Prioritize public safety
Place public health, safety, and welfare above improper private pressure.
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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
Prioritize the most urgent cases of distress
Allocate limited assistance according to severity and vulnerability rather than privilege or influence.
Promote benevolence
Actively seek the material, moral, and spiritual good of others.
Promote civic participation
Enable people to contribute to decisions affecting them.
Promote disarmament and restraint
Reduce unnecessary means and incentives for mass violence.
Promote equality of opportunity
Remove preventable barriers that deny fair chances to learn, work, worship, and participate.
Promote friendship across racial and religious groups
Create sustained relationships and cooperation among people divided by race, religion, nationality, or culture.
Promote independence in later life
Support older persons' autonomy, income security, housing, mobility, and ability to direct daily life.
Promote independent living
Support people's ability to choose where and with whom they live and participate in community life.
Promote interfaith respect
Engage differing religions without coercion or contempt.
Promote literacy and critical thinking
Enable people to evaluate claims and resist manipulation.
Promote solidarity
Recognize interdependence and shared responsibility.
Protect and restore ecological integrity
Conserve and restore ecosystems, biodiversity, soils, waters, atmosphere, and natural processes that sustain life.
Protect animals from fear and distress
Manage handling, housing, transport, and environments to reduce avoidable fear and distress.
Protect animals from pain, injury, and disease
Prevent suffering and provide timely veterinary care, treatment, or humane relief.
Protect biodiversity
Preserve species and ecosystems.
Protect children
Safeguard children from abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
Protect children from economic exploitation
Do not use children in work that harms health, education, dignity, or development.
Protect children from sexual exploitation
Prevent abuse, trafficking, grooming, pornography, and commercial sexual exploitation.
Protect children from sexual harm
Prevent grooming, abuse, exploitation, and exposure.
Protect children in armed conflict
Do not recruit or use children in hostilities and provide special protection during war.
Protect children in digital environments
Reduce exploitation, addiction, abuse, and harmful exposure.
Protect children's identity
Safeguard a child's name, nationality, family relationships, and cultural identity.
Protect communities from genocide
Oppose intentional destruction of peoples and cultures.