same regardless of who holds it.

     If I found out about an incident where a someone had been put in a position where if I had that same circumstances I felt was unfair, then I would do something about it/be against it. Even though the incident does not apply to me, I would still defend the victims affected by it since I am against it in principle.

Analogies.

Better safe than sorry.

     Better to ask for permission than to ask for forgiveness.

Better to be sad about an incident than to be angry about an incident.

Better to be hated for what you are, than to be liked for what you are not.

Better to be hated after asking, then to be defaultly hated under your doubt.

Better to look at both sides of the story than only 1 side of the story.

Better to have no friends, and no enemies, than to have friends, but then, also have enemies.

Better to get screwed, by assuming people won't screw you over, than to assume people will screw you over, and not get screwed.

This can be rephrased as.

Better to assume people won't screw you over and get screwed, than to assume people will screw you over and not get screwed.

Better to be easy to be happy and hard to be mad, than to be hard to be happy and easy to be upset.

Ifs.

If other people's ideas are false and tend to incite to violence, it's a vice to tolerate them.

If you choose to accept false beliefs that lead to violence, then you are totally responsible for those choices.

(Regarding actions.)

Making sense is a pre-requisite for actions.

(Regarding beliefs.)

The truthfulness of a specific belief is the same, regardless of how many people believe in it or don't believe in it.

A belief deserves respect if it is supported by evidence.

The only thing that matters when deciding whether or not to believe something is whether or not it is true.

(Regarding burden of proof.)

For a person trying to remove a belief you currently hold, their burden of proof is met when and if they show that the burden of proof for the belief you currently hold has not been met.

(Regarding consensus.)

A consensus that doesn't have a rational basis is no more worthy of forming a basis for action than any other coincidence.

(Regarding criticisms.)

Any society where criticisms of any sort is unacceptable, the society itself is unacceptable.

(Regarding crying.)

It is always okay to cry / No one is "too old" to cry.

(Regarding ethics.)

A failure to benefit someone from their suffering in which you did not cause is not something you are responsible for.

(Regarding evil.)

People whom don't do evil, but approve of those that do it, are themselves evil.

People whom have evil ideas or intentions but don't practice them are also evil.

People whom allow evil are evil.

(That is, evil can be divided into 2 subcomponents: evil on the outside, and evil on the inside.)

Something that is a guide to moral agents that cannot distinguish good from evil is itself evil.

(Regarding insults.)

When getting insulted by someone, a counter-insult should not be worse than the original insult. And of course, a counter-insult is completely unnecessary if it is irrelevant.

(Regarding intelligence.)

From the emotional appeal, something that has the intelligence to differentiate the difference between right and wrong has a responsibility to do right from wrong.

(Regarding laws.)

Laws should be based upon whether or not there are rights violations in the individual acts, not the ultimate statistical consequences of miscellaneous acts.

(Regarding logic.)

The no-assumption rule.

The fact that something has bad consequences is not evidence that something is wrong in any way other than it causes those exact consequences.

(Regarding morality.)

You shouldn't do good things only because you expect you will be rewarded for it in the future. You should do good things because it's the right thing to do.

(Regarding opinions.)

It doesn't matter who holds an opinion - all opinions should be evaluated equally regardless of who holds it.

(Regarding being proud.)

It is okay to be proud of something if and only you chose to be that something, and not if you were born to be that something or don't have the choice to no longer be that something.

(Regarding rights.)

The reason things have rights do have rights is because they're capable of respecting rights.

(Regarding talking.)

Any long 1-way conversation between 2 people that don't know each other needs consent.

(Regarding freedom of speech, censorship, and taking offense.)

It's hard to find someone whom objects to freedom of speech when the speech is limited to only things that don't offend them.

If a minority group is offended by something, and that thing is censored, then the minority are being rewarded for what they take offense to by having that thing censored.

I hold every person who condemns (and takes offense to) the cartoons without condemning the violence responsible for encouraging the violence. "Look what you made me do" is a justification, and you can't justify without encouraging.

The nice thing about freedom of speech is that when it's used and displays ignorance and stupidity, there are usually many people that are willing to step forward and show the ignorance and stupidity for what it is by using their freedom of speech.

(Regarding truths.)

Truth is not determined by opinion, but by evidence.

(Regarding truths and lies.)

An unpleasant truth is always better than a pleasant lie.

(Regarding friends and enemies.)

Better to have no friends, and have no enemies, than to have friends, but then, also have enemies.

(Regarding not liking someone.)

1 must have a specific reason, in reference to a specific incident and time, in order to not like someone. 1 cannot simply not like someone "just because" or due to "general annoyance." If 1 cannot remember why they do not like someone, then they simply don't have a good reason to not like someone.

(Things that are not okay.)

It is not okay to believe in something simply because you want it to be true or wish it were true.

It is not okay, if, a situation where if you had a lawyer, you would be found innocent, whereas, if you hadn't had a lawyer, you would be found guilty of a crime.

(Autistic philosophy.)

Better to get screwed, by assuming people won't screw you over, than to assume people will screw you over, and not get screwed.

This can be rephrased as.

Better to assume people won't screw you over and get screwed, than to assume people will screw you over and not get screwed.

(Miscellaneous I beliefs.)

I believe in leading by example, not compromising with evil.

I sympathize about those that are less fortunate, than happify over those that are more fortunate.

Philosophies.

The good news is only good news when you don't hear the bad news that comes with it.

Things are what they are, not what they will be.

You need a specific reason to not like someone.

People need a reason to be depressed. They can't be depressed, "just because."

While we do not have an obligation to right every wrong, we have the right to right any wrong we choose to.

Statistical quotes.

What people think they would want in a situation totally distant from their actual situation often bears no resemblance to what they really do want in that situation.

The good people aren't good enough; the bad people are bad enough.

People who tend to be very defensive about criticisms to them probably / tend to have a lot of reasons to be critical about.

Other.

I like to think of myself as the sum happiness (and sadness) of all the people on the planet. There are plenty of people that are really happy right now. As well as those that are sad. And mad/angry. I like to think of myself as the net sum of everyone's happinness + sadness feelings, so that I might be more of a neutral feeling person. And having an unchanged emotion.

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