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What are the minimum conditions for Quality of Life?

Here are a few that occurred to me. I hope you'll add to them....

To be born safely into the world, and as equal to all others
To be able to live in dignity
To have access to free education about the world as long as you want and need
To have a roof over your head and be able to sleep comfortably and refreshingly
To have access to healthy food and water
To have a right to your own opinions and the expressing of them
To have the right to know everything about decisions made on your behalf
To be cared for if you are sick, irrespective of means, throughout your life
To be encouraged and assisted to be a creative contributor to society and self
To be able to laugh each day
To have children
To be treated as an equal, with equal rights, whatever your gender, race, age, location, sexual preference, political or religious beliefs
To belong in a society that supports all these rights
To be protected by that society from external harm
To be allowed to die in dignity, and, if necessary, at a time and place of your own choosing.

Are there any maximum conditions to quality of life?

I can only think of one universal maximum: that your own happiness can never be built on the deprivation of others.

Many of these rights cost money. What we argue about is the best way to provide these universal rights.


You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 07:46:50 AM EST
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This should be a diary, not a comment to an anglo-disease news update.

It'd be nice if the battle were only against the right wingers, not half of the left on top of that — François in Paris
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 08:27:11 AM EST
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I can do that - but not till tonight.

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 08:42:39 AM EST
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Please do.
I for one would very much like to read and contribute to such a discussion.

Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.
by geezer in Paris (risico at wanadoo(flypoop)fr) on Wed Mar 12th, 2008 at 06:46:09 AM EST
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To have the right to know everything about decisions made on your behalf

about decisions that impact you... The employer does not decide on behalf of his employees, yet an employer juggling employees about is a problem.

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 09:14:03 AM EST
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Can we continue this at the new diary I put up? Quality of Life ,-)

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 11:19:27 AM EST
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"To have children"

In a world of resource depletion with 6 billion souls around, is this really something we can say it is a minimum right?

by t-------------- on Wed Mar 12th, 2008 at 08:13:38 AM EST
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And the alternative is....?

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Wed Mar 12th, 2008 at 09:24:02 AM EST
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