Abolish child labor
Prevent labor that deprives children of education, safety, health, or development.
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WORLD MORALS EDITION XXI
World Morals — a shared human inquiry
An interactive atlas of moral teachings across the world's religious and secular traditions — from ancient scriptures to modern ethics.
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.
- Moral teachings
- 610
- Religious systems
- 52
- Nonreligious systems
- 41
- Source evidence rows
- 10620
Many traditions. One invitation to understand.
Find a teaching, follow its source anchors, and explore common ground without erasing differences. Every number describes only the systems represented in this edition.
610 teachings found · Edition XXI
Accept and offer honest professional criticism
Use evidence-based criticism to improve work while avoiding humiliation or retaliation.
Accept responsibility for moral agency
Recognize freedom of choice as inseparable from accountability for one's decisions and their consequences.
Accept responsibility to the world community
Consider duties extending beyond family, nation, religion, or immediate self-interest.
Accept universal responsibility
Consider the effects of one's conduct on humanity, sentient beings, natural resources, and future generations.
Acknowledge errors
Correct one's own mistakes openly and responsibly.
Act independently from improper influence
Avoid obligations, payments, favors, and relationships that compromise editorial judgment.
Address social determinants of health
Improve water, sanitation, food, housing, education, work, and other conditions shaping health.
Adopt sustainable patterns of production and consumption
Reduce waste, overconsumption, pollution, and resource depletion while supporting dignified human well-being.
Advocate for the poor and oppressed
Use institutions, public witness, and practical service to defend dignity and social justice for marginalized people.
Align professed belief with daily conduct
Make moral commitments visible through consistent choices rather than words alone.
Align thought, word, and action with spiritual principles
Cultivate consistency between inward conviction, speech, habits, and outward conduct.
Allow liberty in nonessential matters
Do not impose uniformity where moral or theological differences are secondary and conscientious disagreement is possible.
Allow normal patterns of animal behavior
Provide sufficient space, social conditions, and environments for species-appropriate behavior.
Allow people to investigate and report rights violations
Protect access to information, documentation, observation, and communication concerning possible human-rights abuses.
Apply punishment proportionately
Ensure penalties are not excessive.
Appoint competent and impartial judges
Create courts staffed by qualified decision-makers capable of applying law fairly.
Assess AI risks throughout the lifecycle
Identify, document, mitigate, monitor, and revisit risks from design through retirement.
Attend to professional well-being and fitness
Maintain health and competence sufficient to provide safe, responsible care.
Avoid adultery
Do not violate one's own or another person's marriage covenant.
Avoid algorithmic discrimination
Do not deploy systems that unjustly disadvantage groups.
Avoid conflicts of interest
Disclose and manage interests that could improperly influence professional judgment.
Avoid contempt for another's faults
Correct wrongdoing without delighting in humiliation, superiority, or exposure of minor failings.
Avoid cruelty to animals
Do not cause needless suffering to sentient creatures.