Monday, February 9, 2009

Human Rights

In order to give you all the opportunity to respond to my blog, I'll keep presenting things for a short while here at the start of this project to compel a written reaction to the post. This is as much about you as it is about the blog. So today I'll list what could be a list of human rights for which all laws, in a utopia of sorts, would protect. After all, isn't declaring that people have rights just a signal for your judicial system to create laws to protect those rights? Well here is my list:
1. Every person has the right to not be owned by anyone else.
2. Every person has the right to freedom of speech.
3. Every person has the right to punish as person for harming them.
4. Every person has the right to the opportunity to private property.
5. Every person has the right to not have their life taken without necessity.
6A. Every person has the right to choose how their life will be lived.
6B. Every person does not have the right to choose how their life will end.
7. Every person has the right to presumed innocence in the court of law.
8A. Every living thing has the right to not be harmed unless a necessity of survival.
8B. Every person has the right to harm a species that is not as evolved as him if it is a threat to his survival or that of family, friends, property, ect...
8C. Every person has the right to kill any species not as evolved as him for game after approval from government.
9. Every person has the right to privacy on their own property unless privacy is used in violation of other people's rights.
10. Every person has the right to be active in their government.