Excerpts from Philosophies of the Beings
There are four core virtues, Dea, Love, Peace and Diu. Each is associated with a being's history, and each builds on the virtues before it. Dea is associated with the individual and the shortest of the histories, one life. Love is associated with family and family history. Peace is associated with culture and one's cultural history, and Diu, or sustainable living, is associated with genetic history.
Dea, personal responsibility, involves the life of one being, and is evidenced by one's personal history. Dea is enabled by consciousness. A conscious being can be responsible because they can be aware of the consequences of their actions. Conscious beings who practice Dea will take responsibility for their actions that may have consequences for others. Dea includes the acceptance of the truth of facts and histories, and conscious beings understand the difference between these truths and value judgments (good or bad). The virtuous being willingly accepts responsibility for their own actions, does not deny or hide truth, and brings truths to the attention of others. One’s individual history, primarily, their actions, is a metric of their Dea. Dea is not consistent with acts that cause or allow pain, hate, untruths, wanton aggression, war, or interference with the natural evolution of unconscious beings. One's Dea requires that they avoid harming others, and if they do, that they then accept responsibility and reverse, compensate or offset for the harm they have caused. The reward for Dea is confidence and pride.
Love is perhaps the most misunderstood of the four virtues, especially on Earth, where the word "Love" has multiple meanings in many languages. Lust is not love. Beings can both love and lust for each other, but they can also lust without love, and lust can co-exist with hate and anger. Also, beings do not "love" material objects, places, ideas or other non-living things. Beings practice love by helping others.
The reward for Love is the enjoyment of interaction with other beings. This enjoyment is enabled by trust, respect, empathy and generosity. The virtue of Love involves two or more beings, often but not necessarily family or those who are genetically related; not even necessarily the same species. Love is evidenced by one's contribution to the beings around them. Love can extend far beyond one's immediate family and friends. Empathy and the giving of one's self for others who are perhaps distant and different is a metric of Love.
Love is enabled by Dea. Beings who practice Dea can love because they can trust and respect each other. Beings who practice Love can recognize those who do not. Their interactions will be grounded in truth and Dea, not anger or hate. Beings who love can experience anger, but they will not hate because of it. Family histories reveal love. The core metric of love is not how much one loves, but how much one is loved by others.
The virtue of Peace involves groups of families; normally, two or more cultural groups. A culture is a group who share common resources and technologies. Peace between groups is enabled by Dea and Love. Beings who love can also live in peace because they can trust, respect and empathize with others even if they are in a different culture. War, the antithesis of peace, only happens when beings do not practice Dea and Love. Such beings can not take responsibility for their own actions. They may claim to love among themselves, but such love may be merely a rationalization for their self and their selfish actions. The core metric for peace is a lack of aggression towards other cultures over the historical life of the culture. The rewards for Peace are longer and happier lives.
The virtue of Diu, sustainability, involves all groups of beings, every individual, family and culture, within one biosphere. Diu is enabled by the other three virtues. Diu is enabled by the Dea of all. If all beings take full individual responsibility for their actions, then they will not cause damages or losses that cannot be reversed. If beings love, then they want to avoid actions that may be harmful to others. They understand that Peace is required to achieve Diu because the wanton destruction of war cannot lead to a sustainable future. The core metric for Diu is the potential for an indefinite existence for all groups of conscious beings in a biosphere.
A virtuous state is attained only by adherence to all of the virtues. If a being cannot practice any one of the virtues, their ability to follow any of the other virtues is doubtful.
~The Philosophies of the Beings
From Loxy Quum and the Earth Experiment
There was no planet in sight, only stars. The great expanse of nothing, practically infinite. For the human commander, there could be no further pride in the realization of a destiny that was not to be.
“Do you have any immediate orders I should convey to my crew?”
For a moment, Lana joined with her, gazing into the void. “Tell them they will soon be free beings, living on the most placid habitable world known, working with other beings who practice and expect personal responsibility. Tell them to study the four virtues so they can be ready.”
From Loxy Quum and the Krail Experiment
You should know that, among the allies, there are two competing opinions regarding the nature of human beings and their ultimate destiny. One view is that they can never have a permanent place among us. According to this view, they do not qualify as conscious beings who deserve the rights and responsibilities of the four virtues. My participation with the allies has always been premised on the other theory, the positive theory of humanity. This theory states that the great majority of humans are capable of all virtues, and your species should not be judged by the actions of a minority. . . I know that humans are capable of all good things, and in time, they must achieve the four virtues. Our actions must help join the humans with the allies, not push them away. Our actions must lead to a better future for all beings, and a place for the humans among us.
~Raj