The Right to Self-Determination... Right to Be... Nations

In November 2012,

I wrote the Right to Be in relation to individual people--
everyone being free to be who they are.

But the Right to Be also means the right to simply exist.

And this means a nation, a religious group, a race or any other group

connected by a commonality.

A resolve to commit to non-judgment 

is a step that upholds the Right to Peace.

Upholding this right also means that we have to push back---

push back against extreme ideas or judgments, 

but not all extreme ideas, for some are creative,
only those that thrive on conflict and destruction,

those ideas that destroy the Right to Be.

Although I placed the Right to Be
into the constellation of Free Will Rights,
it really belongs in the constellation of Future Rights,
because as commenter JDF points out,
it is "a battle that will have to be fought for a long time."

The Right to Exist... Right to Be

During the first months of doing this blog, 

the idea of the Right to Not be Judged was considered.

But differentiation is part of human nature, as in, 

the ability to distinguish between different stimuli, 

the ability to discern, 

to recognize and understand differences,

as an observation, 

even possibly as strategy of survival/protection,

(as opposed to discriminatory biases towards living beings)

so I put aside the idea.

Recently, it resurfaced with the idea by a blog commenter of a Right to Remain...

and in that moment, the Right to Be was born.

I declare the Right to Be.

This means that one may be who they are

and/or who they wish to be, 

regardless of social norms and rules.

Thus, one may be silly or overweight or wrinkled

 or homeless or unemployed or bad hair day or whatever,

if one desires to be that way.

This is the Right to Be.

Others may judge, but one has the Right to Be.

This is a power shift, from the judger to the one being judged.

Empowering the individual to Be is liberating.

This is the Right to Be.

Do not judge me by your illusions of me. I am not a pair of ripped cut-off jeans.

Thanks to blog commenter:  MARIII