Tenet I of the Four

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Leave them alone.

In body, in property, and in conscience, an Arkinnean interferes with no one who has not first interfered with them, and answers interference with the least force that ends it. Compelling another's conscience is interference — a stranger's, a child's, a spouse's. So is recruiting: Arkinnea does not proselytize, ever. And so is watching: a record of your own practice is devotion; a record of anyone else's is surveillance, and surveillance is a hand laid on someone who never invited it. Our teachings are published as a door left standing open, and we call no one through it. The only sermon permitted is the visible example of a life well built.

From the thinkers

"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others." — John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
"On no occasion call yourself a philosopher, nor talk much among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them... sheep don't throw up the grass to show the shepherds how much they have eaten; but, inwardly digesting their food, they outwardly produce wool and milk." — Epictetus, Enchiridion 46

From the story-cycle

Yoda taught that the Force is for knowledge and for defense, never for attack — and he recruited no one. He hid in a swamp; Luke had to seek him out; even then he was refused before he was taught. Wisdom that goes knocking is selling something.