The Only Moral Code You’ll Ever Need
I will keep this article straightforward as there is a tendency for us humans to overcomplicate ethics and moral codes, when there actually needn’t be.
The simple moral code of The Navigation Codex is easily applied, works universally and always leads to good outcomes without falling into the pitfalls and traps of countless other moral codes.
So, let’s dive in and look at the ethics of The Navigation Codex.
Two Moral Principles
Many complex moral systems have multiple principles and these often lead to internal contradictions. The Navigation Codex has two clear inviolable principles that create no internal contradictions.
- Always tell the truth
- Never impede another human’s sovereignty
That’s it. Don’t worry, I will elaborate on both of these principles below.
Why This Cuts Through ALL Moral Confusion
Most moral systems are designed to validate human emotions. In other words, they are human constructs to make humans feel good about themselves.
This creates the problem of circular ethics.
Society sets the moral codes, and society programs you through media, culture and conditioning about what you should feel emotionally in response to the moral structure.
This also creates a big problem, because as attitudes in society change, morals and ethics change. A true moral code is unbreakable, unyielding and unbendable – but modern ethics often moves along lines of what makes people feel good.
Here are some examples of moral codes and societal conditioning:
- Being agreeable is considered kind and virtuous – but often leads to poor outcomes for you and the people around you.
- Following experts on morals feels wise – but experts are often completely wrong.
- Using green technology to resist climate change feels like virtue – but you are essentially creating artificial resistance to nature.
The Navigation Codex doesn’t care about your feelings, it cares about fundamental integrity – or in two principles, truth and sovereignty.
Principle One – Always Align with Truth
Telling the truth is ALWAYS natural alignment. Telling the truth can NEVER be resistance.
This means in application:
- Telling the truth even if it hurts someone else’s feelings,
- Acknowledging reality even if it contradicts what you personally believe,
- Following your authentic guidance system even if others disapprove,
- Admitting you are wrong instead of putting up walls to protect your ego,
- Exposing lies and manipulation even if it is unpopular to do so.
Telling the truth is natural flow because it is fundamental to the structure of reality.
People tell lies currently for all manner of reasons, here are some common reasons people lie:
- Telling the truth might upset someone – the problem here is their comfort doesn’t override the truth and you’re also manipulating someone by lying and impacting their ability to navigate freely.
- But I might be wrong about what is true – absolutely fine, speak your truth anyway and accept if you are wrong, correction is personal growth.
- It’s not my place to expose the truth – if the truth has been revealed to you, reality demands you speak it.
- It’s not the right time to tell the truth – there is an old expression ‘truth delayed is truth denied,’ and this is completely accurate.
Principle Two – Never Impede Another Human’s Sovereignty
Principle two intertwines with principle one but it also extends to specific actions.
Every human is a sovereign being, in short that means they have an ABSOLUTE right over their own life and experience.
If you violate this sovereignty, it is the source of ALL genuine harm.
Blindingly Obvious Sovereignty Violations
- Physical harm such as murder, rape, assault, theft.
- Coercion such as forcing other’s choices through blackmail, threats or violence.
- Fraud such as deceiving someone to manipulate their decisions for your own purposes.
Subtle Sovereignty Violations
- Manipulation such as using guilt, shame or emotional pressure to control other’s choices.
- Enablement such as preventing someone from experiencing the consequences of their choices and learning from them.
- Co-dependency such as violating your sovereignty and another’s to restrict each other’s choices.
- Projection such as forcing or imposing your values, timelines or decisions on others.
- Superman mentality such as trying to rescue people or saving them when they haven’t asked for help.
The Sovereignty Test You Can Easily Apply to Check Your Moral Compass
If you find yourself about to take action that could conceivably have outcomes for other people, ask yourself:
“Am I trying to control this person’s choices or experience?”
Consider the question carefully and if yes, you are creating resistance and necessarily impeding someone else’s sovereignty.
What This Moral Code Looks Like in Practice
Let’s examine truth and sovereignty in everyday situations you might find yourself in over the course of your life.
Relationships – Moral Code
Telling the truth in relationships such as establishing boundaries with phrases like ‘I don’t want to do that’ prevents you from making choices you’re not comfortable with or lying and making excuses.
Sovereignty in relationships is respecting your partner and allowing them to make their own choices and experience the consequences of those choices.
This eliminates much of the coercion and friction in modern relationships such as emotional manipulation, people-pleasing etc.
