Sovereignty

Any discussion of economics must touch on politics. For this post, I will discuss sovereignty.

In general, politics is the relationship between sovereigns. The greatest sovereignty belongs to evolving, individual conscious beings. The right to think for oneself is absolute and inalienable. Efforts to manipulate others' thoughts and perceptions for selfish or opportunistic reasons are absolutely immoral, and in fact, the greatest crime.

One's words and deeds have effects on others and are therefore subject to a political process. Issues of conflict of sovereignty between persons ought to be resolved most strongly at the community level. Efforts aimed at controlling words and deeds should be simple, as few as possible and limited to restraints, never positive orders.

Political relations beyond the community are primarily for the purpose of maintaining harmonious relationships between communities, and between organisations.

Two Examples of Ordering Morals

Vegetarianism as a philosophy is often presented as a good when actually it is just one of many 'isms' about food in the world, each clamoring to be the one, true choke-point of Truth.

I am presenting an alternate calculus of the way to make decisions about what to eat. Here are two examples of my personal moral code. The rankings are from worst to best in each set.

Eating other people.

Eating animal flesh from factory farms.

Eating animal flesh from local farms.

Eating community-hunted and community-butchered animal flesh.

Drinking vegetable juice that was farmed, processed and marketed by global corporations.

Drinking locally-pressed apple cider from a no spray orchard.

Drinking whatever a friend offers when you stop by for a chat. (They will understand if you want to avoid caffeine and alcohol.)