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WORLD MORALS EDITION XXI

Do not lie

Avoid intentional falsehood, fraud, duplicity, and manipulative concealment.

Comparative atlas · Original English corpus · Evidence before conclusions

A mapping is not a verified quotation. Workbook labels are preserved. An absent mapping does not mean rejection. We do not rank the moral worth of any system.
Religious systems
32/52

61.5%

Nonreligious systems
9/41

22.0%

Represented systems
41/93

44.1%

Specific anchors*
4/41

9.8%

*Calculated from source labels beginning “Specific”; not a count of verified quotations.

Corpus definition

Avoid intentional falsehood, fraud, duplicity, and manipulative concealment.

This is the atlas’s definition, not a substitute for a tradition’s own interpretation. Scope, exceptions and translations require review of each source.

Preserved calculation difference

The original index differs from recomputed unique-system or specific-anchor counts. Both are retained; the source file is unchanged.

All Systems: source 94 · recomputed 93

Overall %: source 43.6 · recomputed 44.086

Evidence, mapping by mapping

41 selected mappings

Zoroastrianism · Tradition-level research anchor

Do not lie · System profile

Workbook anchor (not a quotation)

Avesta and Asha-centered ethics

Open original source ↗ www.avesta.org

Tradition-level research anchor · Iranian

Comparative analogue only; verify exact wording, translation, school, denomination, historical context, scope, and exceptions before formal quotation.

Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 1923. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.

History and geography: source limits

This edition does not supply a historical genealogy or coordinates for this teaching. Transmission, invention, population and geographic presence are not inferred from a mapping.

Explore connections in the same category

Shared systems in the corpus, not evidence of historical influence.

M001 · Truth, Speech and Knowledge

Tell the truth

Speak and act honestly rather than intentionally misleading others.

44 / 93 systems mapped · 47.3%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M002 · Truth, Speech and Knowledge

Do not bear false witness

Do not give false testimony, fabricate accusations, or knowingly misrepresent another person.

41 / 93 systems mapped · 44.1%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M004 · Truth, Speech and Knowledge

Do not commit perjury

Do not make knowingly false statements under oath or solemn affirmation.

40 / 93 systems mapped · 43.0%
Workbook confidence: Developing
Unmodified source statistics
Primary Rank - Religious42
Overall Rank66
Nonreligious Rank123
Religious Frequency Tier8
Religions Sharing32
Religious Systems52
Religious %61.5
Nonreligious Groups Sharing9
Nonreligious Groups41
Nonreligious %22
All Systems Sharing41
All Systems94
Overall %43.6
Direct Official Anchors4
Direct Evidence %9.8
Cross-Sphere Balance Index35.8
Religious Adoption Gap39.5

Religion-weighted commonality

Provenance: Universal Moral Code — Statistical Atlas, Edition XXI. Names, definitions and source anchors are preserved verbatim. This atlas describes its corpus, not all beliefs or practices worldwide.