Needs, Choices and the Basics. Introduction: Fundamental Rights

Hypothesis: All Humans born have instant and unappealable fundamental rights.

As Humans we are all unified in our needs. That is to say, we all need the same necessities to survive and live healthy lives. There are fundamental aspects connected to the act of existing as a human that bind us together: clean and healthy sustenance, shelter, adequate medical care, mutual companionship, proportionate justice, creation of progeny and self protection are universal and the most basic of rights of all Humans. In the world of today, no person should be without any of these rights.

These rights should be considered absolute and without appeal, as agreed upon. However, they should be considered evolving rights that attempt to equate to our current understandings related to the human mind, social dynamics and scientific discovery.

Moving forward with this preposition, as an agreed upon fact, it should be obvious to an even moderately critical-thinking observer that to accept anything less than these, as the rights of all peoples, is not adequate to sustain a truly civil society of any style. It must be considered a gross injustice for any person to violate, directly or indirectly, these fundamental rights. To emphasize this please realize that a positively constructed society would not permit acts that counter this concept of fundamental rights.

In North America the sense of entitlement, profit chasing and the ‘me vs. them’ structure of pyramidal power systems is completely at odds with the ideals of Fundamental Rights for All Humans.

Beginning this fall I’ll post a series of articles giving my views and opinions about this idea as it is related to evolving Humanism.