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I – Language is the means by which one entity can communicate with another. 

II – Language can exist in spoken, written, physical, or image form. 

III – The lack of Language precludes the complex interaction between individuals that is essential for evolution. 

IV – The lack of language precludes all family, society, and civilization.  

V – A civilization, group, family, or an individual’s language directly shape the given civilization, group, family or individual. 

VI – The words available in any given language necessarily limits understanding in the population it supports. 

VII – The words available in any given language necessarily creates biases in the population it supports. VIII – Differences in word selection and meaning that exist between languages necessarily create a different understanding of the world between populations using separate languages. 

IX – Differences between word selection and meaning that exists between languages can and will cause misunderstanding and conflict. 

X – Individual words or representations thereof can hold different meanings to each individual even within the same language group. 

I – Civilization is a method by which individuals attempt to reduce the likely hood of personal suffering and violent death by assigning their individual powers to some form of centralized leadership.  

II – Each individuals power is cumulative with every other individuals’ power when given over to a centralized leadership.  

III – These cumulative individual powers when vested in some form of central leadership manifests themselves as laws and government.  

IV – The creation of laws and government is the creation of civilization. 

V – Government and the associated laws are required for the persistence and advancement of humanity. 

VI – Government and its associated laws regardless of form will only as exist so long as it fulfills the needs of the individuals who vested their individual power.  

VII – When a government fails to fulfill the needs of the individuals who vested power in said government, said individuals will withdraw their power. 

VIII – This withdrawal of individual power is destructive to said government and its associated civilization.  

I - Sufficient supplies of water are necessary to sustain a peaceful and successful civilization. 

II - Sufficient supplies of food stuffs are necessary to sustain a peaceful and successful civilization. 

III - Sufficient security of persons and property are necessary to sustain a peaceful and successful civilization. 

IV - Sufficient supplies of energy are necessary to sustain a peaceful and successful civilization. 

V - Sufficient liberty for free thought and self-expression are necessary to sustain a peaceful and successful civilization.  

VI - Sufficient cultural resources are necessary to sustain a peaceful and successful civilization. 

VII – Lack of these attributes in sufficient quantities will place undue pressure on a civilization which will result in adverse reactions among its members.  

VIII - Lack of these attributes in sufficient quantities will inhibit the advancement of the civilization and its members. 

I – Each given individual has unique and specific capabilities. 

II – Each given individual is capable of only so much physical and mental effort. 

III – As society has advanced it has become more complex. 

IV – As society has become more complex the knowledge, skills, and effort needed to maintain and advance it have grown exponentially.  

V – Since societies demands for knowledge, skills, and effort has grown so intense the knowledge, skills, and effort of single individuals is no longer sufficient for most tasks. 

VI – As such the knowledge, skills, and efforts of many individuals is required to maintain and advance society.  

VII – Failure of individuals to collaborate and combine their knowledge, skills, and efforts will hinder civilization.   

I – To have absolute personal freedom a given individual’s wants and needs will necessarily have to be placed above all other individuals wants and needs.  

II – If each individual’s wants and needs are placed above all other individuals wants and needs each individual will necessarily compete with each other individual.  

III – This competition between individuals will necessarily cause some individuals to suffer unnecessarily. 

IV – By placing their own wants and needs above all others some select individuals will act in abhorrent manners to advance their own interests. 

V – In a society which grants absolute personal freedoms there is no mechanism to control or restrict those individuals who act abhorrently. 

VI – Any effort to control or restrict any given individual for any reason would remove said individual’s absolute freedom. 

VII – The restriction of an individual’s absolute freedom to prevent abhorrent behavior by said individual is the creation and promotion of the collective good.  

I – In any social group a shared or social morality will exist. 

II – Said social morality is to varying degrees based on a group’s inherent virtues, histories, religions, and shared stories.  

III – As society advances and changes its morality must also advance and change. 

IV – Increased understanding and complexity are the catalysts of societies changes. 

V – The advancements wrought by increased understanding and complexity must be tempered by the wisdom of the past. 

VI – The existence of a social morality necessarily influences individual’s morality, and individual morality necessarily influences social morality.  

VII – Each action undertaken by an individual will expose said individual to praise or shame based on the social morality of the group.  

VIII – A social group will act in a manner to enforce and perpetuate its social morality. 

I – Laws are a function of the formation of government which occurs when many individuals invest their individual power into a single consolidated leadership.  

II – Laws are a collective attempt to force compliance with socially normative behavior. 

III – Laws seek to enforce socially normative behavior by placing extra risk on certain behaviors. 

IV – Most individuals choose to support and obey laws as they help protect individuals from one another.  

V – Laws are necessary to promote social morality, and cooperation which are both vital to the maintenance and advancement of society.  

VI – For laws to exist, persist, and be beneficial they must serve the majority in some positive way.  

I – War is inevitable.  

II – War is inherently wrong as it causes pain, suffering, hardship, and horror. 

III – All reasonable effort should be exhausted to resolve conflict before it escalates into war. 

IV – Being well prepared for war is inherently right as it will serve to minimize pain, suffering, hardship, and horror. 

V- When unavoidable war should be pursued with the intent to end it both decisively and unconditionally. 

VI – When unavoidable war should be pursued with vigor, intensity, and intelligence. 

VII – Understand that due to the very nature of war there will be pain, suffering, hardship, and horror; as such one must be prepared to cause harm. 

VIII – All reasonable effort should be exhausted in minimizing pain, suffering, hardship, and horror, especially among those not directly involved in said war. 

I - History is the preservation of knowledge or events beyond the moment of said knowledge or events inception. 

II – History can be preserved in many mediums, and the same piece of history can be preserved in multiple mediums.  

III – All events are a direct result of the preceding events, as such the present and the future are in part dictated by history and our understanding of it.  

IV – History is necessarily colored by the observers of said moment and the media in which it is stored.  V – History no matter how clear is always open to interpretation. 

VI – It is possible to change the interpretation or perceived meaning of history by affecting the storage media of said history. 

VII – Some actors will purposely change history in an effort to affect others interpretation of history. VIII- Not all of these actors will have good intentions, and even those with good intentions might be misguided. 

IX – As such it is ethically, personally, societally, and evolutionarily vital that history is preserved as accurately as possible with as little bias as possible.  

X - As such it is ethically, personally, societally, and evolutionarily vital that history is examined and recounted as accurately as possible with as little bias as possible.