Is Truth The Fundamental Human Right? Yes! No Other “Right” Can Exist Without It!
Imagine this: a land where the authorities expect females to get their naughty bits mutilated a bit, and would then have only half the rights of men, a land where boys would have their ears cut into pointed triangles, doberman style… The authorities would explain that such is their religion. Should that culture be respected? If not, why not?
In “human rights” there are two bits:”human” and “rights”. Both are naughty. One has to define “human” and define what a “right” is. Well a “right” is what comes straight out of human nature (that’s why it’s “right” [1]). Naughty bits and non-mutilated ears are all out of human nature. To pretend otherwise is a lie. The argument that mutilations cause pain doesn’t have to be considered.
Moreover, in the age of transhumanism, what “human” is… has to be reasserted [0].
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights rests on undefined terms, such as “the right to peaceful assembly”. Is it peaceful when women assemble to show their heads in a country where it is unlawful to show adult female heads?
Or the UN says “freedom of religion” is a human right. What about religions with human sacrifices? Rome said they had no rights.
How does one find out what is “peaceful”? Truth, reality are the answers.
Philosophers have considered “rights” as axioms, basically. The justification of axioms, in mathematics, is what they allow us to do: in mathematics, the ends justify the means…
For example, one needed a number the square of which was minus one… because it enabled us to make some computations. So why not do as if it existed [2]? This is how so-called “imaginary numbers” were intorduced in the Sixteenth Century… They baffled and horrified for a long time, but actually light can’t do without them. So “imaginary numbers” are plain to see… anytime one sees…
In math, the ends justify the means, until the means become themselves new beginings.
And so it is with humanity. The bottom line, in the end, is that humanity will do what it takes, whatever it takes, to survive. As far as the only creator there is, evolution, this meta behavior, whatever it takes, is beyond any need to justify it, being the essence of evolution, that is, the creator, itself. This reasoning will hold on any planet, any civilization, however extraterrestrial…
[From the strange and beautiful planet I am from… Yes, perception may vary, thus so will truth. But truth is what’s left after all errors have been found.]
So what are the rights of humanity facing extinction? A right could be interpreted as a preferred behavior. For example, children suffering from bombardment have a right to live… But that only means that, say, an armed force pursuing a just war will try its best to prevent children from dying… but without stopping the bombardment which kills the children.
To mitigate the death of children in a just war, one needs the truth, reality, finding out where the children are and getting them out of harm’s way… So preferred behaviors, our generalization of rights, can be ascertained only through reality, truth.
Conversely violating truth and reality is generally the engine of abuse. For example, Puin has an upside down view of history, where the Kremlin creates Kyiv.. And Ukraine was created as a borderland of Russia.
So no truth, no reality, no rights.
The worst problem with the Nazis is not that they were “bad”. People tend to act badly because they feel they are “good”, or “justified”. No, the most fundamental problem with the Nazis is that they were hallucinating. In particular their “racial” theories made no sense (many of the top Nazis had demonstrable Jewish envy [3]… One envies only what is superior. So why trying to claim the Jews were inferior
Straight as an arrow: humanity seeks truth, must seek the truth and reality, to have any right at all. Practical conclusion? Any ideology trying to murder truth and reality stands ready to violate all and any right. In particular any religion based on a superstition, especilly a violent one, or an ideology based on the will to deny truth, for example by advocating dictatorship, or, even worse, plutocracy.
Want rights? Go straight to the truth!
Patrice Ayme
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[0] Redefining humanity philosophically is necessary… because it has already been redefined technologically, ever since magic mushrooms have been used, hundreds of thousands of years before alcohol was invented… Now we are in the age of neural links… The essence of the genus Homo is intelligence, what one needs to ascertain truths. Welcome EI, Essential Intelligence, as the essence of humanity… To immerse AI and AC…
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[1] Be it in German, Frisian, Irish, all over “right”, straight and law all emanate from the same PIE root *reg- “move in a straight line,” also “to rule, to lead straight, to put right” (source also of Greek orektos “stretched out, upright;” Latin rectus “straight, right;” Old Persian rasta- “straight; right,”
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[2] A geometric justification was found by Argand around 1800 CE. Two centuries later it became clear to me that all the complex numbers do is to describe light (and its polarization, that’s where the square root of -1 appears….
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[3] Goebbels was desperately in love with a Jewish girk, who rejected him. Hitler may have been Jewish by his own criterion (but of course he reserved himself the right to arianize anyone…). Many other top Nazis ressembled the caricatures they made a of Jews… And then the top Nazi magazine represented a perfect arian baby who turned utto have been Jewish… It was a running joke in Nazi Germany that the top Nazis looked pretty much like the degenerates they wanted to extinguished…
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