Disclose clinically significant errors
Communicate serious errors honestly and take steps to reduce harm and recurrence.
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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
Disclose material business impacts
Communicate reliable information about significant governance, social, labor, and environmental impacts.
Disclose serious hazards
Promptly report conditions that threaten public safety, health, rights, or the environment.
Disclose technical dangers promptly
Communicate credible risks, defects, limitations, and hazards to affected people and responsible authorities.
Disclose when people are interacting with AI
Make users reasonably aware when decisions, communications, or content are generated or materially shaped by AI.
Distinguish fact, interpretation, and belief
Represent levels of certainty honestly.
Distinguish news from advertising and advocacy
Label sponsored, promotional, opinion, and advocacy content so audiences are not deceived.
Distribute climate burdens and benefits justly
Allocate mitigation, adaptation, costs, and opportunities with regard for responsibility, capacity, vulnerability, and equality.
Do good to all people
Extend benevolent action beyond one's own group.
Do not abandon vulnerable dependents
Continue reasonable care toward those reliant upon you.
Do not abuse authority
Do not use institutional power for cruelty or self-aggrandizement.
Do not be stingy with material or spiritual resources
Share resources, knowledge, attention, and support rather than withholding them through selfishness.
Do not bear false witness
Do not give false testimony, fabricate accusations, or knowingly misrepresent another person.
Do not betray trust
Avoid exploiting intimacy, confidence, or dependency.
Do not bribe or corrupt justice
Reject payments or favors that distort public duty.
Do not charge exploitative interest to the needy
Do not profit from another person's poverty through oppressive lending terms.
Do not cheat
Reject dishonest advantage in education, games, business, or public life.
Do not commit perjury
Do not make knowingly false statements under oath or solemn affirmation.
Do not conceal abuse to protect institutions
Place victim safety and justice above organizational reputation.
Do not confiscate migrant workers' identity documents
Do not use passports, permits, or identity documents as tools of control, debt bondage, or forced labor.
Do not create malicious software
Do not build tools designed to steal, sabotage, extort, or injure.
Do not criticize others destructively
Avoid speech that attacks others' character without necessity, fairness, or constructive purpose.
Do not deceive through omission
Do not conceal material facts when silence is intended to mislead.
Do not defraud
Do not obtain benefit through deception or dishonest manipulation.