Everyone’s rights

Everyone has a right to a peaceful home.

Everyone has a right to comport their self in public freely without harassment.

When these rights fail there are serious problems that occur at multiple levels all the way from the individual physiologic and psychologic to the familial, community, and beyond.

A human being is like a plant and it can either thrive and grow healthy and strong, or it can languish and struggle against abrasive and harmful elements.

Living things have the amazing capacity to adapt to even severe conditions but there is no way that such long-term disruption cannot cause damage. The result of such disruption is a fundamental change to the organism or to the community, culture, and entire society so that it becomes something different. The process of adaptation may involve loss and damage which cannot be measured.

Just as an individual can be damaged, so too can families, communities, and societies. Destructive patterns become engrained over the long term into the makeup of the individual, community, and society. Damaged individuals, communities, and societies become agents for the replication of modes that are fundamentally destructive.

It is time to turn things back. The beginning of that turn is the recognition of the most basic, fundamental rights.