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Born 1879.
Alfred Korzybski
Lived from 1879 to 1950, aged 70
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Clarity begins when we remember that our beliefs are models, not reality itself. When we hold our maps lightly — testing, refining, and revising them — we think more clearly and argue less blindly.
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Live legal, moral, and fair.
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Used by Mike in his business to guide staff from the first few years opening an office in Citrus Heights.
Respect the law to sustain order. Cultivate virtue to shape your character. Act fairly to weigh the real impact of your choices on others. When legality, morality, and fairness work together, flourishing becomes stable, not accidental.
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TST Ethics is a layered approach to moral life. It uses fairness to guide human flourishing—biological, psychological, social, and structural—while constrained by harm and reality. Good intent, informed by past results, reveals responsibility. Responsibility is a weighted calibration that excludes nothing.
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How is TST Ethics different from utilitarianism?
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TST Ethics differs by aiming at layered flourishing rather than happiness alone. Moral constraint integrate intent, virtue, preservation, and harm.
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Why does awareness increase moral responsibility?
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Awareness increases moral responsibility because once harm is understood, continued action becomes choice rather than ignorance.
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Is the Me Too movement consistent with TST Ethics?
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Yes. The Me Too movement emphasizes that impact matters, results matter. And, awareness increases responsibility.
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Flourish with integrity, constrained by harm.
Actions should come from good intent, and evaluated results.

TST Ethics affirms that moral life aims at flourishing: biologically, psychologically, socially, and structurally. These layers are interdependent and context-sensitive, weighted differently across cultures and historical conditions. Moral standing extends beyond humanity to conscious life, and preservation of living and natural systems carries ethical significance.

Flourishing is pursued within constraint. Harm functions as a limiting variable, not the sole metric. Good intent matters, but outcomes reveal responsibility. Awareness increases obligation; once harm is understood, virtue requires adjustment. Destruction demands justification; preservation is the default preference.

Live legal, moral, and fair.

TST Ethics distinguishes between Personal Morality, which cultivates character and reflective responsibility, and Group Ethics, which structures justice, law, and shared stability. Within Group Ethics, Political Theory explores how rational rights, empirical fairness, and institutional design can sustain evolving, flourishing societies. Moral maturity is not perfection, but disciplined progress — striving, within reality’s constraints, toward better alignment.

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