Individual Rights Day 2024 is on Thursday, August 29, 2024: what are individual rights?

Thursday, August 29, 2024 is Individual Rights Day 2024. Maria Snyder News: ECO BOYS AND GIRLS CELEBRATE HUMAN RIGHTS DAY ... rights of every individual

Individual rights refer to the rights of individuals, in contrast with group rights. An individual right is the sanction of independent action. Both natural and legal conceptions or rights may distinguish between individual and group rights, although natural rights theories often limit themselves to discussion of individual rights, group rights thus existing mostly as legal rights. Likewise, while the distinction between individual and group rights may be largely coextensive with that between negative and positive rights, the two pairs of terms are not in fact cointensive; negative group rights and positive individual rights remain conceptual possibilities. Furthermore, while civil and political rights are predominantly concerned with the rights of individuals, leaving the rights of groups to the realm of economic, social and cultural rights, those sets of rights are not identical with the sets of individual rights and group rights either.

Individual rights advocates tend to argue for increased codification of individual legal rights to protect individuals from state infringement of their natural rights. This is traditionally associated with liberalism.

the greatest threat to individual rights is?

Sorry not to pick one of your choices, but...

The greatest threat to individual rights is the distortion of what constitutes individual rights and what they are rightly based upon. Let me explain, and sorry in advance for how long this is.

A judge in France recently declared that access to the Internet was a basic human right. This is simply the ad absurdum of a lot of political chatter these days, what with rights to affordable housing, the right to health care, the right to a living wage, and so on. Rights sound so noble, but something is askew.

Actually the concept of human rights is noble, and that is why the enemies of humans and their rights have taken up the language of "rights," the better to befuddle us with.

There is a chasm that separates the two views of rights. In the first, grounded in a biblical worldview, rights basically consist of the right to be left alone. The only subsidy that others must pay in support of this right is to do the leaving alone. I have the right to own property, which means that others have the obligation not to steal it from me. I have the right to keep and bear arms, which means that others don't get to take my gun. I have the right to free speech, which means that others have the obligation to let me say what I wish. I have the right to a fair trial if accused of a crime, which means that others must not bring charges against me that they cannot prove in an open court. The subsidy that others (especially others in the government) pay to me in support of my rights is that of abiding by the law when it comes to me. They can honor all my rights without ever finding out that I exist. To the extent they come into contact with me, they have the obligation to obey the Golden Rule. That's it. There is no expensive enforcement mechanism, no vast budgets, no regulatory agencies, nothing. Two guys sitting on a log all afternoon can honor all the rights given by God to the other one.

But let us look at the other kind of "right," so honored and prized by officious meddlers, tyrants, and regulatory punks. If I have a right to affordable health care, then that means someone else has an obligation. (All rights bring obligations for others with them. The two concepts of rights differ in the nature of the obligations they impose.) So if I have a right to affordable health care that I cannot afford, then this means that someone else has the obligation to make up the difference. If I have a right to own a house, but I cannot afford a house, then someone else, or a consortium of someone elses, has the obligation to buy me one. Get it?

When hunting around for who that somebody who owes me a house might be, I look (not being mama's little fool) for somebody with money. Whoever has some extra money owes me a house, darn it. And knee surgery. And a better job than the one at the warehouse I used to have.

Now notice what has happened, remembering the while what Isaiah said about those who invert their moral categories (Is. 5:20). Whichever definition of rights we follow, we need to remember that governments are fully capable of violating rights (whatever those rights are). If I have the right to speak freely, governments can violate my rights by punishing me for my foul sentiments by shipping me off to a Canadian hate crimes seminar for an entire weekend. If I have the right to a three bedroom house, the government can fail to ensure that those who owe me one give me one. So then, either way, the government can violate my rights.

But what happens if the first view is correct, and my rights consist largely of my life and property being left unhassled by others, but the government is proceeding on the assumption that my rights actually consist of me getting my share of the free chocolate milk that is owed to everyone? On the strength of that assumption, they will go in search of the funding for these rights, and they will take the funds that are necessary for me to get my milk, my house, and my surgery. But in doing this, they are stealing -- violating basic human rights, and they are doing it in the name of basic human rights.

