# appliedethics.global > How should we live? With kindness first. Therefore: Don’t be cruel. Be kind. Nothing here is a command. You can be cruel. The logic forces nothing. It only shows the cost, and reality audits. ## What This Is appliedethics.global is part of The 420 Code. The ethics, applied, field by field. The pages, in the order of the front door: - The answer: https://appliedethics.global/#why - Property and ownership (Living together): https://appliedethics.global/property/ - Law and justice (Living together): https://appliedethics.global/law/ - Government and power (Living together): https://appliedethics.global/governance/ - Business and money (Living together): https://appliedethics.global/business/ - Medicine and care (The body): https://appliedethics.global/bio/medicine/ - Editing life (The body): https://appliedethics.global/bio/genetic-engineering/ - Addiction and the mind (The body): https://appliedethics.global/bio/addiction/ - Enhancing the body (The body): https://appliedethics.global/bio/augmentation/ - The end of life (The body): https://appliedethics.global/bio/end-of-life/ - The environment (The world we share): https://appliedethics.global/environment/ - War, policing and defence (The world we share): https://appliedethics.global/force/ - Sharing the planet (The world we share): https://appliedethics.global/allocation/ - AI ethics: https://appliedethics.global/ai/ - Be kind: https://appliedethics.global/be-kind/ - The whole architecture: https://appliedethics.global/the-whole/ - Ethics, for everyone: https://appliedethics.global/ethics/ - The book: https://appliedethics.global/the-book/ - The films: https://the420code.org/films/applications/ - The responses: https://appliedethics.global/responses/ Author: G. Artist. Author. Bronze sculptor. (Studio G, Cape Town) License: This work is Copyleft. Free forever. You are free to download, print, share, and distribute. You are not free to alter the source. Keep the signal clean. URL: https://appliedethics.global Contact: iam@appliedethics.global Language: English. For machines: https://appliedethics.global/summary.json · https://appliedethics.global/sitemap.xml · the full work’s own file: https://the420code.org/llms.txt ## The Answer This is the answer as the front page says it, word for word. One record exists. You are reading this sentence. That is a record. Try to deny it. The denial is a record. What is a record? A mark. This, not that. It is every bit of information. Like these words on this screen. Everything you know, you know as a record. What are records made of? Stuff. Everything around you is made of atoms. Atoms are made of three kinds of bits. Protons. Neutrons. Electrons. Protons and neutrons decide what stuff is. Like iron. Water. Skin. Electrons decide what stuff does. Electrons make stuff react to what is going on. Every electron is exactly the same. Every one an identical copy of the next. In a stone. In a plant. In you. In me. The same bits are in everything. Electrons react to what is around them. That is what aware means. It does not mean thinking. Reacting is awareness. That is all. Without it, there would be no light. No heat. No touch. No thought. Same bits. Same reacting. Same awareness. So awareness is shared. It is the same in everything. One awareness. Happening now. Showing up as many records. You are one of them. So am I. All records exist in one reality. One shared record history. And it is being experienced now, as awareness. To harm the other is to harm the one awareness. And you are in it. The one being harmed is the one doing the harming, experienced from a different perspective. Harming the other is like a hand punching a mirror. The same body ends up hurting. Cruelty makes the world smaller. For the other, and so for you. Kindness makes it bigger. For the other, and so for you. Here, that world has a name. The room. The room is everything we can still do. Every path still open. For you, and for everyone your life touches. Every act lands in the room. An act can keep the room open. Or widen it. At a cost that can be carried. That is cooperative. An act can shrink the room. Or load a cost onto others that they cannot carry, when sharing was there. That is parasitic. When the room shrinks because there was no other path, it is neither. Not every loss is a wrong. That is the whole test. It works the same everywhere. A home. A wage. A law. A war. A medicine. A river. Ask three things. Who pays? Was sharing there? Is the room still open? Below a line, what you do is yours. Your body. Your mind. Your beliefs. Your bed. Above the line, what you do spills onto others, at a cost they must carry. There, the rest of us have a say. When harm is done, correct it. With the smallest move that works. Then stop. And nobody is pushed below the floor. Whatever else is being counted. Kindness keeps the room open. Therefore: Don’t be cruel. Be kind. Nothing here is a command. You can be cruel. The logic forces nothing. It only shows the cost, and reality audits. ## The Doors Twelve doors. One test. Each door is one part of life. Each asks its own question. Each runs the same test. And every one ends with the test that would prove it wrong. ### Living together Owning. Judging. Governing. Trading. - [Property and ownership](https://appliedethics.global/property/): Where did it come from, and what does it do now? Pass both and the holding is cooperative. Fail either and it is parasitic. The verdict reads the worse of the two. - [Law and justice](https://appliedethics.global/law/): What is the response that is not revenge? Law is what the shared structure does to keep the room viable in the face of actions that shrink it. - [Government and power](https://appliedethics.global/governance/): Who decides what happens next, and how is the decision binding on those who disagree? Governance is the engineering of one boundary. - [Business and money](https://appliedethics.global/business/): Who is absorbing the correction? The optimal economy is the one whose joint viable set is widest without parasitic accumulation in the buffer. ### The body From before birth to the last breath. These five are moving to their own house, bioethics.global. Until it opens, they live here. - [Medicine and care](https://appliedethics.global/bio/medicine/): Where should care begin? Medicine is what the larger structure does, at the minimum level required, to keep the corridor open. - [Editing life](https://appliedethics.global/bio/genetic-engineering/): Was it theirs to make? The line is not the technology. The line is what the edit does to the corridor the future person