The Code of the street (n.) is law written by people the law will not protect.
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Norm of universal respect (n.) is the principle in discourse ethics that every rational speaker deserves equal standing to take part in moral discussion.
A Norm of universal respect (n.) is the idea that every speaking, rational creature has equal right to participate in the conversation.
Reciprocity (n.) is what experience makes of life, mine and thine fairly divided, and a life spent only on it is petty whether it handles millions or pennies.
Reciprocity (n.) terrified archaic peoples for good reason: whenever it broke through the screen of custom, it became runaway competition and then mutual violence.
Reciprocity (n.) is only ever perfect at the extremes — total violence or total nonviolence — and humanity has managed only the first.
Reciprocity (n.) turned evil gets worse by its own logic: half of the combatants think justice is done because they are avenged, and the other half strike back to avenge themselves.