God's Word says something about not stealing, even if you are the government. Ahab would not have had the right to take Naboth's vineyard even if he had been planning to fund Medicare with it. And God's Word does not say that I have the right to a free house, with someone else obligated to pay for it. This means that all the current talk about rights is a deceitful lie, calculated to create confusion so that the government can create a situation they desire about as much as anything -- free rein to trample on real human rights. And we must never forget that in this regard property rights are human rights.

The founders of the American Republic, flawed as they were, clearly understood these distinctions. They were not revolting against something old, but against something new. They were trying to preserve and reestablish the old order were the protection of these basic God ordained rights was the proper role of Government. This was as much a Christian view of things as was the 'first principle' view of human rights. The proper role of Government was to protect and ensure the preservation of these unassailable rights, and to mitigate justice when someone violated them. But what happens when the Government is the culprit? Their design for government at the federal level (the Constitution) was meant to hinder that possibility. That document is no longer a binding law... it is merely a figure head, something akin to British Royalty.

In short, by having the power to define what are "individual rights" unshackled from a biblical worldview, the government is the greatest threat to our actual God given rights.

What is Right Hemisphere Syndrome?

it is a non verbal learning disorder.

The right hemisphere of the brain handles communication, processes visuo-spatial information, holistic and gestalt-like stimuli. Any damage to the right hemisphere of the brain might result in some cognitive-communication problems including impaired memory, attention problems and poor reasoning ability. It can be caused by one or more of these medical conditions such as strokes, tumors, head trauma and various neurological diseases. An individual with a right hemisphere damage is often not aware of the cognitive difficulties or communication problems that he/she is experiencing. Right Hemisphere Syndrome (also known as Right Hemisphere Learning Disorder or Non-Verbal Learning Disorder or NVLD for short) is the term used to describe the disorder. Thus, this syndrome can have a significant effect on the individual’s social and academic aspects of communication and learning.

Individuals with RHS experience communication problems that are more subtle in nature than those that occur due to left hemisphere damage. This is because the language faculty is centered in the left hemisphere (LH), while cognitive functioning is often housed in the right hemisphere (RH). Cognitive-communication problems that can occur from RH damage include the following difficulties:

1. Individuals with attention-related problems from the RH damage manifest difficulties concentrating on a task amid distractions and paying attention for more than a few minutes at one go. They also find performing multiple tasks at once difficult or impossible.

2. Left-side neglect is a form of attention deficit that may occur from RHS, i.e., the individual can no longer acknowledge the left side of his/her body or space. He/She will not brush the left side of the hair (as if he/she has becomes blind to one side), eat food on the left side of the plate as he/she does not see it or look for it. Reading is also affected as the individual with RHS does not read the words on the left side of the page, starting only from midline. This is also sometimes known as neglect dyslexia.

3. Those who experience memory difficulties show problematic recalling what is already or previously learned such as street names or important dates, and may not be able to acquire new information easily.

4. Disorganization can also be seen in individuals with RHS. For instance, such an individual finds it tough to correctly sequence events when narrating a story or giving directions or maintaining a topic in a conversation with another person.

5. Orientation problems such as difficulty recalling the date, time, or place may also be evident in individuals with RHS. These individuals may also be disoriented to self, i.e., they are unable to correctly recall personal information (e.g., birthdate, age or names).

6. Impaired problem-solving abilities may be noticed in individuals with RHS. They may not react appropriately when presented with a common occurrence, e.g., a car breakdown. Hence, if such an individual is left unsupervised, he/she may pose as a danger to him/herself as he/she could cause injury to self as well as others.

7. Reasoning may also be imparied; the individual experiences difficulty in interpreting abstract language (e.g., metaphors and responding to humor appropriately).

8. Finally, social judgment is impaired and the person with RHS may laugh at inappropriate times or say inappropriate things without realizing that he/she has done so or offended the listener(s). RHS can result in problems in the pragmatic use of language leading the person to ignore or misinterpret nonverbal cues and lose the meaning of the message.

Individuals with RHS display cognitive-communication problems should seek professional help from a speech-language pathologist, who will design a treatment plan to improve the cognitive-communication abilities. Other professionals such as neuropsychologists and psycho-educational therapists with advanced training in RHS should also be able to provide appropriate intervention programs.