[OWK]

What if you can be assured of knowing that you could murder and steal and not suffer any consequences?

Irrelevant to the notion of a moral code.

In order to claim a moral imperative to act peacefully in accordance with my own will, I must rationally afford others the same ability.

Else my own moral claim is invalid.

[freedomson]

In order to claim a moral imperative to act peacefully in accordance with my own will, I must rationally afford others the same ability.

Easy enough for a scholar such as yourself to conclude but what about people of very low intelligence, or dullards and simpletons who possess moral imperatives without any reflection?

[AppyPappy]

In order to claim a moral imperative to act peacefully in accordance with my own will, I must rationally afford others the same ability. Else my own moral claim is invalid.

I don't see why you can't rationalize that your well-being trumps the well-being of all others.