Only when we can distinguish sociocentric thinking from ethical thinking can we begin to develop a conscience that is not equivalent to those values into which we have been socially conditioned. Here are some categories of acts that are unethical in-and-of themselves:
SLAVERY: Enslaving people, whether individually or in groups;
GENOCIDE: Systematically killing large masses of people;
TORTURE: Using torture to obtain a "confession";
DENIAL OF DUE PROCESS: Putting persons in jail without telling them the charges against them or providing them with a reasonable opportunity to defend themselves;
POLITICALLY MOTIVATED IMPRISONMENT: Putting persons in jail, or otherwise punishing them, solely for their political or religious views;
SEXISM: Treating people unequally (and harmfully) in virtue of their gender;
RACISM: Treating people unequally (and harmfully) in virtue of their race or ethnicity;
MURDER: The pre-meditated killing of people for revenge, pleasure, or to gain advantage for oneself;
ASSAULT: Attacking an innocent person with intent to cause grievous bodily harm;
RAPE: Forcing an unwilling person to have intercourse;
FRAUD: Intentional deception to cause someone to give up property or some right;
DECEIT: Representing something as true which one knows to be false in order to gain a selfish end harmful to another;
INTIMIDATION: Forcing a person to act against his interest or deter from acting in his interest by threats or acts of violence.