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Law of Absolute Right: Right action gets right results !
Knowledge of nature’s social law changes people’s lives: improves health, enlarges opportunities, and explains what it takes to get right result
The social law states that only action that is logical, appropriate and moral gets right results. When wrong results develop, the workability, practicality or honesty of the action is flawed. Nature’s social law was identified by the late Richard W. Wetherill in the 1920’s. Wetherill called it the “Law of Absolute Right”: Right Action gets Right Results. He taught his students the following steps to learning:
1. Receive information,
2. Look at the reality that it represents,
3. Study the implications of that reality,
4. Take the action that reality calls for.
Those steps are taken instinctively many times in daily life so, whether trivial or vital, any subject is a suitable example. Someone remarks, “It’s two o’clock.” A listener consults the clock to check the reality, then recognizes the implication that he is late for an appointment and hurriedly departs.
Sometimes those steps bring unattractive information. For example, when people are told about mistakes, they frequently avoid receiving such information, ignore the reality it represents, and thereby miss its implications and corrective action. Because people ignore those steps of learning, they do not easily correct their behavioral mistakes.
Wetherill observed that reality is disregarded most often when the risk involved seems remote. For example, people tend to disregard the reality of a risky lifestyle. They want to do what they want to do when they want to do it. Then they wonder why they experience burn out, accidents and physical ills.
When people fail to take the right steps of learning, they take wrong steps. After receiving information, they get emotional and form judgments. Later those judgments might be forgotten, but from subconscious levels, they influence every decision to which they relate.
In past times, people were ruled by royalty who ascribed their authority to rule as the divine right of kings. Today that concept has lost credibility, but people should now apply that same usurpation of authority to their judgments.
In forming judgments, people elevate their own opinions above the authority of nature’s social law. The Creator, whoever or whatever is responsible for what exists, created a world controlled by natural laws. Over the centuries, people unknowingly have ignored the social law and have been ruling their actions by the “divine right” of their judgments.
As a result, society suffers from all sorts of antisocial behavior. Who gave people the right to form judgments of reality? Are people in the position of the royals who ruled by fictional divine right? Wetherill’s students know that nature’s physical and nonphysical laws rule. They are inviolable and self-enforcing!
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This is the first organization I’ve come across that verbalizes, and brings to life a belief which I have had for many years. There are Physical Laws, and Natural (Moral) Laws of the Universe. They are promoting one of the intrinsic Natural (Moral) Laws.
To me, Science is man’s attempt to understand and explain the Physical Laws, and Religion is man’s attempt to understand and explain the Moral (Natural) Laws.
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After reading this board I feel moved to immerse myself in Wetherill’s writings on The Law of Absolute Right. The introductory ideas I read here remind me of the clear reasoning found in Ayn Rand and Aristotle.
When we are besieged by the cloudy, irrational or uninformed opinions, prejudices and manipulations of business, media, government and family members, Wetherill’s statement of the law appeals as a sound principle for our own healthy thinking.
The “steps to learning” soundly remind me not only how to raise children who understand natural and logical consequences of their behavior but also how we adults may also discern complex causal relationships as we endeavor to lead lives of intellectual honesty and morality.