This post will begin a series that are related to decision-making. Of all activities of human expression, NOTHING would get done without decisions. How those decisions are formed is totally influenced by the values we hold dearest to our lives, and our beliefs/assumptions, expectations/intentions and their fulfillment, which is measurable. Keep this process in mind as it will come up repeatedly in the future.

Decision-making that involves value judgments is a morality. Think of a morality as a software decision-making program. Concerning software, as external parameters change, more accurate results are needed that reflect that change. That calls for a decision-making software upgrade. As social architects our intention is to design a society that will stand the test of time by creating a social architecture that has its foundations buried deep in the values that have sustained our species for thousands of years.

Today we will explore the use of those values and the decision-making process outlined above to invent a timeless and universal form of morality that can be used accurately by any person now or 5,000 years in the future in any culture, nation, government or organization. I do not include religions simply because a socially sustainable morality is secular in nature.

A socially sustainable moral code proactively evaluates options, choices, decisions and actions in three ways:
1.  + Actions that contribute to the sustainability of another individual, family, or community have a positive moral value.
2.  ᴓ Actions that neither contribute nor injure another’s capability to contribute to the sustainability of their society have neutral value.
3.  – Actions that detract from social sustainability of that person, another person, family, community, or society have a negative moral value.

A socially sustainable moral code provides eminent clarity: To define the proactive behavior of individuals and organizations to promote positive moral behavior that contributes to the social sustainability of individuals, families and communities. To clearly define immorality — behaviors that
1) Destroy the potential of (an)other citizen(s) to make a positive contribution to the sustainability of themselves, their family, community or society;
2) Diminish the capacity of a person to make a contribution to society;
3) Squander the resources of society as it works toward social sustainability; and those that
4) Require society to come to the aid of an injured citizen to recover their capacity to make a contribution to the sustainability of themselves, their family, community and society; or, support them in their incapacity for their lifetime or until they are healed.