![]() Scarification: Some belief systems value ritual scars on the body, while others deplore the idea.Research: Expanding one’s knowledge may be trivial or crucial to a colony.Ranching: The right way to live is to raise large animals for their meat.Failing to do so means that you are also weak. Raiding: The strong take from the weak.Proselytizing: Spreading your beliefs may be an occasional task or your ultimate duty.Pain: To suffer and undergo violent, nerve-singing pain is to be moral.Male/female clothing: Opinions differ on which parts of the body should be covered.Mining: Raiding the earth of its resources is an ugly act.Meat-eating: Colonies might be strict about following a carnivore diet, or reject it completely.Darkness combat: Some believers fight better in the dark.Lighting: Those adjusted to the darkness have a preference for darklights.Killing innocent animals: Such acts may be disapproved, hated, or unthinkable.Diversity of thought: Varies widely from deep appreciation to intense bigotry.Drug use: Drugs may be prohibited, limited to medical and social use, or essential.Corpses: Seeing the dead may be disturbing to colonists or it may not bother them at all.Slab bed: Some think the proper way to sleep is on a cold, uncomfortable slab.Comfort: Some pay no attention to comfort.Physical love: Restrictions on intimate life.Men/women’s spouses: Rules exist regarding how many spouses a man or woman can have. ![]() Charity: Charitable belief systems emphasize the importance of generosity and helping others.Bonding: Some believe forming personal bonds with animals is good - others don’t.Body modification: Some demand modified bodies, while others abhor them.Blind psysense: Blind individuals have special ways to connect to the psychic aether.Blindness: Some people believe that to be blinded is to be moral and unclouded by physical reality.Autonomous weapons: Views vary on whether machines should be allowed to decide who to kill.Apostasy: Abandoning one’s belief system indicates character flaws or deep immorality.Slaughtering animals: It may be necessary for food, but others strongly disapprove.Animal connection: Some belief systems have a strong connection to animals and consider them friends.Therefore, it must never be harmed, and people are happier with it around. Venerated animal: A certain animal is believed to have a special moral role.Execution: This act is potentially evil beyond measure, necessary, and even enjoyed.Organ use: Opinions differ on the harvest, sale, purchase, and installation of organs.Fungus eating: Mushy fungus food, which can now be farmed underground on fungal gravel, is preferred by some and hated by others.Insect meat: The slimy flesh of insects can be gross or delectable.Cannibalism: Some believers find eating human flesh abhorrent, others are unbothered, and some hunger for it.Eating nutrient paste: This meal can be seen as disgusting or efficient.The same meme won’t always imply the same precepts - if you want fine control, you can edit and randomize precepts exactly the way you like. Each precept is a specific rule or guideline which affects a specific behavior or preference. Collectivist: A person's role is to serve the community.Įach meme can give rise to a variety of different precepts.Individualist: A community's role is to serve each individual.Guilty: Our people carry guilt from ages past.Loyalist: We stand for our own before others.Supremacist: Our people should dominate all others.Male supremacy: Men are the superior gender and should rule.Female supremacy: Women are the superior gender and should rule.Human primacy: Humans are the moral center of the universe.Nature primacy: Man is a stain on nature's perfection.High life: Exotic states of mind are central to a good life.Proselytizer: It is our duty to spread our beliefs.Raider: The strong should take from the weak.Flesh purity: The human body should not be debased.Transhumanist: Human progress means merging with technology.Blindsight: Only the blind can perceive true reality.Nudism: Clothing binds, controls, and suffocates us. ![]()
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