What is our truly Human right?

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readDec 14, 2022

Question from the Internet:

“How do we know when something is a human right rather than something people want but don’t have a right to have?”

In order to know what is a “human right,” we need to disconnect from our inherently self-centered, subjective, and individualistic worldview and calculations.

By default, we all want individual rights; we all want to do whatever we dream about, want, and feel that it is good for us. Since we are all 100% self-serving and self-justifying by nature, we all honestly believe that we deserve everything we want, and we can justify whatever we do in order to get what we want, even if others consider our actions wrong or a crime.

This is how we behave with each other; this is how human society is built, where the more powerful minority, who also have the facilities to broadcast their propaganda 24/7, can then coerce their version of “human rights” on the rest.

At the same time, we exist in Nature’s fully integrated and mutually integrated system, which also forces humanity to become a globally interconnected and totally interdependent system.

As we can gradually see and learn, as long as we stubbornly chase and try to enforce our inherently egocentric and subjective version of “human rights” on each other, we keep destroying everything and we destroy ourselves and the whole of humanity.

In Nature’s system, in living, integral systems, an individual — that can be a cell, an organ of the body, or a human being in society — has a single right only: to learn how to serve others and the collective in the most optimal way, according to their best ability. Then they will have the right to demand everything they justly and proportionately need in order to maintain their crucially important, mutually complementing existence and actions.

What do we gain by acting according to our inherent nature, serving our egos all the time while fighting for individual rights?

Since we act like cancer in the integrated and interdependent system, we gain death, which can become very real and literal in our generation.

What do we gain by learning how to act as Nature’s integral elements act? We gain life since by building Nature-like, mutually responsible, and mutually complementing integration and cooperation, we start to experience life as we never felt before. In our integral connections, we will feel a circulation of energy, a unique communication that can elevate our life experience to a qualitatively much higher level. And since we also gain a special “collective intellect,” we can easily solve and prevent any problems coming our way.

Moreover, by experiencing life through each other, we gain a unique, selfless, objective, and composite perception of reality, giving us a very realistic and tangible sense of existence above the egocentric and subjective limitations of time or space, independent of physical life or death.

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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.