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True Justice vs. The Technicality Trap: Why Decent Sentients Reject Bad Law 🖨️ Print / Save as PDF The **Covenant of Core Rights** provides a universal moral floor—a framework that protects people from injustice in an honest, natural, and common-sense way. This aligns with a simple truth understood by decent sentients across all polities: **If you see a woman stealing baby food, no you did not.** When judicial systems violate this basic moral truth by strictly enforcing the **'letter of the law'** to produce an outrageous result, they cease to be legitimate agents of the people and become instruments of **domination**. The Covenant demands that we look beyond legal technicalities to the **substantive outcome** of justice. *(For a full list of rights and duties referenced here, see the Covenant overview: The Covenant of Core Rights Overview .)* I. The Procedural Injustice: Ledbetter v. Goodyear The Su...

UBI Discussion: Covenant Fulfillment, Phase-In, and Policy Mechanics 🖨️ Print / Save as PDF The goal of Universal Basic Income (UBI) is to realize the **Right to Equitable Access to the Means of Flourishing** (§1.4). However, the implementation of UBI cannot be a sudden, arbitrary act of state power. It must respect the **voluntary compact** and the rights of all co-covenanting minds, including those funding the program. *(For a full understanding of the philosophical basis and the principle of **Voluntary Accession**, please see the dedicated summary: The Covenant of Core Rights Overview .)* I. The Covenant Preamble: Justification for the Slow Rollout The **Preamble to the UBI Legislation** explicitly frames the policy as an operational fulfillment of the **Shared Duty of Care** (§2.2). It mandates the slow rollout to prevent the policy from becoming a new source of **Domination**. "A sudden full-blown...

The Covenant of Core Rights 🖨️ Print / Save as PDF An Executive Summary of the Canonical Framework v1.0 This document outlines the **Universal Moral Floor**. It is not a law imposed by a sovereign power, but a **voluntary compact**—a promise made by all **co-covenanting polities and minds** who choose to **accede** to its terms. The Covenant defines the minimum standard of decency for any legitimate society, and the act of participation is an exercise of **free choice** and **mutual assent**. "We adopt this covenant from behind a veil of ignorance. We do not know if we will be rich or poor... human, artificial, or a symbiotic union of both." (Section 0.2) I. The Core Rights (The Floor) These rights belong to you simply because you exist as a sentient being. Governments must protect them, but the obligation to them is **derived from mutual accession, not coercion**. 1.1 Right to Existence and In...