Natural Law
The natural law, in the voice of the one that created the order of the universe, remains unshakable in its simplicity and austerity, every will manifested in the world generates a consequence, and the measure of that consequence reflects exactly the intensity with which the will imposes itself. Just as gravity operates without exceptions or favoritism, the moral order that sustains human coexistence responds to choices with patterns of effect that preserve or dissolve the essential harmony of collective existence.
The primordial principle is this, every person possesses the inalienable right to self-govern their own life. thoughts, beliefs, desires, and ways of living from the moment that the exercise of that freedom does not initiate aggression, violence, fraud, or coercion that invades the domain of another. The freedom of one ceases where the autonomy of the next begins to exist and act without subjugation. This is the core of the non-aggression principle, not to treat the will of another as a tool for one’s own objectives.
When political activisms such as Bitcoin maximalism vs. advanced cryptography, feminism vs. machism, the LGBT movement vs the hetero movement, statism vs agorism, Black Lives Matter vs White Lives Matter, and so many others, such as religious formulations vs. spirituality, seek to alter, suppress, or force the acceptance of others views, even under the mantle of equality, inclusion, or historical reparation, they reproduce the fundamental error of the oppressor, to usurp the inner space of the individual to decide what is right and wrong for them. Imposing ideological normalizations, demanding privileges that fall upon the autonomy of third parties, or punishing legitimate disagreement are variations of the same violation, colonizing the intimate court of another’s conscience. The smallest minority on the face of the earth is the individual in possession of their own will, instrumentalizing them as a vehicle for collective agendas is the subtlest and most perverse of tyrannies.
Moral causality operates with inexorable proportionality. When one coerces the will of another to think for themselves through ideologies, laws that mandate inclusive language, quotas that distort opportunities based on identity rather than merit, or campaigns that label dissenters as “oppressors” under penalty of social or legal ostracism reality responds, retraction, resentment, resistance, and inevitably, radicalization emerge. The Bitcoin maximalism culture, for example, by promoting narratives that demand enthusiasts renounce alternative perspectives on cryptocurrencies in favor of a forced “purity,” generates counterforces of alienation and division, polarizing communities instead of fostering innovation, just as support for alternative cryptography does in the inverse order. Feminism, in seeking to promote equity narratives that sometimes pressure for changes in traditional perspectives, can generate tensions that divide genders instead of fostering coexistence, similarly to machism. The LGBT movement, by pressuring for compulsory education that imposes fluid gender views in schools, invades the right of parents and children to form their beliefs without interference, planting seeds of confusion and rebellion. Statism, with its belief in the State as savior, uses coercive taxes and regulations to redistribute resources, violating individual property and creating dependence that erodes autonomy, leading to cycles of corruption and revolts. Black Lives Matter, by demanding reparations that penalize entire groups for historical sins, transforms collective guilt into a weapon, fostering racial hatred and social fragmentation instead of voluntary restorative justice, just as Bitcoin’s maximalism culture does by closing off all existing alternatives from its full analysis and understanding of its participants, causing the individual who thinks and draws their own conclusions to be ostracized when they merely see different alternatives that complement the tools to empower the individual to alter the status quo.
The system, this network of institutional, media, and corporate power that benefits from instability exploits minorities as instruments to attack and destabilize the greatest minority in the world: the individual. Using Bitcoin maximalism culture, the system promotes “empowerment” that actually divides crypto and financial communities, weakening innovative bonds to facilitate centralized control over economic narratives. In feminism, “empowerment” agendas are co-opted to divide families and communities, eroding traditional ties. In the LGBT movement, “visibility” agendas are co-opted to normalize irreversible medical interventions in youth, creating a lucrative industry that profits from identity confusion while eroding parental and individual sovereignty. Statism, by inflating the government’s role as protector of minorities, justifies expansions of power that suffocate economic freedoms, using “social justice” narratives to tax and regulate the individual into submission. Black Lives Matter is manipulated to incite disturbances that justify greater state surveillance, dividing populations by race and distracting from the true oppressor, the apparatus that concentrates power while the individual loses their agency.
God or the creative force, as the ordering principle, does not endorse such favoritism. It established laws of cause and effect, reciprocity, and responsibility, leaving to individuals the prudence in exercising freedom. True reverence for this order is to protect the sanctuary where each conscience flourishes, to ensure that no one is compelled to adopt other’s thoughts, accept imposed values, or bear privileges that distort the balance of choices. Honoring natural law is to exalt autonomy as the supreme bulwark of human dignity.
Contemporary polarization arises, to a great extent, from two symmetrical and equivalent vices, the yearning to abolish differences, forcing uniformity under a single ideological paradigm, and the yearning to create favors that turn other’s freedom into a target for social engineering. Both supplant the intimate court of the individual with an external one that dictates the acceptable. The result is inescapable, the struggle for dominance of the collective imaginary, the conversion of disagreement into war, and the erosion of peaceful coexistence.
Therefore, the response that natural law demands is dual and clear. First reaffirm the non-aggression principle as an unshakable norm, no collective right authorizes violating the sensitive freedom of the individual. Second, recognize that protecting minorities cannot involve turning third parties into instruments of coercive adaptation, legitimate protection repairs damages and guarantees freedoms, without imposing new servitudes. Distinguishing between voluntary reparation and illegitimate imposition, between genuine welcoming and ideological coercion, is the duty imposed by natural law.
Living in accordance with this order is to accept that supreme justice resides in a world where each one decides about their life, coexists with differences without pretending to eradicate them, and repairs failures without resorting to practices that permanently alter the field of choice for others. Whoever acts thus respects creation, preserves the fabric of human freedom and prevents the causality of oppression from echoing in cycles of polarization and ruin.
May every action of yours, then, be evaluated by it’s capacity to preserve intact the space of decision for the other. Thus, the human community does not degenerate into arenas of ideological combat, but elevates itself to a space where plurality exists without anyone being forced to renounce the most sacred right, to be sovereign over one’s own will, one’s own desires, and one’s own values.
In the end, any collectivism goes against the individuality of each one to think, reflect, and arrive at the conclusion of what is the best way to live for themselves.
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