Human Rights are Human Duties
by E. Moosbrugger
https://creationaltruth.org/FIGU/Overpopulation/Humaneness/Human-Rights-are-Human-Duties
If one addresses the problem of overpopulation, then it can be looked at from different sides. From whichever perspective one illuminates the human crowds but also, they show themselves one way or another almost inseparable difficulties. If the human being wants to get this in the grasp, then he/she must command the guinea pig-like proliferation to stop. This is an immutable fact, that one day must be accepted by all human beings. In this writing however should go no further into the overpopulation specifically, but rather on the human rights and what in their keeping would be done.
With the human rights it does not only act itself around rights, but also around duties, which with preference is overlooked. Duties are often connected with a 'must', which the human beings all too much would like to evade. The perception even circulates in several heads, that the human beings indeed would have an unrestricted claim on human rights, however they want to know nothing of the associated duties. Human duties smell for their nose after responsibility and work, that they are not prepared for, to bear and take over. They stand towards those, who put themselves in place with whole power for the preservation of the human rights and therewith their human duties to follow. For these activities has been acknowledged among others is Amnesty International.
The general statement of the human rights was proclaimed on 10 December 1948 by the general assembly of the United Nations. In the preamble it is calls: … Since a collective understanding about these rights and freedoms are of greatest importance for the complete fulfillment of this obligation, the general assembly proclaims the present 'General Statement of the Human Rights' as the collective ideal of all people and nations…
The text is subdivided into 29 articles, whereby, 28 deal with the fundamental rights and the basic duties. For further explanation it suffices but completely, when I single out the first article.
“Article 1: Freedom, equality, brotherliness
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are gifted with rationality and conscience and should behave towards each other in the spirit of the brotherliness.”
Every human being has a right thereon, to form his/her life in the form, as it corresponds to his/her innermost part of Wesen (the inner core nature). He/She should be free, in order to give his/her ideas and thoughts shape. This is his/her right as a human being. Since however everything is to be considered from two sides, stop the inner and outer freedom there, where other life-forms will be curtailed or robbed of their freedom. Thereby it plays no role, whether it acts itself around fauna and flora or around human beings. The duty demands from every human being to examine, whether he/she with his/her desired fulfillment e.g. limits or impairs others in their freedom. Should this be the case, then intellect and rationality is sought, with their assistance the human being searches after other ways, in order to bring his/her fulfillment to fruition. If he/she however has no experience regarding his/her found way, then inevitable mistakes occur to him/her, followed by of a corresponding damage. Further contemplation will to him however call attention to the fallibility of his/her thoughts, whereby he/she can correct the damage.
Every human being has the right, to make mistakes; it applies however also to the duty, itself with him/her to study carefully, in order to learn and therefrom to draw a usefulness. Thereby grow intellect and rationality; the human being becomes more knowing and more wise.
Equally it is human duty, to take on every individual towards a neutral-positive attitude, in order to get to know him/her in his/her form and in his/her Wesen. That doesn't however mean, to approve of everything, which comes to expression by a human being. For example Ausartung of every form must be put at the pillory and the fallible human being be made conscious, therewith he/she after appropriate cognition can change his/her reprehensible thoughts and actions.
Human duty entails also, that the human being not simply live in the day, but rather that he/she demands accountability from him/herself. He/She wants namely to enjoy his/her freedom and spend no sleepless nights, because he/she must examine him/herself better, whereon he/she admits him/herself and wherewith he/she occupies him/herself.
There are however also situations in the life, where one must curtail another human being in his/her freedom. The life does not stand silently in one place, but rather it is subject to a continuous becoming and passing. An unstoppable cycle, in that itself everything moves and develops, when also only in minute steps, that at first attempt usually will not be recognized. A human being or a plant e.g. is one then curtailed in its free unfolding, when it threatens to get out of control. With a plant this is completely understandable, only the human being lets him/herself not thus gladly be curtailed in his/her freedom. Above all abuses he/she his/her freedom, in order to satisfy lust for might, greed, pathological craving, vice and other Ausartungen, that as a rule always comes up at the cost of the freedom of others.
True freedom, that never more is lost, is an inner freedom. For this the human being must learn, to guide his/her thoughts in pathways, that guarantees this freedom to him/her; given facts however must be recognized, and wishes may never overflow in unrealistic framework. A captive one e.g. can also then be free, when he/she with his/her fate him/herself accepts and provides his/her thoughts new nourishment, while he/she expands and learns his/her knowledge.