You may well be thinking, but I can’t trust my partner to make good choices – but that is a ‘you’ problem. Accordingly, if your partner makes a choice, you are unhappy with, that is up to you to make your own sovereign decisions in response – again, how you react to someone else’s navigational choices, is a ‘you’ problem and even if their choices deeply hurt you, it is within you to make your own optimal choices for yourself from that point.
Parenting
As parents we understand we have a degree of responsibility over our children as they grow up. The level of responsibility diminishes as they grow up and become fully sovereign adults.
Telling the truth to children is about honest communication, explaining how reality works and the consequences of various choices.
Children have a degree of sovereignty, even from their earliest stages. As a parent it is important to recognise this but also understand they are not yet fully sovereign, so age appropriate guidance with natural consequences is the best way to ensure they grow into a fully actualised sovereign adult.
This eliminates a lot of the nastiness that creates natural barriers between parents and their children such as threats, bribery, emotional manipulation and overprotection. Children in modern society often actively resist parental coercion and it is little wonder; parents are getting the sovereignty balance wrong and imposing unfair restrictions on their children that are not born out by the truth of reality.
Work/Business – Moral Code
In our work and business activities we are constantly encountering various resistance patterns that prevent us from making meaningful progress. Largely this stems from dishonesty and lack of respect for other’s sovereignty.
If you adopt the moral principles about being honest about your capabilities, including what work you can comfortably take on and when you can have it completed by, results begin to take a positive turn.
Sovereignty respect in the workplace, coupled with the honesty aspect is profound. Allowing clients and colleagues to make informed decisions without trying to manipulate the outcome.
This eliminates common work or business problems that arise such as overpromising and under-delivering, workplace politics that cause conflicts and artificial deadlines that are missed because they’re unrealistic.
It also allows you to conduct your work with integrity and sovereignty, focusing on the projects and tasks that naturally align with you – and where nature flows, abundance grows.
Social/Political Issues
Social and political issues in society have become increasingly polarising and often lead to black and white opposing camps. The problem is that most people’s intuitive belief doesn’t operate in absolutes. You may well agree with some principles of an ideology but not with other aspects.
Speaking your truth is your ability to remain consistent in your beliefs, not be swayed by the community at large and not be forced into situations and dilemmas that harm your navigational journey.
Sovereignty is allowing others to form their own opinions without trying to cajole them into your belief system. It is also again about personal integrity, having your own belief system that is most authentic to your lived experience.
Operating from truth and respect for sovereignty eradicates all the harms of modern ‘ethical’ groups. It draws you away from virtue signalling (dishonesty) and group think, prevents you from trying to force others to ‘wake up’ and allows you to navigate your life happily, away from this toxic resistant filled world of faux morality.
An Important Note on The Navigation Codex and Social Justice
This framework doesn’t get bogged down in any particular group or cause. It transcends all causes as they are cyclical resistance patterns that seek to assert authority. That is true of ALL sides of any supposed moral group.
Ultimately, I am saying that you are entitled to your own views and beliefs and entitled to express them openly. You are not entitled to force those views and beliefs on others and not entitled to coerce people into behaving a way that aligns with your views and beliefs.
Exercise your truth and your free will but never impose it or force it on others. Let others experience life in the way they see fit – even if you vehemently disagree with it.
The Hard Truths This Reveals
This moral code isn’t a cozy self-aggrandising or self-rewarding moral system. If it was, it would be a broken moral system. Nature has a defined moral order; it is not for you to create resistance because it doesn’t make you feel good about yourself. Nature doesn’t care about your feelings; it cares about your wellbeing overall.
Here are some of those hard truths that may make you feel uneasy.
You CANNOT Save Anyone – Moral Code
Other sovereign adults will always make their own choices in life. Even when you try to intervene and force outcomes, it often goes even worse because artificial control narrows a person’s ability to navigate and leads to more extreme navigational choices.
Your job as a human is to share truth but not force or coerce or try to fix someone else’s problems.
If someone asks voluntarily for help, consider whether it meets your natural alignment to help, don’t just assume that you have the capacity to help. Oftentimes, you won’t have the capacity to help and will make the situation worse. Remember you have not got the same lived experience for the person asking for help, you can never walk in their shoes for them.
Help where naturally aligned and know your own capacity to help and say no if the help required exceeds that capacity.
Popular Causes Are Often Morally Wrong – If Not Always Wrong
Social movements will almost always be a core group of people with extreme and rigid views trying to create mass-movement on those views by forcing choices on others ‘for their own good.’
This is nothing more than sovereignty violation dressed up in layers of ‘virtue’.
There is nothing virtuous at all about violating someone’s sovereignty – it is ALWAYS wrong. This is true whatever the cause may be, I really have no interest in your personal ideologies when I write this, I am saying you do you and be in natural alignment but leave others alone.
