how can we make our life happy and prosperous by respecting Human Rights ? explain
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The biggest challenge is understanding human rights. Once understood, happiness and prosperity follows. I’ll try to concisely outline those rights, and then a quick analysis of how happiness and prosperity follow. Please keep in mind that this is the ideal we strive for and, I’m pretty sure, does not exist on the planet today.
Right #1: Your Right To Your Life
First and foremost, your life is your own. You may do with it whatever you wish. Without it, the whole discussion is moot. The alternative, that your life, entirely or even to some extent, is entitled to someone else is called slavery.
Right #2: Your Right To Freedom
In order to maintain right #1, you need to be free to do so. By contrast, if you are chained to a post, it’s unlikely you’re going to go far.
Right #3: Your Right To Property
Now that you have a life, and are free to move around to maintain it, you’ll need stuff to do so. Thus you should have the right to retain any shelter, clothing, food, etc. that you acquire and use.
Right #4: Your Right To Consent
This is the one that wraps up society, your right to accept or refuse trade in goods or services with others. This is the control of your rights with respect to others. This includes the ability to have them protected or submit them in whole or in part, for as long as you wish. The alternative is people not respecting those rights and stealing your property, your freedom, or even you life.
These four rights axiomatically define us as rational humans. They follow from each other providing a model for society. So how does it provide for our happiness and prosperity?
Happiness and Prosperity
What is happiness? Let’s say happiness is when you are in control of your life. Which is to say, you set expectations for your life and they are met entirely by your actions. The opposite, fear, is when you don’t know what is around the corner, especially if it threatens the object of any of your rights (your self, your freedom, your property, your relationships). By having a system that protects those rights universally and consistently we can live very happily knowing that everything we do, without violating these rights of others and thus not having our own violated, can be productive and improve our livelihood.
What about prosperity? I think prosperity, in this context, is that of being successful; maintaining happiness. Success is the accomplishment of one’s goals. In a society based on these Four Rights, there are no constraints on productivity. Working with others to mutual benefit is cooked right into the recipe so it should lift all to a level of prosperity only governed by their own creativity and ambition. There are literally no constraints beyond physical limitations of their environment. And even then, there’s nothing stopping them from expanding their environment.
So I think it follows that when true, individual-respecting rights are followed, happiness and prosperity are a by-product available to the extent that people wish to attain them.
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