The declaration of individual rights, interdependence and communal responsibility
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As an individual human being gifted with creative power I hereby declare that I am depending on the world we live in therefore I have like every other human being the right on an equal part of it's resources and in freedom I take on the responsibility to live up to this declaration.
Version 0.0.2 (Thank you Manfred)
As an individual human being, gifted with creative power, I hereby declare that I am depending on the world I live in as much as this world is depending on me, therefore I have the right to an equal part of it's resources (and not more), in freedom I take on the responsibility to care for this world and live up to this declaration.
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I invite you all to come up with rest of this declaration. The goal here is to create a document which enables individuals to work together on common ground in respect to every other human being and mother earth.
When accepted by enough people around the world and used as a basis on which we co-operate and co-create, it will be the foundation on which we can put the leverage to make the shift.
Take care in the formulation, for this to work we need mass acceptance, it should not object to religion of any kind (if such is possible), but you all understand this I believe.
As an individual human being gifted with creative power I hereby declare that I am depending on the world we live in therefore I have like every other human being the right on an equal part of it's resources and in freedom I take on the responsibility to live up to this declaration.
Version 0.0.2 (Thank you Manfred)
As an individual human being, gifted with creative power, I hereby declare that I am depending on the world I live in as much as this world is depending on me, therefore I have the right to an equal part of it's resources (and not more), in freedom I take on the responsibility to care for this world and live up to this declaration.
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I invite you all to come up with rest of this declaration. The goal here is to create a document which enables individuals to work together on common ground in respect to every other human being and mother earth.
When accepted by enough people around the world and used as a basis on which we co-operate and co-create, it will be the foundation on which we can put the leverage to make the shift.
Take care in the formulation, for this to work we need mass acceptance, it should not object to religion of any kind (if such is possible), but you all understand this I believe.
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Comment by Ferdinand Zanda on November 8, 2010 at 11:56am -
I like version 0.0.3 by the way!
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Comment by Ferdinand Zanda on November 8, 2010 at 11:55am
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Janos, the e-mail address I used was out of order. Just the other day it went working again. Al messages lost but new ones coming through. So I'm back again.
I see you answer some questions here, which I just asked you in another discussion (I still prefer dialogue), seems we agree. I'm still interested. And my deepest wish is that we could take it further. That I could devote most of my time to this, meaning making a living of it. I belief this is possible.
Another question, how do we realize this? How can we co-create a world constitution and make sure people (also in governments and companies) follow this? I understand this is the first step but I would like to take it further...
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Comment by Janos Abel on September 22, 2010 at 6:28pm
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This thread should go on. I have been on my usual globe trotting and rather neglected it. I hope that Ferdinand, Johannes and others are still around and interested.
The relevant issues are quite mundane and practical. The right to life implies the right to the means of life. That is,
a. In fully developed economies, where all natural resources are privately managed, the means is a guaranteed income to cover the basic necessities required for a simple but healthful life.
b. In developing countries access to sufficiend land (natural resource) for a man to maintain himself and dependants has to be granted.
The literature that details the social arrangements that would achieve such individual and communal well being is available on the internet. Google Henry George or Land Value Taxation for b.), and the writings of C. H. Douglas, Louis Kelso, James Albus for a.).
There is no excuse for ignorance of what is required to turn the earth into a relative Garden of Eden—relative to the messy social wilderness it is now.
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Version 0.0.3
As an individual human being, gifted with creative power, I hereby declare that I am depending on the world I live in as much as this world is depending on me, therefore I have the right to an equal part of it's nature-given resources --- or its monetary equivalent --- (and not more) plus my share of the industrial and cultural heritage bequeathed to our generation by past generations . In return for the freedom that that condition gives me, I take on the responsibility to care for this world and live up to this declaration.
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Well done Ferdinand! You are broaching the most fundamental issue.
I have been thinking for a long time that the relationship between the individual and the group/community/society deserves more interest and attention than it receives currently.
The "common ground" in my view is the fact that we all have the same basic needs for physical security (bio-necessities) and emotional (psychic/spiritual) fulfillment.
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