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