No value exists but by decision. All values are acquired or let go by making and executing decisions. That includes eternal values. No human or group or institution or organization or government of humans is ethical or moral. But you and we can make ethical decisions that yield moral outcomes. The more decisions you make, the more skilled you become. Over time, nearly every decision you make can rest within your ethical guidelines and carry moral potentials into your lifespace and your environment. The meaning of your life is what you state, the value of maintaining your life is what you determine, the purpose of your life is what you decide it will be and your happiness will be a progress report from your conscience.

You cannot not make a decision.

No individual can abdicate or resign from the power of decision. You can decide to not decide but that is no escape from responsibility. Your decision to not decide puts you responsible for all the results and products ensuite with your decision to not decide. If your decision to not decide involves a surrogate or default decision maker, you hold the responsibility for the surrogate or default decision. If your decision to not decide simply grants free play to external forces of any kind, you are responsible for any impact of those forces upon anything or anyone. Decision is the one activity cum responsibility you cannot escape or avoid. To grant some of your power to another individual or organization or government is no relief. It is your decision that transfers your power to them. Their decisions are yours. To grant some of your sovereignty to another individual or organization or government is no relief. It is your decision that transfers your sovereignty to them. Their sovereignty is yours. Individuals, alone, hold the power of decision and potential to become sovereign and delegate decision and sovereignty.

This universe will convey you from the birth of your body to the death of your body. Your decisions pen your existence and become part of its history. Your body is comprised of material constituent of this universe so, unless you created this universe, your body is not yours and not you. That part of you which uses the word I, that part of you which makes decisions, is not yet known to medicine or science. It remains plausible that your I part, your soul essence animus spirit, existed before the birth of your body and will exist after your body expires. It is also plausible that your I part was formed of haploid parts contributed by parents and developed in a manner similar to your body. It is also plausible that your I part is comprised of material constituent of this universe but which we cannot yet detect or simply an aggregate function of many neuroanatomical structures yet too complex to detect and understand and explain. The preponderance of all evidence from medicine and science describes an ability to study information flowing to and instructions from your executive but no ability to study that executive, that decision making I part of you. The source of thoughts and input from conscience are not yet known either. It might forever be that the only proof that unique, individual humans exist is their own activity of making and executing decisions. I decide. Therefore I am me.

Evidence that supports the haploid formation of your I part includes the fact that your capacity and skill to make decisions develops over time and with practice. Fallible but not fallen, you make decisions and correct errors and gain knowledge and cover cost and earn wisdom that facilitates future decisions and reduces chance and extent of error.

Sovereign individuals have no need of an external agency to make decisions for them or stand responsible for them or judge them or regulate their behavior or instruct them or improve them or correct them or parent them because they accomplish all those values and activities by and for themselves. Because many individuals share one planet, external agencies are formed to facilitate these endeavors for all individuals. I am sovereign. My decisions are sealed and shielded by my responsibility. When your decisions are sealed and shielded by your responsibility, each of us will have a sovereign life space.

In their aggregate, the decision rules styled below are the process by which you develop from dependence through independence to individuation and sovereignty. The more decisions you make, the more independent you become. The more responsibility you demand and prove, the more free you become. When you finally arrive at a point in development when you are making nearly every decision and proving nearly total responsibility for everything that is or occurs within the life space you create for yourself and your conscience is consistently giving you good progress reports, you are ready to claim sovereignty:

I Am and or I will and or I want comprise the only valid formulation of a decision and constitute your only legitimate claim that a decision is yours.

The only valid support for your decision is your knowledge and or your wisdom. You can receive knowledge and or wisdom from another individual or group or institution but you must test it sufficiently to verify it and make it your own. Apply your own logic, examine relevant evidence, replicate experiments or run your own but test gifted knowledge and or wisdom before you use it. Test the gifted knowledge and or wisdom for its applicability, sufficiency and efficacy relative to the decision you are currently processing and to the methods of execution under consideration. Only your knowledge and or wisdom makes it possible to modify the outbound potentials and correct errors that appear while making decisions, selecting methods, and putting them to effect. Your knowledge and or your wisdom enable assessment of the efficacy and effectiveness of your decision. Your conscience will provide guidance throughout the phases of making and executing a decision and issue a judgment at completion. Your conscience enables your assessment of fairness justice ethics and morality. You must consider the outbound potentials of your decision and determine the best method to give your decision effect. You must prove your ability to modify potentials and adjust methods and correct errors and cover their cost to claim responsibility. Having demonstrated that a decision is purely your own and that responsibility is totally your own, you will earn the results of your decision and a bonus of wisdom that you can apply to future decisions.