Then a great step to freedom is done, when the equality of all human beings is recognized. All human beings are equal, whereby gender, skin color, race, religious affiliation, intelligence, culture, etc. are completely unimportant. The same task applies to all, to develop him/herself into the true human beings with the associated rights and duties. There is no single human being on the entire world, that would not have strengths and inabilities, therefore positive and negative characteristics. Only the starting conditions in the life are of varied nature, depending upon social and economic circumstances. The task in turn is the same for all human beings, namely to make something senseful out of the given facilities and the new possibilities. This corresponds to the right and the duty of life.
The varied starting possibilities are more undeniable. However it lies in the human beings themselves, to improve or always further to worsen this. The fundamental disastrous thing that itself continuously worsens living conditions on the Earth is and remains the overpopulation, also when this is always again further denied. Thereby may however not only the countries of the second and third world be looked at, but rather the worldwide existing overpopulation must be seen.
All have a right to equality. Therefore also the human beings of the poor countries who would like to live in good social circumstances with more comfort. If one even imagines oneself: of the 6.3 thousand-million human beings in the year 1996, 2/3 (66%) would possess a car. More unthinkable, however the equality demands this right for each. Thus we can see, that herein not only a right, but rather also a duty exists, to handle everything within rational framework. However because rationality hardly prevails and also only little intellect among the human beings, everything must escalate into the excess and ausarten. Not until then dawns recognition: Thus it is not! Good morning, humanity, can one then finally say.
'If you do not want to be my brother, then I strike you in the head!' Many human beings on this world act according to this slogan. This has nothing to do with brotherliness, on the contrary; it breeds, among other things, of pure egoism, pure revenge, vigilantism and a considerable portion of imperiousness. True brotherliness is based therein, on the respect of the human beings as human beings. Respect and help is entitled to him/her, when he/she his/her need and this help is worthy/dignified. However precisely on this point the human rights will be trampled underfoot, because the wrong humanity practiced on our world frighteningly blossoms.
Through wrongly understood brotherliness will human beings practice thousand-million-fold in dependences, because one nourishes and feeds them through hunger assistance, rather than let them die in calm and dignity. Thereby they lose their autonomy, which is why they also no longer can help themselves. We can regarding this recognize in nature a correct behavior. We human beings should ourselves not shy away from imitating it, because the nature is an immense instructor.
However this is only a misbehavior where brotherliness is concerned. Another is the lax watching with brutal and unhuman contentions. Here the brotherliness demands the gewaltsames intervention, so that suffering and misery will be prevented. A conflict must be prevented and be choked in the seed. One also eliminates weeds immediately and does not let anything overrun. Subsequently the conflicting parties must become separated and taught, therewith their wrong thinking, that after all has led to the conflict, recognize and through new and right thinking is corrected. This solely guarantees a definitive transformation in the course of time. As a rule years and decades pass until the stability of such a developmental change. In this time old conflicts always again can flare up, which is why greatest watchfulness is declared. Also here we see the two opposite poles. On the one side the right to intervene, on the other the duty, to guide the beginning to the end. Also concerning brotherliness the overpopulation causes great problems, because through excess of human beings everything becomes obscure, inextricable and gets out of control.
Already the human beings had the French revolution that advocated the goods of thoughts of freedom, equality and brotherliness. However it was completely overlooked, that the human being in his/her development was still not really ripe enough, in order for this high claim to be deserved. These goods of thoughts are not to be brought to fruition from one day to the next, although it smolders as a deep desire in the human beings. The history has proven this fact. Also today we are for miles removed from the realization of this fulfillment, although the technical-material development has made monstrous progress; the human-ethic however is no better interpreted than at the time of the French revolution. Nevertheless the modern human being wrapped in a cloak of fine words of the civilization has him/herself avoided, whereby one does not recognize the violations of human rights always at first attempt. In the technical realm on the other hand the developments stride ahead with seven-mile boot strides, thus that the normal citizen no more can keep in step. Thereby a scientific-technological elite trains itself, who begin to manipulate the mass of people as desired.
The technical achievements have rolled over the human beings in their consciousness (spiritual) development. Thus values have been created and worked out, that the human beings on the one hand alleviate the material life, which however on the other hand threaten him/her, because each technical innovation as a rule has been abused for negative purposes. With these machinations the human rights then remain in the distance.
