Causal Humanism

CausalHumanism.org: Understanding causes. Designing better responses.
CHANGE: Causal Humanism for Accountability, Networked Growth & Equity

What It Is:

• Causal Humanism is a secular, non-religious nonprofit movement grounded in an evidence-based understanding of human behavior.
• It advances a causality-first philosophy that asks a simple question:

"If behavior is caused, how should that change the way we treat one another?"

• Causal Humanism explores the implications of this question across personal relationships, social norms, and institutions—especially where harm, accountability, and change are concerned.

What It Is Not:

• Not fatalism or resignation
  Understanding causes enables intervention; it does not deny the possibility of change.
• Not moral permissiveness
  Harm still matters. Accountability is reframed, not abandoned.
• Not self-help optimism
  Change is not willed into existence; it is made rational through structure, tools, and incentives.
• Not a church or faith community
  Causal Humanism is secular and does not rely on supernatural beliefs or moral authority.

Human behavior does not appear from nowhere. It emerges from biology, experience, incentives, stress, trauma, and environment. Yet our default responses—shame, blame, moral outrage, and punishment—often ignore those causes and reliably make things worse.

This group is an incubator for developing better responses to human behavior, from everyday conflict to the justice system. Courts, workplaces, schools, families, online spaces, and public policy all suffer when we confuse emotional satisfaction with effective accountability.

We are not interested in excusing harm or denying responsibility. Accountability matters. So do victims. What we reject is the illusion that treating people as morally uncaused agents produces better outcomes.

Topics we explore include:

• How causal understanding changes conflict resolution and interpersonal responsibility
• Why shame and outrage feel good but fail as tools for behavior change
• What accountability looks like when the goal is learning, repair, and prevention
• How these principles scale from personal interactions to courts, rehab, and lawmaking
• How to frame these ideas so they can be adopted in real institutions, not just discussed

Meetups may include structured discussion, real-world case analysis, policy design, and collaborative work on language and frameworks that survive practical use.

This group is for people who care less about assigning moral credit or blame—and more about reducing harm, improving outcomes, and designing systems that actually work.