In order to justify the outlines of the previous post, it is necessary to establish this basic premise:
All things have a right to be.
Which is to say that the basic requirements for existence should not be denied. In a human being this would mean air, water, food, and the space to secure these things. This is, in fact, the same list of needs for all living things to some degree.
( One might argue that a fish does not require air, but in fact the oceans and waterways are part of a greater system that is dependent on the existence of air. This is true even for micro organic life in that they too are part of a larger system.)
Once we establish that all human beings have in common, a right to air, water, food and the space to use them we can then proceed to the idea that any action that denies these essential rights for another, cannot be an inherent right. All laws and conventions should thus precipitate from this ideal.
This is not to say that it is the responsibility of society to provide these things for each individual. It is to say that it is the responsibility of person not to corrupt another beings access to these essentials, and possibly, it is society's role to protect individual access to these common rights.
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