foundations for sanity

[Zenaan Harkness]

(PS: Feel free to s/right/my_PC_term_of_choice/g !  Clarity good, whilst
sidetracking to the point of burying the conversation is subversive to
our collective and mutually beneficial intersts ! )


Perhaps this thread might be most useful for summarising/ sifting/
poignantizing the foundations we hold as important, and create separate
threads laterwards to discuss any particular foundation, once we have at
least a modicum of shared common agreement on the foundations.

Here follows a first rough draft for:


Foundations for Sanity

- collective responsibility:
We have a duty of care to one another and to nature, when doing anything
in life, to take reasonable steps to avoid and to minimise the
likelihood of harm to others and of harm to the environment.


- individual responsibility
We have a right to make all choices in respect of our own individual
safety, health, reproduction and living / survival in general.
Examples include the wearing of a bicycle helmet whilst cycling, wearing
seat belts, rock climbing and skydiving, and eating takeaway food three
times a day.


- respect for the freedom, inherent dignity, rights and sovereignty of
  every human
Although we may 'punish' or otherwise un-sanction our fellow society
dwellers who enage in activities in ways which fail to demonstrate
reasonable consideration for the safety of others, we shall limit our
collective enforcement to not include activities which infringe no soul
other than the individual soul himself.


- the right for individuals to associate, or to not associate, with
  other individuals, at any and all levels (local, 'state', 'national')


- the right to survive / live / thrive ("pursue happiness"), implying
  and including the following rights (add others as relevant of course):
  - the right to travel (work, find food, find a mate)
    (i.e. travel in ways commonly used to travel, e.g. drive a car)

  - the right to collect rainwater

  - the right to grow any plant, for any purpose which purpose does not
    endanger others nor infringe their individual sovereign rights

  - the right to keep and herd animals

  - the right to build dwellings and other buildings for our own chosen
    purposes

  - the right to think any thought (may become important in the near
    future)

  - the right to speak any words

  - the right to communicate on all political topics


* The naming and writing in any foundation statement, and any particular
  right or foundation, shall not be taken to limit the expression,
  understanding nor intent of any other stated foundation.
  (And here we descend into the murky world of qualifications, slippery
  slopes and endless argument... I do not know how to avoid this part.)