How can we have equal rights when we are all so different?

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readFeb 11, 2022

Question from the Internet:

“Because human minds work on so many different levels from one another, how is it possible to have equal rights?”

We do not have “equal rights”, we can’t even understand each other, there is nothing common between us as long as everybody remains stuck in their own, inherently unique, egocentric, subjective spheres, viewing others and reality from their own point of view.

But when we gradually understand that with all of our uniqueness, special qualities, talents, and abilities we are integral parts of a single whole — like individual cells of the same living organism — and that we are totally interdependent, then we will also feel and understand our “equal rights”, responsibility, obligation: that we have to make all our calculations, decisions, actions for the sake, for the wellbeing of the whole collective, for the whole Natural system.

Only that way can we facilitate a good, healthy, successful life for all of us, since the health, success, and the survival of the individual is intricately, inevitably intertwined with the health, success, and survival of the whole.

It is only then, that we also understand how to use our unique abilities, qualities, talents most optimally when we find our perfect, mutually responsible, and mutually complementing place in the system.

And then, beyond “simple” physical survival as a result of the purposeful mutual integration, cooperation, we will also start to sense a qualitatively much higher, truly Human life by the mutual “circulation/communication” flowing through the positive, facilitating interconnections. As we become similar to Nature’s mutual integration we start to sense the actual life-giving, life-sustaining force of Nature that also created and sustains our own existence.

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Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.