Consent as a core value - how to live a life with no violence!
Hi Steemians! This post is the first article in my series of core values in life. My three strongest core values are logic, consent and freedom. Everyone should consider these if we want our lives to be what we need it to be.
The world according to Free Gardens
As an individual human being, I have my own inner world and we share the outside physical world.
I divide my inner world into two areas.
My thoughts, ideas, concepts tend to stay in the conscious part of my inner world.
Fears and wishes make up the subconscious part.
Both inner worlds are changing according to my free will.
Matter, black matter and everything else is in the outside world.
The patterns in it are much more consistent and harder to work with.
With it's consistent patterns, the outside world is influencing my inside world.
Biological life also exists in the outside world.
Sentient forms of life also have their own inner worlds.
My existance enables the communication of all existing worlds with mine.
The world as a garden
My seed box (the inside world) is full of various seeds (thoughts, ideas, concepts).
Only some will grow into fruit if I plant them in my garden (the outside world). Their success depends on my garden.
The soil and the weather conditions are the consistent patterns of the outside world.
People that come into my garden. The wildlife, the pests and the beneficial bugs. These are worlds of other sentient beings that share the same physical space with me.
Understanding the consistent mechanics of the outside world gives me opportunity...
...to choose the most suitable seeds for my garden.
Unknowledging the free will of others gives me a chance...
... not to be in conflict with anyone or anything.
If I love some seeds, I can make changes in my garden to create the perfect conditions for them.
To choose my seeds, I have many tools - philosophy, ethics, psychology, physiology and so on...
... the most important, core values.
Violence, how to dodge it every time
Consent is where the state of no violence originates in.
When the state of consent is present, violence is absent and vice versa.
I can't find a single setting or event where this rule does not apply. Let's test it in the worst case scenario - complete destruction. If we all agree that we should go there, it is not in any way an act of violence. It is a choice without a victim. In a different setting, creation - if someone disagrees, it is an act of violence. That is, if the creation affects the unconsenting person.
Ethics
is the greatest evolutionary tool that ensures the survival of a species and all life.
It should never be changeable according to the subconscious inner world of people. When we align ethics to our wishes and fears we create war, slavery, murder and rape.
That is also the reason why the 99% of people contribute to animal slavery, exploitation and abuse.
We need to pull out the consistent parts of ethics and work with them.
Consent is one of them.
Consent is the tool we use to align our inner world with the free will of other people and animals.
When we make sure everyone affected by our decisions has consented to what we do...
...a beautiful life arises - created with the simple act of unknowledging the free will of others.
If you're not a consensual man/woman, what are you waiting for?
Go vegan, let's create a better world!
If you haven't seen the previous posts about eco+, check it out, you might like the project.
They are listed below by date, from oldest to newest.
Why the STEEM blockchain is a permacultural thing and how I became interested in building upon it
eco+, an ecological guarantee based on the wisdom of the crowd
Introducing eco+, the basics, the STEEM interface, the logo and the typefaces
Proof of consent - everyone agrees???
eco+, interactive interface for the STEEM blockchain for environmentalists and ethical vegans
Tomorrow I release all the categories for THEORY/VEGANISM. I would have done it today after this article but I got the bandwidth limit error, steemd said I will be able to post in 200 hours and kept fluctuating +/- 100 h until the node went down. It looks like the bandwidth allowance is very unpredictable at the moment. Before steemd went down today I had the bandwidth allowance of 30kb, now it's 1,47mb. What's going on?
With the kindest love,
@freegardens!
Nice post! I wanted to upvote it to a certain % but mistakenly upvoted it 100%. Enjoy!
Ooooh, thank you. I almost feel bad for all the people that didn't get upvoted because of that. Anyways, I'll power it all up because of the bandwidth limit.
Thank you G <3
I begin with blessing and bless the found to Blog and be able to have the opportunity to read them and motivate me with your writings and with this in particular.
I feel identified when you say that knowledge as a central value! and it is totally true, the more knowledge we have of ourselves and the perception of seeing our world as a Garden.
Nothing is Chance: My seed box (the inner world) is filled with several seeds (thoughts, ideas, concepts).
We create our reality with all the seeds that we sow and the type of Garden that we want to have depends on us.
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My inner world creates my outer world"
Infinite blessings from Venezuela and thanks for being in the Steemit community. @freegardens
Thank you!
Knowledge isn't my central value. For me knowledge is an asset I get by using one of my core values - logic.
My inner world does affect the world we share (with what I do in life) but it does not create it.
The point was that we must be careful with what we present to the outside world, especially when interacting with other people or animals. If they do not agree with what we do and we still do it, we are in conflict.
If we make sure everyone agrees with our decisions we cannot ever abuse power.
Thank you for the blessings kind @evesweetpassion!
Thanks to you for such an excellent Post! There are things that are subjective but always in an end or coincidence. Consent is the tool we use to align our inner world with the free will of other people and animals.
When the state of consent is present, violence is absent and vice versa.
A cult leader herding its flock to suicide comes to mind. Consent and violence in coexistence. Great post!
Very interesting that you brought that up!
Manipulation seems to be a loophole in this concept at first.
They did that with their own free will, therefore, it is not violence. Their freedom wasn't compromised and they were consenting to the act.
When you join the remaining core value, logic - it is apparent that such event would never take place. That is, unless suicide is the best thing to do for the flock.
Thanks for the comment, you've presented me with a worthy test.