4. SELF DEFENSE: You have the right to defend against any aggression on your life, your property, your privacy and all of your rights with force. No permission should ever be required to defend your legitimate rights. Anybody attempting to disarm you, as long as you have not initiated aggression, is your enemy. The only reason they would have to disarm innocents is in preparation to cause them harm once they are unable to defend themselves.

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5. INDEPENDENCE: You have the right to decide for yourself. you should be free to join or not join any collective endeavour. Your voluntary consent is required before enrolling your time, energy, property, name or any other thing that belongs to you in any scheme, organisation or institution. Force is not a legitimate way to have people participate in any kind of business, community or governmental activity or institution. There is always a choice and you have the right to exercise it.

6. P2P: You have the right to interact with your peers without intermediaries. Cartels and monopolies enforced by law are illegitimate. If you can sell to your neighbour, you should not be forced to accept a middleman. If you can trade P2P, you should not be forced to accept a centralised trusted third party.

7. FOSS: You have the right to decide what protocols you participate in and the right to know what those protocols mean. Only Free Open Source Software can guarantee transparency and choice. Closed source is dangerous ton your property and privacy. A closed source contract is a tool for enslavement. A closed source monopoly is serfdom. We should recognise those that push them as exploiters or at best potential exploiters.

8. DECENTRALISATION: Local solutions are best. Multiple solutions in competition favour the user and lead to progress. Monopolies and centralised impositions destroy choice, violate your rights and lead to worse outcomes as they are ideal tools for exploitation. Restrictions on competition, barriers to entry and top-down regulations that put smaller providers at an artificial disadvantage should be denounced and abolished.

9. CHOICE: Your voluntary decision is a requirement for legitimate participation. It is the expression of your independence. It is the expression of your consent and your free will. Any regulation that does not allow for choice is illegitimate. An opt-out clause should be required in any regulation.

10. RULE OF LAW: Laws must be simple, clear and easy to understand for all people that they apply to. Laws must apply to all people, guaranteeing equal rights before the law. Laws must be approved and consented to by the people. Laws cannot change frequently or be subject to changing interpretation. Laws cannot be enforced arbitraliry or selectively. If a law cannot be universally enforced it should not exist. Laws must be few: no citizen should have to professionally study law to understand their obligations and rights. Hyperlegislation destroys respect for the law and its effectiveness. The number of laws should be strictly limited.