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There is one truth central to all existance:
Life is sacred.  We must always keep that fact in mind, and act accordingly.


Help those that cannot help themselves.
	
	The helpless are always at risk, and must be protected.  However, those
that cannot help themselves must be brought forth from that state whenever
possible.  There will be times when the strong will not be able to assist the
weak, and we must prepare the weak for those times.


Heal the sick.

	Those ill of body or spirit must be restored to health as quickly as
possible in order to best insure their survival and the survival of those
around them.  However, the physician must not hurry the patient unnecessarily;
a fragile or faulty healing is often wasted effort.


Always hold mercy in your heart.

	Although the time will come that, in order to save lives, another life
must end or an individual must suffer, that ending or suffering must be
minimized.  Any life is sacred, even those lives that must end for the good of
all.  Only punish where it will change, and always understand those punished.
Love your enemies, and you will better understand.


Speak truth in both voice and action.

	Deception undermines society and other relations among various of the
Peoples, for it eats away at Trust.  Without Trust, we cannot unite against the
forces that oppose life.  


Respect the aged.

	The old of the world have lived through much, and signify that which is
worthwhile in life.  They have watched friends and family live and die.  They
have seen and embraced the comraderie and trust necessary for any true
existence.  They wait now for the unfortunate final facet of Life, but do not
pity them; they better prepared for the passage to Apht than all others that
are driven forth before their appointed time.


The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

	Life is sacred, and yet lives must be sacrificed so that others may
continue.  Some lives are given willingly, other must be taken.  We must only
take lives when no other course of action will succeed.  We must be prepared to
make difficult and painful decisions, and act upon them.  A choice between
lives can only be made by the affect of those lives on others.

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