The OSE Ethic

• Land stewardship, like the Land Ethic
• We are all in it together. There is no us and them if we are seeking win-win solutions. This is our basis for unleashed collaboration and end of artificial scarcity.
• It is a ne's moral, practical imperative to learn, to do lifelong learning, and to adapt constantly to need ideas, while preserving core values (No Assholes.
• We have a moral and practical imperative to change the world from the current status quo. There are pressing world issues to solve. Each field of human endeavor has numerous outstanding questions - ready to be solved through open collaboration
• Creating systems for scarcity and acting out of a scarcity mindset to function for one's own benefit rather than serving the world - is not ethical.
• Unless we take full responsibility for something, we do not have the moral authority to complain about it. For example, do not think I'll of a fossil fuel company if you drive a car or use a cell phone - both of which were enabled with fossil fuels. A responsible act would be to begin working on replacing the technology with more benign alternatives.
• Take on a long term view. Most people underestimate what they can do in the long term, and overestimate what they can do in the short term.