Overview
- Law is a made up human concept. Laws are enforceable rules that, ideally, facilitates peaceful co-existence with one another, although this logic is not evident in most of the existing laws today. While moral rules suggest how to act, legal rules identify what conduct is prohibited and subject to formal consequences for noncompliance, whether we agree with the legal rules or not.
- As a human construct, there is no objectively correct ‘law’; they are simply the rules we choose to live by. We must use reason to determine a framework of laws that align with justice.
- The golden rule, to treat others as we wish to be treated, is such a framework that all reasonable people agree on. The most serious aspect of the golden rule is not to aggress against others – 3L calls this the Legal Principle. It is this ‘least common denominator’; the rule that all those seeking peaceful and free co-inhabitation agree upon. It is ‘essential’; necessary, universal and minimal.
- All the countless other laws enforced around the world today that outlaw victimless activities are merely moral preferences forced on other people. One key insight the 3L Philosophy offers is that freedom and peace require we take our moral preferences out of the law.
- The 3L Movement seeks the best legal rules to facilitate everyone’s freedom, peace and prosperity by harmonising all laws with the Legal Principle.
