Welcome, Taoism
“Regard your neighbour’s gain as your own gain, and your neighbour’s loss as your own loss.”
— Lao Tzu, T’ai Shang Kan Ying P’ien
Taoism teaches that the Way (Dao) flows through all things without forcing. Wu wei — non-coercion — is its central practice. The Ultimate Law agrees: the natural order emerges from voluntary interaction, not imposed control. The Tao Te Ching’s warning that “the more laws are posted, the more thieves appear” mirrors the framework’s insight that coercive regulation creates more harm than it prevents.
The Ultimate Law
Logic is the supreme rule. No authority, tradition, feeling, or majority overrides a valid logical argument.
The passive Golden Rule: do not do to others what they would not want done to them.
When this rule is broken, the victim’s right to justice — restitution or forgiveness — is sovereign.
No victim, no crime. No contradiction, no law.