HOW CAN WE ACCOMMODATE DIVERSE BELIEFS?
RELATIVE MORALITY
Meta-religion operates within the critical realist perspective that no one can know for sure what's going on. Other than that, it has the same moral relativistic questions to answer as secular humanism.
Dasism also highlights secondary moral drivers based on its Paradigm.
PRAGMATICALLY S.A.F.E.
SAFETY
AWARENESS
AWARENESS
Safety is a common goal that unifies people. But the important thing to note about safety is that it can never be absolute.
The best you can hope for is that things are harder to mess with than it is worth doing so. Society needs to negotiate the balance between appropriate effort and unavoidable misfortune.
AWARENESS
AWARENESS
AWARENESS
The best deterrent is awareness. If everyone knew how to accomplish what they wish relative to what everyone else was up to, bad behavior would be deterred by virtue of honest collaboration.
The issue in modern society is selective awareness- only certain things are made public as regulated by corrupted centralization.
FREEDOM
AWARENESS
EXCEPTION
Freedom can refer to many things, but in the context of Dasism, it means the right to self-determination.
Meaningful freedom means that people have the right to determine for themselves what they believe, what is best for them in life, and how they wish to pursue it, so long as it doesn't harm others.
EXCEPTION
AWARENESS
EXCEPTION
If the aim of the rules are to keep people safe, then they shouldn't be used in ways that endanger people.
Making exceptions isn't about avoiding accountability, it's about accepting the nuance of reality and how all of humanity's frameworks fall short- even the ones that dictate law & order.
MINIMIZING NEGATIVE MORAL DIFFERENCES
FLAT HIERARCHY KEEPS THE PEACE
As counter-intuitive as the claim may seem, anarchy helps resolve moral disputes. Anarchy is merely the opposite of hierarchy, and it's the power of one entity to arbitrarily dismiss the morality of another that leads to the most conflict. Society should aim to balance decision making and social equity, not concentrate it as much as possible.
ABANDON RETRIBUTION
Humanity must use morality as a tool for presence and preparation, not as a reason to get stuck in the past. While restitution may be valid and should be pursued, retribution is an often unnecessary rationalization of vengeance. By focusing on proactive morality, we can avoid perpetuating trauma endlessly.
FOCUS ON RESTORING PRESENCE
The fundamental problem with crime is that it ruins our ability to be present and enjoy the moment. We end up plotting vengeance or fearing retribution depending on the side of the fence we are on, and both remove us from our ability to engage with reality as it exists now. How we respond to crime should facilitate the restoration of presence, not the further abandonment of it.