Nice Necessarily Means Good – Moral Code
It does not. Being agreeable to others, accommodating their resistant choices and being conflict avoidant enables those poor choices to continue. It violates both living in truth and sovereignty principles.
There is a famous parable that highlights this perfectly, The monkey saying to the fish, “kindly let me help you or you’ll drown” as it drags the fish safely up a tree.
To put this in brutal terms, you have absolutely no fucking idea if what you deem to be kind will cause tremendous harm to the person you are trying to help.
Your Feelings Don’t Determine Right and Wrong
In life, people will make navigational choices that hurt us, don’t align with our direction or don’t align with out beliefs. There is always the possibility someone else’s decisions will upset you deeply. This is especially the case if they are not living by The Navigation Codex and are taking the usual resistance choices people tend to make.
If someone’s decisions upset you, that’s your problem to handle internally. It is not their problem to fix their behaviour or their choices. It is not for you to try and correct them.
All you can do is process that pain, understand they are sovereign human beings and able to make any choice they want to. And once you have processed your emotions, you continue on your life experiential journey, navigating optimally.
Common Moral Code Objections
There are always objections that materialists or societal moral codes kick up around ethics. The Navigation Codex addresses all problems, without fail.
“What About Children”
Children start off from the first moment with a small degree of sovereignty that over time develops into full sovereignty. As such, children need guidance. The goal is to guide them into full sovereignty, not try to unduly control them or worse still, control them indefinitely.
“What About Dangerous Choices”
Adults have the inherent right to make dangerous choices (and they often do). You have the moral obligation to share information but not to go beyond that. No coercion, no attempt to dissuade them. You can never force safety, if there is one thing materialist society demonstrates is that safety can never be forced – it just doesn’t work out, no matter the application.
“What About Society?”
Society as a whole benefits when large groups of individuals adopt this moral code. By individuals adopting truth and sovereignty the system as a whole works perfectly.
Of course, it is not for us to push people into the moral code, we can only hope to practice it individually if we so choose and that others follow by our example.
The funny aspect of this objection is that historically, without fail, any time individual sovereignty or truth is diminished, it always causes exponentially large problems because it always creates resistance.
Whole regimes have existed to limit sovereignty and use widespread propaganda to create fictional ‘truths’ and at what cost? The outcome is without fail painful.
“This Moral Code Seems Cold/Harsh”
Only if you don’t understand the moral code. Truth and sovereignty create genuine care, reverence for the world around us and provide moral meaning for us as we experience life.
You can disguise the erosion of truth and sovereignty with virtue or ‘kind actions’ and it always deteriorates into dysfunction. You show me a system that erodes truth and sovereignty, and I will show you how damaging it is.
Why This Moral Code Disturbs People
I think there are two main aspects to why this moral code disturbs people. First, you have to take responsibility for your life and experiences, and society has conditioned people to relinquish that responsibility.
Another factor is that this framework means you have to trust other people not to make navigational choices that harm you. And trust that if they do, you have the emotional capacity to understand that upset is a problem for you to navigate, not for them to fix.
Both are effectively fear based and nature doesn’t favour fear.
It also directly opposes the countless narratives that have been perpetuated in society. Under this framework activism and ‘virtue’ are harmful and what society tells you is ‘good’ is resistance that accumulates in our lives.
Remember, these examples such as activism and society telling you what to do are directly designed to restrict your sovereignty. These narratives are created to deceive you, keep you weak as an individual and keep you controlled.
The Revolutionary Moral Code Result
When you live by these two simple moral principles, you will be surprised by how transformative they are in your life.
- You become trusted by others. They know you to tell the truth, and they can rely on you to respect their individual decisions.
- You extricate yourself from the drama because you’re not trying to manipulate, coerce or force outcomes.
- You make better decisions for yourself because you are choosing to align with the true nature of reality rather than artificial societal conditioning.
- You attract like minded people who also respect truth and sovereignty. You’re no longer manipulating or open to manipulation.
- You provide an excellent model for strength by taking responsibility for your choices (even the bad ones) and allowing others to be responsible for their choices.
In short, by you adopting the moral principles on an individual basis the results grow exponentially outwards in a natural and non-forced way. It becomes a self-perpetuating moral framework that has so many positive outcomes that people will explore it naturally.
Of course, now I have shared this information it is up to you how you want to apply it in your life – or if you want to disregard it altogether. I am not here to convince you. Make your own choices in life and I wish you the best in creating beautiful experiences and abundance.