Human Rights:

Cazort.net believes in certain inalienable human rights.

What's special about this list?

The United Nations maintains a Universal Declaration of Human Rights; our list is inspired by the UN, but is intended to be more universal. The UN's list relies on certain assumptions about the structure of society, and we believe that its list of rights does not adequately address every concern that it is intended to address. As humans do not live in isolation, we also believe that some rights can only be adequately expressed as "community" rights.

Individual Rights:

These rights are inalienable: they cannot be given up voluntarily. However, each right exists only to the extent that one is not infringing upon the rights of others. For example, if one commits violence against others, one could be incarcerated and thus lose the right to freely move about in society in order to protect others against violence, but as a prisoner, one would still have a right for food and shelter as well as protection from violence and harassment.

• Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being, including food, clothing, housing, and more. All people should have access to a healthy, adequate food supply, and enough shelter to live in a safe and healthy way.
• Everyone has the right to be protected from violence and harassment, whether the perpetrator is their government, criminals, family members, or others, and whether the violence or harassment is with or without cause.
• Everyone has the right to freely communicate their own ideas and the ideas of others in private and in public, in speech, writing, and other mediums.
• Everyone has the right to privacy with any consenting individuals, including any form of communication without the observation of others.
• Everyone has the right to freedom of movement, including movement within their country, and ability to leave and return to their country.
• Everyone has the right to have their own work and their own ideas attributed to them, and not to others, and also the right to not have attributed to them any ideas or work that is not theirs.
• Everyone has a right to have sufficient access to money (or whatever medium is necessary to participate in the economic system) to ensure an adequate standard of living according to their basic human rights is a fundamental human right. Access to interest-bearing "credit" does not constitute an adequate medium. This access can be through work, but the access must be available to all people.
• All people should have access to quality education so that all will have acces to literacy, basic mathematical skills, and knowledge of science, and the history and culture of their country and others.
• Everyone has the right to express dissent within their government and without retaliation or threat of retaliation.
• Freedom of Religion - All people should have the freedom to express their religious beliefs in the public arena as well as in the economy. We believe that freedom of religion encompasses both traditional religions as well as other belief systems that may not be identified as such, but still impart a sense of meaning and purpose in peoples' lives. Freedom of religion encompasses the freedom to work in a way in accordance with ones' religion. A purely secular economy can violate peoples' freedom of religion because it can require them to work in ways contrary to their religious beliefs just to support themselves.

When Rights are Violated:

Violation of the rights of another is the basis of a criminal act, and can result in a restriction of your rights to the extent of protecting the rights of others.

Community Rights:

• Any community has the right to be self-sufficient: that is, any community that is not using resources from other communities cannot have resources taken involuntarily from it by these communities, for example, through taxation or other forms of appropriation, and communities shall not be coerced into using external resources.
• All communities have the right to a supply of money or whatever medium exists in the economic system, in proportion to the number of residents of the community, regardless of any other factors, including but not limited to age, resource utilization, or economic status.

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