 19 Aug 2006 @ 12:02, by swanny
August 19,2006
Canada, Earth
Saturday
PLANETARY RIGHTS
Focus:
In this deliberation, let examine the notion of rights and more specifically
whether perhaps in conjunction with humans and other inhabitents, that planets
themselves may have inherent rights.
Question:
Do planets have rights?
Discussion:
Do planets have rights? Well where do rights arise or derive from?
Rights probably derive from the notions of logic and reason and law
and civilization. These are inherent human precepts yet humans as well
have notions of spirit and God and such notions as well can lend them
selves to such things. Taking the human or God given lead then let
us examine what humans consider to be "natural" rights.
Natural Rights:
1. The right to life
2. The right to liberty
3. The right to privacy
and
4. The right to a good repution.
These rights are taken from the 1990 A.D. USA legal documentation. As such they
are perhaps one but a modern or fairly civilized reference to what humans
in general refer to as the natural rights. The intention perhaps was that
these constitute the "natural rights" of humans, yet by extension as a
civilized, democratic and fair mediatitor, let us for arguements sake
assume that they apply to most living things.
The Gaia Concept
The Gaia concept puts forth that the planet Earth to varying degrees
is a self regulating and somewhat sentinent being or life form. As such
then by extrapolation we could summarily insist that it has its "natural
rights" as well. Whether these rights are the same or take the same "form"
as humans rights is perhaps an unknown but if this sentinence be the case
then Gaia by extension would have the same natural rights of what humans
and to go further then might have the same rights that we humans confer to
a "host."
Conclusion:
Therefore as well as have its natural rights, Gaia thusly might have
the legal rights we humans confer to a host. What then are "host rights?"
Well that is perhaps another question and discussion.
A. G. Jonas
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