Values

These are some of the principles we want to promote. If you also value these principles, we would love you join our community.

• People are more important than profit.
• Confrunting an awkward truth is better than embracing a comforting fiction.
• An educated opinion is far better than an unfounded belief.
• Science is entirely different from religion.
• All people deserve respect. Ideas and beliefs, on the other hand, must be subject to, and withstand, thoughtful scrutiny.
• We can prosper by valuing what we have, rather than always demanding more stuff.
• The best societies are those that prioritise the dignity and opportunities for prosperity of those with the least over those with the most.
• Business and corporations must always recognise their debt to the communities from which they have come. They must work in the interests of the people, and never the reverse.
• Exessive wealth is not a sign of fitness, instead it displays the weakness of character of someone who is willing to exploit a broken system. Extreme wealth is almost never earned.
• A person's worthiness or intrinsic value is not, in any way, linked to their net wealth.
• Wealth does not make a person 'better', but it does give them more options. They can use those to help others.
• Whatever we do, we do it with a benevolent intent.
• We are all at different points in our idealistic journeys - we should celebrate each milestone along the correct path.
• Doing what's right is seldom easy, what's easy is seldom right. Doing what's right is its own reward.

Alongside these principles, we must ensure that our means are compatible with our ends: that the means we adopt to pursue our values and encourage broader society to reflect them, are compatible with those values. The last thing we want to be guitly of is hypocricy.