In a world, which is so overpopulated and aligned on purely material progress, the consciousness-based (spiritual) development of the human beings withers always more. Despite all technical achievements he/she increasingly turns into zombies. The new mediums, specifically the television program makers, serve to him/her a rich menu, that by the push of a button appears on the screen. He/She need not think about, but rather he/she can only swallow, what the diverse offer serves to him/her. On wholesomeness is thereby as a rule not at all valued; what counts is tension, attraction, horror, shootouts, however also wrong pity, feeling-weakness and any nonsense and rubbish in so-called entertainment. In the programming less value is on education instead as on high ratings. The common people swallow also this fact and let themselves be furthermore lulled in. To which strain themselves, when everything is served. The consciousness however and the language wither always more. This is not only with the television programming, but rather also to observe with newspapers and magazines. A high-brow literature is by the majority of humankind no longer intellectual. The human being must however form him/herself, therewith he/she can develop virtues, which guarantees to him/her the fulfillment of the human rights; virtues such as honesty, steadfastness, temperance, industriousness, cautiousness, discretion and benevolence. He/She must therefore further him/herself, therewith his/her thoughts find new pathways.
The goods of thoughts of individuals as well as of the entire humankind is however responsible for the further evolutionary progress. The more human beings therefore who live on a planet, so much the greater sinks the overall level of the literacy, because the amount is aligned on material consumption and a comfortable life. High values form in general without urging, in order to therewith occupy him/herself longer. Therefore the goods of thoughts of the majority of people wither to primitive, destructive values, that as swinging waves negatively influence everything.
These days (end of the 20-century) one must only once look into the newspapers: murder, acts of war, drug addiction, sectarian murders and mass murders, physical and psychical Gewalts, brawls and other acts of violence belong to the agenda. Starting in ex-Yugoslavia, where all human rights were stomped into the ground in most gruesome kind and wise, then felonious atomic bomb tests, environmental contaminations and much more, up to acts of Gewalt and gruesome fate of individuals. The world population however looks on uninterested or unconscious and helpless.
These very negative events, that themselves as thought- and feeling-swinging waves spread out over the entire world, to affect the entire life on the Earth. Specifically unstable human beings are influenced by these negative exposures. Subsequently twisted by it, run amok; and no human being knows actually why, because they are not in the position, to recognize and understand the correlations.
The flapping of wings of a butterfly is able the entire swinging wave configuration of the entire planet influence/affect and only/single negative or positive thoughts of human beings entire humanity and entire fauna and flora.
When one considers this fact, then one can easily imagine him/herself, how human rights violations themselves have a worldwide effect. Sometimes it appears, as if one can feel and hear the cries and torments of all tortured and tormented human beings.
If the human rights on the Earth and among the human beings itself are to permanently be achieved, then a worldwide consciousness-alteration of humanity must be strived for and realized. Actually it acts itself around a consciousness reformation, because the false things must first be recognized, in order to eliminate them and subsequently to replace with new goods of thoughts. Unfortunately the old things do not simply disappear after appropriate cognition, but rather it remains to pass as knowledge and can only through new, good and healthy goods of thoughts be displaced and obliterated. Thereby it falls into oblivion. Itself always again thereon to remember, gives evidence of absolute foolishness, because it lets the old things freshly revive, and to start from the beginning all living-experiences and that sustained in the good as in the evil.
For enforcing and complying with the human rights a general transformation of the thinking is required. This should be a direction of thinking, which has validity for all human beings, that can be accepted and understood by everyone. Human rights can themselves only be achieved, when the international community itself focuses on a collective fulfillment. This collective fulfillment could e.g. therein insist, that we human beings orientate ourselves on the laws of nature, in order to master our existence. In nature we can recognize daily, how we should ourselves react. We see, where it is intact or where damages occur; whereby almost all Ausartungen are human beings' machinations.
If all human beings would act together, then restricting boundary playing could be prevailed over. If however only a few themselves strive around this task, then these few struggle against windmills. Struggling nevertheless is human duty, therewith the human rights finds hearing in all ears and comes to the application. Many comprehend and understand human rights violations, because they are carried daily through the mediums such as television etc. into the living room. The spectators are however not directly affected by the horror of the wars, by violations, murders, bloody contentions and other Ausartungen or by the overpopulation.
