Protect community-defined development
Respect peoples' right to pursue their own visions of social, cultural, and economic 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
Protect confidences entrusted through care
Keep private information received through a helping or spiritual relationship in sacred confidence.
Protect congregants from domestic violence
Respond to abuse with safety, accountability, and appropriate professional or legal assistance.
Protect cultural continuity
Support communities' ability to sustain identity, institutions, practices, and memory.
Protect due process
Use fair procedures before imposing punishment or deprivation.
Protect family responsibilities
Fulfill duties of care, fidelity, and provision.
Protect freedom from religious coercion
Respect the right not to profess, practice, finance, or submit to a religion.
Protect freedom of association
Allow peaceful communities and organizations to form.
Protect freedom of conscience
Avoid coercion in matters of ultimate belief.
Protect freedom of expression responsibly
Preserve expression while addressing direct harm and incitement.
Protect freedom of religion and conscience
Defend the right to believe, worship, teach, change belief, or decline belief without coercion.
Protect future persons in biomedical decisions
Consider foreseeable effects of biomedical choices on future generations.
Protect genetic privacy
Safeguard genetic information from unauthorized disclosure, discrimination, and misuse.
Protect harmony in moral community
Avoid speech and conduct that deliberately fracture communities of practice.
Protect health information
Safeguard personal health data and disclose it only with legitimate authority and proportionality.
Protect human-rights defenders from retaliation
Prevent violence, threats, discrimination, pressure, surveillance, or punishment directed at legitimate rights advocacy.
Protect Indigenous children from forced removal
Do not separate Indigenous children from their families or communities through discriminatory or assimilationist policies.
Protect Indigenous cultural and spiritual practices
Safeguard ceremonies, sacred sites, traditions, institutions, and spiritual relationships from suppression or desecration.
Protect Indigenous lands, territories, and resources
Respect Indigenous relationships to traditionally owned, occupied, used, or acquired lands, waters, and resources.
Protect Indigenous languages
Preserve and revitalize languages as carriers of knowledge, identity, and community.
Protect Indigenous languages and knowledge
Support the transmission, revitalization, control, and responsible use of Indigenous languages and traditional knowledge.
Protect individual freedom within equal rights
Support the fullest personal freedom compatible with the equal rights and freedom of others.
Protect information integrity
Reduce deceptive synthetic content, impersonation, provenance loss, and manipulation of public knowledge.
Protect innocent life
Act prudently to protect people from grave harm.