Protect the health and competence of caregivers
Attend to one's own health, well-being, and professional ability so care remains safe and effective.
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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 the moral well-being of society
Exercise freedom with regard for public welfare, mutual duties, and the rights of other persons and peoples.
Protect the oppressed
Defend those subjected to domination or persecution.
Protect the reputation of the innocent
Do not permit unjust accusations to stand unchallenged.
Protect trafficking victims from revictimization
Provide safety, assistance, privacy, and procedures that do not repeat coercion or trauma.
Protect vulnerable sources
Use heightened care with children, victims, confidential sources, and persons facing retaliation.
Protect water and food sources
Preserve the purity and availability of basic necessities.
Protect whistleblowers acting in good faith
Do not retaliate against persons who responsibly report serious wrongdoing.
Protect witnesses and victims of corruption
Safeguard persons who assist investigations or suffer from corrupt conduct.
Provide age-appropriate guidance
Support children's growing autonomy in a manner consistent with their evolving capacities.
Provide animals adequate food and water
Ensure animals under human control are free from hunger, malnutrition, and thirst.
Provide appropriate care in later life
Ensure access to health, social, legal, and supportive services responsive to older persons' needs.
Provide appropriate physical comfort
Protect animals from harmful temperatures, exposure, confinement, and physical discomfort.
Provide care without discrimination
Base care on health needs rather than prejudice or irrelevant status.
Provide charity according to actual need
Respond to the concrete needs of poor and vulnerable persons rather than giving only symbolic assistance.
Provide durable solutions for displaced people
Pursue safe return, local integration, resettlement, or other secure long-term pathways.
Provide effective remedies for attacks on defenders
Ensure prompt, impartial investigation and meaningful remedy when defenders face violence, threats, or unlawful interference.
Provide equitable access to healthcare
Ensure healthcare is available without unjust discrimination or financial exclusion.
Provide fair redress for dispossession
Repair unjust deprivation of lands, resources, culture, or means of subsistence.
Provide humane rest to workers and animals
Protect recurring rest from relentless production and include dependent workers and animals in that protection.
Provide migrant workers equal remuneration for equal work
Do not pay lower wages solely because a worker is foreign, temporary, undocumented, or socially vulnerable.
Provide reasonable accommodation
Make appropriate adjustments that enable equal participation without disproportionate burden.
Provide redress for dispossession and cultural harm
Offer fair restitution, compensation, restoration, or other effective remedies for wrongful taking or destruction.
Provide safe working conditions
Protect workers from preventable danger and injury.