Summary
- Live the message. Demonstrate:
- Civility – listen; take an interest, validate (don’t judge) and build trust. Exercise patient in face of rudeness.
- “I totally understand your concern about equality, particularly given how shocking the disparities are today”
- Tolerance – assume the best intentions. Many have never heard of these ideas.
- Open mindedness – find common ground.
- Voluntary kindness – emphasise the vision of one human family.
- Civility – listen; take an interest, validate (don’t judge) and build trust. Exercise patient in face of rudeness.
- Aim for agreement on the Principles, not the facts. “Do you mind being aggressed against?”
- Share the positive vision: The 3L Movement is about a love of freedom and friendship. “Are you the kind of person that stands up for what’s right?”
- Emphasise the value of the community: “Would you want to be part of a global community that helps each other and represents the best of humanity from all walks of life? Do you want to belong among those that stand together in moral courage for a vision of enjoying shared freedom and peace?”
- Emphasise hope and agency: “world peace is a long journey that starts with a single – we’ve made the practical steps to get involved easy”. This is something to live for!
- Repetition is key – almost no-one ‘gets it’ on first listen.
- Exclude personal opinions/preferences – 3L is a wide tent. No need to put others off unnecessarily.
- Remember: roughly 1/3 of people will simply disagree, 1/3 won’t care, and 1/3 will be receptive. 3L is about enjoying our gift of freedom while respecting the free will of others – maintain tranquility!
Assuming the best intentions
- Most people have never considered that we live in a world that legally permits aggression. Most people want a better world for all and genuinely believe that some degree of coercion is a necessary evil to get us there. They have not yet considered that this coercion is the root of the problem.
- We should assume that those we communicate with are good, kind-hearted/loving people. The following sayings summarise the error in aggressing to achieve their worthy goals:
- ‘Two wrongs don’t make a right’
- ‘Road to hell is paved with good intentions’
- If indeed the path to hell is paved with naive good intentions, the path to peace is paved with two practical principles of the 3L Philosophy.
These ideas are new to most people
- It is understandable to reject the Legal Principle without being fully informed of its meaning or having had a full opportunity to contemplate it. There are many essential points most people have likely never heard before.
- The solution to every doubt is to ask:
- “What do you think would happen next?”…
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- Eventually, a peaceful alternative solution is found existing coercive way of ‘solving’ the problem.
Emphasis on the universality, and grounding in morality
- We care about our fellow human beings and voluntarily seek to assist those in need.
- There are many ways to express the 3L Philosophy beyond the words ‘live and let live’:
- Aloha;
- The golden rule;
- Be tolerant of others;
- We are all created equal;
- You do you, and I’ll do me;
- Keep your hands to yourself;
- You’re in charge of you, and I’m in charge of me;
- Do unto others as you would have others do unto you, and
- Teach them correct principles but let them govern themselves.
With confidence
- There is no reason to be timid in advocating we treat each other excellently and end the cycle of aggressing.
- The same formula works even when learning about the facts of a situation for the first time.
- Disagreement stems from support for aggressing against others.
- We can simply remind them to admit they themselves prefer not to be aggressed against.
- For complex issues, we let the local communities decide – there may be no optimal solutions to some difficult questions.
- Allowing the smallest local communities to act as experimental laboratories in these areas is preferable whenever possible.
- The 3L Movement does not promise utopia, only that its better than what we have now for anyone valuing freedom, peace and prosperity.
- All ideologies and political positions can be reduced into two groups:
- Those advocating aggressing,
- Those not advocating for aggressing.
- Ideologies requiring aggressing are dangerous. Ideologies of peace are not.
When asked: “What does 3L do?”
- Reframe: “There is no centralised plan for world peace. It starts with a philosophy of how we live.”
- Invitation: “3L is about choosing freedom with responsibility, a way of thinking anyone can adopt.”
- Shared ownership: “Once we adopt this frame of mind, the ‘how’ becomes natural.
- Future visioning: “The movement grows into real world peace when enough of us live the philosophy first. It’s like any network – there will eventually be more benefits of being part of it than fighting it. It starts to have a gravitational power to make real legal changes; a peaceful evolution to a peaceful era.”
- Bring them in:
- “do you want to live in a peaceful world? Where aggressing is outlawed and voluntary kindness is the culture?
- Do you want to live in a world where we all of us equally adhere to this law that we don’t aggress against each other, applying to all individuals, groups, corporations and governments?
- Would you be willing to abandon aggressing as a means to achieve your desired goals?”
- If so, then the question is what will you do? Will you form a peace movement? It’s a lot of work – why not just join ours? Start a local chapter to plant the seeds of change in your local community?”
When asked: “What can I do?”
- There is no one answer to that question.
- The spectrum ranges from dedicating huge amounts of money and time to simply joining the movement.
- Ideally you would become an Ambassador, which requires learning how the 3L Philosophy applies to the major topics and a commitment to being a leader that generally embodies the Aspirational Values.
- You dont need to sacrifice anything. Come and meet incredible people, share ideas and enjoy the community. Be part of something amazing and historic.
- Eventually, 3L will have a large gravitational pull and change will happen naturally.
- Our goal is peace on earth. Not just for humans but for all life.
- Peace on earth requires two things:
3L is not extreme
- Most of us already want to live in a society where we are not aggressed against; where we can be free to live our lives how we choose. Therefore the 3L Philosophy is not extreme.
- The word radical comes from the latin ‘radix’, meaning root. The 3L Philosophy does identify the root of the dysfunction in society: our tolerance for certain groups to aggress against other people. All countries, democracies and autocracies alike, allow institutionalised aggressing. The ‘Social Contract’ was not voluntary entered into… we were born into a coercive system, with no break clause. Our tolerance for this systemic aggressing is what is causing both the existential threats, as well as the day-to-day challenges of making a living and being our authentic selves.
- The 3L Philosophy is for reasonable people, by reasonable people; all of us who do not resort to violence to get our way.
To Gen Z
- While we welcome all to the 3L Movement, Gen Z is a particular focus given that social change is most often energised by young adults
- We have a positive message to counteract the apathy that is too pervasive among Gen Z: You are an empowered creator of the world around you. None of the bad news about your generation being poorer, ecological collapse, etc. has to be true. We have the ability to co-create a very positive future. Simply get on board.
3L is ‘adjacent possible’
- ‘Adjacent possible’ in this context means that our ability to manifest lasting peace on earth has never been easier, thanks in large part to technology. The internet allows for proliferation of this simple knowledge, much like the printing press enabled the Enlightenment in the 17th Century.
