Lesson 24

 

 

   

 

BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS

Various experts have put the following basic human rights together which which they believe everyone should have integrated in to their system of beliefs, to increase their possibilities of behaving in a polite way. They are the rights that should regulate the interaction between people.

•  Right to be treated with respect and dignity

•  Right to maintain our dignity and respect although we can hurt others, as long as we do not violate other people's basic human rights.

•  Right to reject requests

•  Right to experiment and express our own feelings

•  Right to think before we act

•  Right to have opinions, to express them and to change them.

•  Right to ask for something (and to know that people can always say no)

•  Right to do less than is humanly possible.

•  Right to be independent

•  Right to decide what we do with our body, time and property.

•  Right to ask for information

•  Right to make mistakes, being responsable for them

•  Right to feel good about ourselves

•  Right to have our own needs and consider then as important as others.

•  Right to ask others to satisfy our needs

•  Right to deny satisfying other peoples needs.

•  Right to not behave in a socially skilled way

•  Right to be alone

•  Right to do anything as long as we don't vilate other people's rights.

•  Right not to respond to everything.

All of these rights, as they are shared by everyone, entail a series of obligations that basically are sumed up in the obligation to recognize and respect these rights in other people - It is true that sometimes when people communicate the conversation does not end with a postive balance for both partaking in the converstaion. Social competence should try and increase the possibilities of everyone succeding.