A decision supported by gifted knowledge or wisdom is not your decision. A decision judged by gifted conscience is not your decision. Gifted knowledge must be tested for validity and applicability. Gifted conscience might assist your own conscience as it works to assess the ethics of a decision and the morality of its potentials. For that cause, gifted input from the conscience of another individual or group can be accepted with gratitude but you must acknowledge that no conscience and no collected conscience is superior to your own. A decision must be supported by your knowledge and judged by your conscience purely. Otherwise, even though you are diluting your responsibility by using untested input from others you must accept responsibility for the formation and for the execution of that decision and bear all costs and correct all errors. You develop, as an individual, by making and executing decisions that are purely your own. Continuous use of gifted but untested knowledge wisdom and conscience will delay or delimit your development.

The thoughts that bubble up inside your head are equally valid with those inside any other head. All persons derive testable, knowledge building, decision supporting, wisdom earning information from the same universe and in their own language. No person is privy to information beyond what the universe provides. No electron of ethics or molecule of morality exists. No person is ethical. No person is moral. Those values can only derive from the formulation and execution of decisions. The judgments issued by your conscience are equally valid with those issued by any other.

No power is greater than the power of decision. Be this universe created, its creator would first decide to create.

Those who believe decision is the only power perceive themselves to exist separately from the creator and living in a universe existing separately from its creator.

Some postulate that, for the creator, imagination and belief are powers. Having three powers, a creator could decide to create, imagine the creation and then believe it to make it so. They perceive themselves and this universe to exist within the mind of the creator.

For those of us who reside in this universe, testing either belief is beyond our ability because our information is restricted to that provided by the universe. We can imagine that a creator exists and we can fervently believe that a creator exists yet no creator appears before us. We can imagine and even dream that we can fly, yet, no matter how fervently we believe we can fly, we decide to fly and board an aircraft to make it so.

For us, decision is the only power, not a lesser power; conscience is the only judge, not a lesser judge. Would we someday learn all the information provided for us by this universe, from its origin to its eventual transformation, we would learn nothing of its creator. For us, each decision and its outbound potentials must be supported by our own knowledge and judged by our own conscience.

BEWARE:  because.

If you make a decision because of anything beyond your trinity, you are diluting your power with the subject of because. You are binding yourself to something not you. You are giving your power to something or someone not you. The decision is not yours and you are diminished.

BEWARE:  fear.

If you make a decision for fear of anything beyond your trinity, you are diluting your power with the subject that you fear. You are binding yourself to the subject that you fear. You are giving your power to the subject that you fear. The decision is not yours and you are diminished.

BEWARE:  faith.

A decision formulated purely of your trinity must also be supported by your knowledge and or your wisdom. Belief is the tool that you use to build knowledge. With an unknown value juxtaposed or merged or couched with known values, you can formulate a belief and design a test that can falsify that belief. By formulating beliefs and conducting tests, you can build a base of knowledge that will support the decisions you want to make. Faith is the active substitution of belief for knowledge. Faith bypasses the whole process of building knowledge and supporting decisions and earning wisdom. It leaves you with no way to conduct all the phases of a decision. Since you cannot conduct all the required phases, a faith based decision is the most dangerous and the most irresponsible act that you can commit. Worse yet, since your development from dependence through independence to individuation and sovereignty is driven entirely by the decisions you make and the knowledge you build and the wisdom you earn; the use of faith will arrest your own progress. If you would continue to make faith based decisions, you could deprive yourself of ever becoming an individual and building a sovereign life space for yourself.

Worst of all, by misusing (because fear faith), you could deprive yourself of ever becoming you, disappoint any person who loves you and the universe that made way for you. You would deny the absolute autonomy and equality you were created with and you would deprive the creator of its desire and deny the creating force its design.

Your body is born of biology by decision of others. You are born of individuation by decisions that you make. Without decision, your body and you cannot exist.