Thus it is understandable, that they make no further thoughts themselves, in order to find an appropriate solution for the horrors of this world. Many would also be absolutely overstrained with this work. That must be entirely clearly determined. Nevertheless the behavior of those is incomprehensible and not excusable, that through one's own consideration come to fundamental cognition and solutions and nevertheless do nothing. They would know, what would be to do, however they duck themselves out of futile causes, as e.g. out of convenience and cowardice, before the responsibility, that one has to bear every human being within the framework of his/her possibilities. This responsibility applies not only for the one's own life, but rather equally for the life of the next ones and the ones after the next ones. The excuse, which I can change as an individual, conceived only from miserable cowardice and merciless anxiety, which the one's own skin damage could be inflicted. The causes for this are among other things to be found in a wrongly-understood humanism as well as in a boundless weakening. The weakening comes about through a wrong thinking, which also increasingly occurs through environmental pollution occurs and makes the human beings always less strong. Pains e.g. simply do not want to be endured. Already with a simple dental treatment a numbing syringe is given to the patient on request. However the human being does not train his consciousness, therewith he/she e.g. can endure pains within appropriate framework, then he/she misses a good opportunity, in order to become inner great.
Where there is no action, instead find always again talks at the green (negotiation) table (bureaucratic ivory tower). The diplomacy takes its course. What comes out in the course of this, was and is precisely more visible in ex-Yugoslavia, because despite all the diplomatic negotiations the country does not find itself in a real peaceful state. The illusion of the UN becomes always more ridiculous, because they do not manage it, to cease on the Earth wars and human rights violations. To this a very wise man (Ptaah) told analogously first in the 90's: “One cannot with doves fight against eagles.”
It is also human duty, to find the right means in each case, in order to guide a matter onto the way of success-bringing. The right means let itself however only become crystalized through rationality and intellect as well as through facts and truth-cognition. And precisely on these points it fails with the individuals as with all international communities and before all things with the responsible ones in politics, economy and religion. Because only few of the responsible ones enter for the keeping of the human rights; to keep entirely silent of it, that they would fulfill their human duty in right form. Strictly speaking it goes to them only in order for personal claims for might, with those above all bigwigs and 'bigshots' more or less flirt. It is all the more sad as a consequence, when individuals, who recognize the facts, truths and correlations, jump on the bandwagon wrapped in a cloak of fine words or simply resign, because they are of the irrational view, that all efforts made indeed help nothing. If in all times thus would have be meant, and it never would have been given human beings, that despite suffering, hardship and miseries and without consideration for personal losses their ideals would have lived for, then still today would be in much more of a sorry state.
Thus should here be once again emphasized: It is human duty, for the right of recognition in the framework of the personal possibilities to enter and to fight for its enforcement. Every human being applies this duty in double-fold form:
1. Towards oneself; thus the duty of self-education in self-responsibility.
2. Towards the fellow human being as overall humanity as well as the individuals.
The cognition of the human rights and human duties begins in the head. Only when a human being thinks about these tasks, does he/she come to corresponding results. That means, that everyone must contemplate about everything, that happens to him/her, that he/she encounters and that he/she is confronted with, in order to draw for him/herself important conclusions and to gain cognition. Here the developmental change fulfills itself for the real being a human being in the real and true sense, because only the one's own-worked out goods of thoughts help the human beings in stability and self-assertion. However here lies also the disastrous things of all religions, who proclaim, that the human beings must only believe, for everything else God, Allah, Shiva or whatever it is otherwise called, will provide. It is more undeniable, that a greater power, that truthly is called the Creation, closes ranks with everything and gives life to everything. This however is an absolutely neutral power, which in itself in equal parts the factors positive and negative unite in equalizedness. How the human beings uses this power however, lies entirely alone in his/her one's own choosing. First and foremost he/she is responsible for his/her ideas and thoughts, how he/she uses and forms everything.
If we take as example a free field: A farmer sits at the edge of his lying dormant farmland and looks at this. He asks himself, what can he do with it and waits on an inspiration. After quite some time contemplating he sees a great garden before himself. Thought, done. He plows the meager land, works on and improves the earth, puts patches in and sows the various seeds. The land requires however an intensive treatment and cultivation, therewith the coming up seed plentifully bears fruits. The farmer however is lazy and only does the most necessary, the harvest will then correspondingly fail.
There is however still another possibility, why the harvest may be sparse; namely then, if the soil despite intensive treatment simply yields nothing, because it is infertile. In this case first the land would have to be made fertile, so that the fruit can grow and prosper.
If one transfers this second example also to the human beings, then the unfruitfulness is to be compared with the wrong thinking. If thoughts are worked out on wrong benchmarks, models and perceptions, no fruit can grow. The soil is suitable for nothing.
So that the human being can come to his/her rights and pursue his/her duties, he/she must correct his/her wrong and ailing thought-building. This is a most extremely lengthy and painstaking work, because the developmental change cannot be coerced, but rather only will be fulfilled through the cognition of the truth. However it requires persistence, endurance and perseverance.
English translation from the original German text by Patrick McKnight and may contain errors - 1-July-2016
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