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The following
articles are presented as a basic framework for a fundamental rule set around
which a society turns. Although different cultures and different times create
their own priorities and significance, there are dynamics common to all humans
because the species shares a neurological system that underpins any subsequent
variation.
Actual documents
may differ across the borders, may emphasise this or that aspect, and in turn
the understating of some other may have been balanced through further detail.
Such hierarchy of values matters however when it comes to the daily life.
Progression locks and/or assumed freedoms can emerge, clouding not only the
concrete arena of societal events but also the perceived image of one's society
and what kind of possibilities it offers as well as its limitations. The present
articles also follow a hierarchy, with the upper always overriding the lower.
Human affairs
never reflect some elegant vision, regardless how well-meaning its designer
may have been. Instead they are often obtuse, convoluted, and opaque. Still,
there is a difference between arguing about what can be done and spending
energy on what cannot be done. Both set up their own flow of events, affecting
whatever they touch.
A charter of
this nature not only protects society from its members, it also protects the
members from society. Migrants for instance warrant an appropriate level of
scrutiny to safeguard the national interest, but at the same time require
the means to demonstrate their suitability regardless of their cultural or
religious characteristics. Australia will be one country in the forefront
of such necessities when rising sea levels force entire Pacific states to
relocate to other regions. A top-level document that states clearly the essential
principles of a nation is an anchor for the citizen and their multiple.
These articles
appeared originally in "Logic and Order in Society" under the pen
name Peter Wenger (published 1989, ISBN 0 7316 7059 0).
1. The ultimate
goal of any nation must be the mastery of its environment, whether that be
naturally given or artificially created.
For
this to be successfully accomplished the intellectual character of the community
has to be of a quality that supersedes the demands of present systems. Within
the privileges of every fully functioning citizen is incorporated the fundamental
duty to uphold this quality to his or her best ability and knowledge.
Before any rights
can be ascertained and given, the system must have the capacity to comply
with that demand. A top priority must therefore be the safeguarding of this
capacity.
No system can
survive a challenge to its nature without possessing the sufficient degree
of latency to assemble responses to its current state. Hence the capacity
of the system needs to include the potential for overcoming stasis.
2. It is the
inherent right of every human being to express freely any ideas or thoughts
deemed necessary. The judgment of this necessity must always be the property
of the originating person and must be defensible.
Flow of information
is essential for the health of a system, whatever the nature of data. Given
the possibility of high to low or low to high conceptual intersections, exceptions
can occur that require a withholding of information to particular other domains.
Since the judgment about applying an exception rests with the originator,
the informative value of an event entailing the creation, distribution, or
containment of information will be as high as possible.
3. Every citizen,
regardless of age and gender, has the right to happiness and the quest towards
it. This includes education; medical care; erotic fulfillment; meaningful
employment; and social care.
It is
the duty of every citizen to utilise these rights in such a manner that no-one
else's pursuit of happiness will be jeopardised objectively.
It is the nature
of humans to exercise their inherent optionality throughout their life. Curtail
any one aspect and substitutes will be sought outside a given framework (centering
on but not limited to the one designed to apply such constraint). The availability
of benefits to some at the cost of limiting them to others is akin to unchecked
censorship regarding information. A system suffers if the potential of its
domains should be restrained through the influence of others.
4. No endeavour
which seeks to influence and define people's lives may be enacted that has
as its basis and justification the dogma of any religion, culture, or tradition.
Similarly,
no activity pursued by any individual or individuals may be prohibited through
justifications derived from the realms of religion, culture, or tradition.
The larger the
system, the greater the need for functional synchronicity. While niches of
idiosyncratic dynamics can exist anywhere, the moment they interact denominatively
with the dynamics of other member domains (at whatever scale) such an interaction
becomes a constraint leading to degeneration. In terms of the dynamics between
two or more domains, it does not matter whether there is an act that seeks
to prescribe or proscribe, or whether there is a prescription or proscription
in relation to some act.
5. The governing
process of the nation must at all times be open and accessible to any citizen,
and the justification for access must be the sole property of the initiator.
It is the duty of every governing body to utilise the best available technology
in order to facilitate such access.
In line with
the previous paragraphs free flow of information must be maintained, including
the need for updating the necessary infrastructure.
6. The purpose
of the law is to enable any course of action to proceed harmoniously and efficiently.
Notwithstanding any previous paragraph only those laws are allowed that contain
the following structure: the objective goal; the relevant event; and the principles
underlying that event.
Any
law that seeks to achieve its purpose through discrimination against any human
characteristic is invalid. The only justifiable limiting measure is the degree
of capability in relation to the goal, the event, and/or its principles.
Similarly,
no person or group of persons is entitled to claim special privileges on behalf
of anyone due to race, religion, or cultural background.
Contrary to some
beliefs the law should serve the people, rather than the people serving the
law. Unless a law can demonstrate its utility under the parameters given above,
it runs the risk of being discriminatory and exclusively self-serving.
Further in line
with the above the purpose of a law is to provide a format to instantiate
a useful event under the auspices of the document. Apart from any safeguards
specific to the event there is no justification for any other constraint applied
to a person.
7. This text
is the binding document defining the basis for the existence of all individuals
who freely and unhindered subscribe to its tenets as the framework of their
lives, their intellectual and materialistic endeavours; and who have thus
established the geographical extent of their activities by virtue of territory
and boundaries.
Domains can be
defined and from a certain complexity onwards the domains define themselves.
Whether in terms of physical size or cognitive dynamics a system attains a
greater degree of justification if it has consciously chosen to assert its
existence.
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