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Human Rights Day blog.

As it is Human Rights Day, I see it fit that I write about something on the abuse of unsuspecting people that happens almost daily in my region of the world. Slavery may be gone, legally, worldwide but some social constructs allow a sort of slavery to still occur. This is the scourge of treating people as objects. I used to be one of these abused people who simply didn't know better, I was simply a tool doing other people's work for a reason I'm still not clear about.

Sociology analyses the human mind & many things about humans & the human mind are largely predictable, so I suppose someone knew how our minds work & got us to do their bidding for them.

The thing is, people with foresight can acquire the ability to direct our lives in a way that either makes our lives better or worse in the foreseeable future. Often adults direct children's lives in a way that develops them & less often try to make children's lives a misery for reasons only known to them. And the same concept happens with people who have more knowledge of certain circumstances & people who are oblivious to them in the situation of scammers & people who are scammed or simply in the case of people being used by people for a quick gain & then quickly disposed of as though plastic. I think it fails to register to some that people have their own minds, perceptios & lives to live. People are not tools to be used as though an axe, a sickle or a knife. We have failed to believe that we can live our lives without harming others. So I think the Human Right of free will should be given a greater role in our lives so that we are not tools used by evil forces, but free to follow the path chosen by our heart & God for our lives. Free will to fight & not have the right to our existence deligitimised. All have the right to choose how they live their lives within a certain legal or religious framework & other than that we have no right to prevent an individual from living in the jungle, sea or volcano within a legal & religious framework because private property rights exist. We have no right to control what other people do with their bodies within a legal & religious framework. This is what my concept of free will is all about. Happy Human Rights Day. 

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