What individual rights and responsibilities do we have?

Zsolt Hermann
1 min readNov 16, 2022

Question from the Internet:

“Where are we wrong to give people rights?”

We do not understand who we are and what system we exist in.

We usually think that we exist as independent and standalone beings who can do whatever we think and like. This is where the notions of “individual freedom” and “individual rights” come from.

But in fact, we exist in a fully integrated band totally interdependent system, where, in effect, we are all but individual cells of the same living organism.

Thus with every action or even thought, we irrevocably and inevitably influence the whole system to its farthest corners. And since our inherent “modus operandi” is 100% egocentric, subjective and individualistic, with every thought and action, we cause harm to everybody and the whole system.

This is behind the state of our world and the root cause of everything that happens, regardless of what we imagine and whether we agree with this notion.

So now, in view of our actual state, we need to reexamine and reevaluate the following: what rights do we have, and what responsibilities do we have?

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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.