Help relieve an overburdened person or animal
Assist when a person or working animal is struggling under a dangerous or excessive burden.
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WORLD MORALS EDITION XXI
Ransom captives and free people from grave danger
Treat the rescue of persons held in dangerous captivity as an urgent charitable and communal duty.
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
- 5/52
- Nonreligious systems
- 2/41
- Represented systems
- 7/93
- Specific anchors*
- 1/7
9.6%
4.9%
7.5%
14.3%
*Calculated from source labels beginning “Specific”; not a count of verified quotations.
Corpus definition
Treat the rescue of persons held in dangerous captivity as an urgent charitable and communal duty.
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 7.4 · recomputed 7.5269
Evidence, mapping by mapping
7 selected mappings
Cao Dai Religious Ethics · Official framework-level anchor
Ransom captives and free people from grave danger · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
Cao Dai teachings on love, justice, moderation, universal kinship, and religious harmony
Open original source ↗ caodai.com.vn
Official framework-level anchor · Vietnamese syncretic religion
Framework-level mapping: verify exact doctrinal wording, translation, historical setting, institutional authority, and scope before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 9489. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
Church of the Nazarene Christianity · Official framework-level anchor
Ransom captives and free people from grave danger · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
Official beliefs, mission, compassionate ministry, discipleship, holiness, and Manual resources
Open original source ↗ nazarene.org
Official framework-level anchor · Abrahamic / Christian
Framework-level mapping: verify exact doctrinal wording, translation, historical setting, institutional authority, and scope before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 9490. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
Earth Charter Ethics · Official framework-level anchor
Ransom captives and free people from grave danger · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
Earth Charter principles of respect, ecological integrity, justice, democracy, nonviolence, and peace
Open original source ↗ earthcharter.org
Official framework-level anchor · Global ecological and social ethics
Framework-level mapping: verify the exact principle or article, affected community, legal status, and interpretive scope before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 9491. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
Kardecist Spiritism · Official framework-level anchor
Ransom captives and free people from grave danger · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
Allan Kardec's moral teachings and official United States Spiritist Federation resources
Open original source ↗ spiritist.us
Official framework-level anchor · Spiritist religious-philosophical tradition
Framework-level mapping: verify exact text, doctrinal or institutional authority, historical context, and scope before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 9492. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
Maimonidean 613 Mitzvot Ethics · Specific primary/official anchor
Ransom captives and free people from grave danger · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
Mishneh Torah, Gifts to the Poor 8:10
Open original source ↗ www.sefaria.org
Specific primary/official anchor · Abrahamic / Jewish
Jewish commandments may be ritual, civil, agricultural, Temple-specific, group-specific, or universally ethical; mapping does not erase those distinctions.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 9493. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
Tenrikyo · Official framework-level anchor
Ransom captives and free people from grave danger · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
Official Tenrikyo teachings on the Joyous Life, mutual help, hope, and service
Open original source ↗ www.tenrikyo.or.jp
Official framework-level anchor · East Asian religion
Framework-level mapping: verify exact wording, institutional status, historical context, and scope before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 9494. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
The Salvation Army Christianity · Official framework-level anchor
Ransom captives and free people from grave danger · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
International mission, social justice, governance, and values statements
Open original source ↗ www.salvationarmy.org
Official framework-level anchor · Abrahamic / Christian
Framework-level mapping: verify exact text, doctrinal or institutional authority, historical context, and scope before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 9495. 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.
Pay workers promptly
Do not retain earned wages beyond the agreed or legally required time.
Do not stand idly by when another is endangered
Take reasonable action to rescue or protect a person facing serious and preventable harm.
Unmodified source statistics
| Primary Rank - Religious | 364 |
|---|---|
| Overall Rank | 391 |
| Nonreligious Rank | 414 |
| Religious Frequency Tier | 35 |
| Religions Sharing | 5 |
| Religious Systems | 52 |
| Religious % | 9.6 |
| Nonreligious Groups Sharing | 2 |
| Nonreligious Groups | 41 |
| Nonreligious % | 4.9 |
| All Systems Sharing | 7 |
| All Systems | 94 |
| Overall % | 7.4 |
| Direct Official Anchors | 1 |
| Direct Evidence % | 14.3 |
| Cross-Sphere Balance Index | 51 |
| Religious Adoption Gap | 4.7 |
Specialized or emerging teaching