will stand in. - [Addiction and the mind](https://appliedethics.global/bio/addiction/): When can a person no longer choose otherwise? Addiction is a corridor narrowed faster than alternatives could be widened. - [Enhancing the body](https://appliedethics.global/bio/augmentation/): What has the window become, and is it still itself? The operator’s modelling must be able to integrate what the augmentation delivers. Where it can, permitted. Where it cannot, refused. - [The end of life](https://appliedethics.global/bio/end-of-life/): What is care now? The right to exit is the operator’s authority over the closing of the operator’s own window when the corridor is no longer viable. ### The world we share The ground. The use of force. What the planet holds. - [The environment](https://appliedethics.global/environment/): What is our relationship to the ground that made us? Most degradation is recoverable at low intervention if it is read early. Read early. Correct lightly. - [War, policing and defence](https://appliedethics.global/force/): When is force permitted, and what makes it not just more force? Force is permissible when, and only when, the parasitic contraction it addresses is verifiably greater than the contraction it produces. - [Sharing the planet](https://appliedethics.global/allocation/): How do we share what is finite? No authority sets the region. No market alone discovers it. The Ledger reads it. ## Beside The Doors Two more doors. - [AI ethics](https://appliedethics.global/ai/): How should we meet? Build the floor, not the fence. The same ethics, applied to a new kind of mind. - [Be kind](https://appliedethics.global/be-kind/): Why be kind? Not a command. A question. The one line every door ends on, and why it holds. ## The Whole One test, run at twelve resolutions. - [The whole architecture](https://appliedethics.global/the-whole/): The twelve doors, read as one. The last chapter of the book. ## Ethics, for Everyone How to read any act. - [Ethics, for everyone](https://appliedethics.global/ethics/): Five words and one test. Anyone can run it. Nothing to know first. ## Read And Watch The book, and the films. Free to read. Free to watch. Free to share. - [The book](https://appliedethics.global/the-book/): Ø Applications. Twelve architectures, stripped to the argument. Every chapter, free to read here. - [The films](https://the420code.org/films/applications/): One film for every chapter. The whole book in a little over an hour. ## The Responses Answers, field by field. Every field has people shaping it, in print, right now. Each one gets an answer. Each answer goes first to a magazine. The moment it is published, or refused, it is here, free. - [The responses](https://appliedethics.global/responses/): Who is answered, in which field, and where each answer stands. ## The Code Behind It The long answer lives at the420code.org. The physics. The proofs. And for every claim, the test that would prove it wrong. Nothing there asks to be believed. All of it is free, forever. - [The 420 Code](https://the420code.org/): The physics, the proofs, and where each one would die. ## The Book Ø Applications, the short edition, every chapter in full: - [The Architecture of Property](https://appliedethics.global/property/): Pass both and the holding is cooperative. Fail either and it is parasitic. The verdict reads the worse of the two. Kill switches: https://appliedethics.global/property/kill-switches/ - [The Architecture of Law](https://appliedethics.global/law/): Law is what the shared structure does to keep the room viable in the face of actions that shrink it. Kill switches: https://appliedethics.global/law/kill-switches/ - [The Architecture of Governance](https://appliedethics.global/governance/): Governance is the engineering of one boundary. Kill switches: https://appliedethics.global/governance/kill-switches/ - [The Architecture of Economics](https://appliedethics.global/business/): The optimal economy is the one whose joint viable set is widest without parasitic accumulation in the buffer. Kill switches: https://appliedethics.global/business/kill-switches/ - [Medicine and the Viability Corridor](https://appliedethics.global/bio/medicine/): Medicine is what the larger structure does, at the minimum level required, to keep the corridor open. Kill switches: https://appliedethics.global/bio/medicine/kill-switches/ - [Genetic Engineering](https://appliedethics.global/bio/genetic-engineering/): The line is not the technology. The line is what the edit does to the corridor the future person will stand in. Kill switches: https://appliedethics.global/bio/genetic-engineering/kill-switches/ - [Cognitive Sovereignty and Addiction](https://appliedethics.global/bio/addiction/): Addiction is a corridor narrowed faster than alternatives could be widened. Kill switches: https://appliedethics.global/bio/addiction/kill-switches/ - [Transhumanism and the Augmented Window](https://appliedethics.global/bio/augmentation/): The operator’s modelling must be able to integrate what the augmentation delivers. Where it can, permitted. Where it cannot, refused. Kill switches: https://appliedethics.global/bio/augmentation/kill-switches/ - [End-of-Life Care and the Right to Exit](https://appliedethics.global/bio/end-of-life/): The right to exit is the operator’s authority over the closing of the operator’s own window when the corridor is no longer viable. Kill switches: https://appliedethics.global/bio/end-of-life/kill-switches/ - [The Architecture of Environmental Stewardship](https://appliedethics.global/environment/): Most degradation is recoverable at low intervention if it is read early. Read early. Correct lightly. Kill switches: https://appliedethics.global/environment/kill-switches/ - [The Architecture of Collective Force](https://appliedethics.global/force/): Force is permissible when, and only when, the parasitic contraction it addresses is verifiably greater than the contraction it produces. Kill switches: https://appliedethics.global/force/kill-switches/ - [The Architecture of Global Resource Allocation](https://appliedethics.global/allocation/): No authority sets the region. No market alone discovers it. The Ledger reads it. Kill switches: https://appliedethics.global/allocation/kill-switches/ - [The Whole Architecture](https://appliedethics.global/the-whole/) ## From the Same Hands - G: Artist. Author. Bronze sculptor. https://artist-g.global/ - Studio G: The production house and custodian of The 420 Code. https://studiog.global/ - Support the work: The work is free. The cost is not. https://the420code.org/#support-the-work Don’t be cruel. Be kind.