The Question
- Live and Let Live is an answer to a question, and that question is:
- Would you rather live in a peaceful or coercive world?
- Easy question, right? Don’t over-think it. By definition, no-one likes being coerced. So why is coercion not outlawed for all individuals and groups??
- If you ask that question enough, you come to a realisation; a light-bulb moment that you won’t un-seen: the choice is yours! Whether we live in a society based purely on voluntary interactions, or on coercion us our choice.
- If you truly choose world of peace over coercion, it means you choose to belong to a the community that shares that preference Live and Let Live rather than ‘fight to be fight’. Once enough people answer this question, Live and Let Live becomes the community that is a portal to peace on earth.
- Another way to phrase the question is:
- Are you willing to allow others to choose how they live their lives?
- If the answer is “yes”, the follow up question is:
- Do you want to live in a world where we live and let live; where aggressing is out-lawed? That’s not the world we find ourselves in with but, with your participation, it could be!
- Are you aligned with your answer?
- Are you orientated towards reconciliation or polarisation of society; civility or intolerance?
- Are you supporting a blue team, red team or some other political team trying to impose their preferences on others by force?
- If your answer is “no”, our questions become:
- Would you like to be aggressed against?
- If not, why would you advocate aggressing to others.
- Live and Let Live is the answer to this question.
- 3L is a cultural meme. It’s the answer to that question of whether you prefer peace or coercion.
- Think of becoming a member of 3Las adding your signature to a petition. Petitions have power: A petition of 187,000 signatures catalysed the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 that banned slavery across the entire British Empire, freeing a million slaves.
Other questions
- Can we mutually agree not to aggress against each other for any reason?
- Do you own yourself?
- What does it mean to own yourself and what consequences flow from your answer?
- Who is better placed to live your life than you?
- Are you willing to legally allow other competent adults to live peacefully even when we believe they are unwise, unhealthy or immoral choices if it led to world freedom and peace?
- In other words, are you willing to refrain from legally imposing your moral judgements on others?
- What is your grounds for believing your moral values are superior to other peoples?
- Do you want to live in a world that is safe, where the poor are helped, children are educated, healthcare is accessible to everyone and the environment is protected?
- Is such a world even possible?
- [Everyone answers yes to the first part, which answers the second part].
- Do you want to live in a world where racists, sexist and homophobic people were shunned?
- These social consequences can be powerful, and expected.
- Are any of my concerns really worth violating the most basic fundamental agreement between humans – that we must not aggress against each other?
- Do you foresee a time when you would conclude the right thing is to aggress against someone else?
- Would you ever decide to intentionally subject a peaceful person to a threat or actual initiation of nonconsensual physical force?
- Are you one of those people who will resort to aggressing when you cannot immediately envision peaceful solutions to specific problems?
- Would you abandon your principles and resort to the age old ‘solution’ of aggressing to get your way?
- If not 3L, which other solution to our unsustainable environmental, fiscal and social trajectories do you prefer?
