•Truth is the prerequisite for all non-arbitrary goals. Gathering knowledge is an implicit responsibility. Even if your only responsibility is to your own best interests, your best choice of action requires a fundamentally correct understanding of the world.
•Hypocrisy ( prioritizing personal comfort over truth ) is a form of culpable negligence.
•Fairness ( before harm ) is more important than justice ( after harm ) because harm is not repairable by justice.
•Systems can only be fair, not just. Justice can only be individual and specific. Systems can only seek to emulate justice, which is a full restoration, they cannot create it.
•Fairness is an element of legitimacy and reciprocity; pillars of civilization.
•The veil of ignorance is the correct tool for designing fair systems.
•Negligent evil arises from incorrect prioritization.
•Restoration ( full justice ) includes restitution, redress, and rehabilitation.
•Responsibility is relative to consent, which is tied to shared priorities.
•Duty is an abdication of morality.
•Shared priorities create implicit responsibilities to protect and enable those priorities.
•The minimum responsibility is to understand the probable effects of one’s actions.
•Perverse incentives are the root cause of systemic problems.
•Unfair systems cannot be culpable; culpability lies with individuals who create or maintain unfair systems.
•Systemic reform requires restructuring incentives to align with fairness.
•Redress is the wrongdoer’s responsibility to make up for harm caused.
•Truth is primary; organized priorities are the most important use of truth.
•The veil of ignorance, with all it implies, is central to fairness.
•Justice is incompatible with forgiveness; it requires restoration (restitution, redress, and rehabilitation), never retribution or revenge.
•Responsibility is relative to understanding, mitigated by capacity.
•Consent is relative to priorities.
•Evil refers to intent, not effects; it cannot be neutral.
•Bad refers to effects, independently of intent.
•There are two levels of evil: intentional and negligent.
•Evil is relative to a responsibility to do other than is intended.
•Hypocrisy adds insidiousness and perniciousness to evil; it is the most evil way of being evil.