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From: Tim D. Brigham <TBrigham@ksinc.net>
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 02:09:17 -0500
Fwd Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 08:30:42 -0400
Subject: The Declaration of Individual Autonomy


[Here's to a Happy 4th and hoping that ebk doesn't get annoyed by
my off subject post. Then again, perhaps it's not too far off if
you read it closely? ;) I try not to do this too often, so it's
worth a shot....]

THE DECLARATION
OF
INDIVIDUAL AUTONOMY

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for
people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them
with others, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the
separate and equal station to which they may choose to aspire, a
decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they
should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We
hold that no truths are self-evident, but must have their
usefulness demonstrated. That all people are created with equal
freedom from tyranny, but frequently accept domination or
obedience to a legal code, to a greater or lesser degree from
person to person. That people are endowed with only what rights
they have chosen to be endowed with, through wisdom or common
folly, for wealth or ilth. That people can secure for
themselves, with understanding of their own unique situations,
those rights which best allow them to live in fruitful harmony
with other people. That whenever any person, Government, or
other entity, not fully recognizing the unique situation of each
individual, becomes in any way oppressive or destructive, people
may choose to ignore, alter or abolish such an institution, and
to live in whatever manner they decide, with understanding of
the situation, will allow them whatever conflict or harmony they
so require for their happiness and survival. That man can choose
to resolve any conflict through intelligence, with, adequate
communication and a full understanding of each and every point
of view involved, by each and every person involved. Prudence,
indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should
not be changed for light and transient causes, but only after
calm consideration of the True Will and mutual goals of all
those individuals involved. All experience has shown that people
are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to
right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are
accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations
evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism or
Dogma not chosen by the individual concerned, it is their right,
it can be their choice, to throw off such a Government and to
accept responsibility, each for their own future security.

The most apparent difficulty herein lies in the general
inability of people to understand the specific direction of
their unique organism, or, understanding it, to make the firm
resolve necessary to shake free the shackles of cultural
conditioning and Dogma accepted through poorly considered
indoctrination. Therefore, those of us who now declare their
individual autonomy (and this document speaks only for those who
freely choose to do so) are faced with a potentially arduous
task of self-examination, compounded by the resistance
encountered from those who do not comprehend the changes
engendered by this individual declaration. But the rewards of
this liberation are enormous, being the very fulfillment of each
individual's own nature, and therefore the nature of the human
race as a whole. Those of us who choose to accept this self-
responsibility do so, we believe, for the advantage of all.

The crimes against individuals by those who blindly group
together under the flags of Governments, religions, and other
institutions are too numerous to fully discuss, but can be
categorized in the following way: Actual legislation which
limits the freedom of individuals in speech, worship, thought,
and any actions which do not, themselves, infringe upon the
freedoms of others; Cultural norms, taboos, peer pressures,
moral codes and any other influences which likewise limit the
freedoms of individuals.

It should be strongly emphasized that we recognize that various
dogmas, models and systems are necessary for the harmonious
growth of humanity, but, in all things, these can be the choice
of the individual. If one person and another believe that it is
their will to band together for a specific purpose, under
delineated restrictions, then they are free to do so, given that
their purpose still respects and allows the differing beliefs
and actions of those who stay apart from their group. If one
person believes that it is his will to stand apart from all
others, then he is free to do so, given that he does not
interfere with the free behavior of any other. In the same
manner, the dogma or meta-dogma of this Declaration is intended
to apply only to those who freely choose to accept it as being
beneficial or useful in the attainment of their own True Will.

We, therefore, the people of the planet Earth who choose to
accept responsibility for our own lives, do publish and declare
that we can be FREE AND INDEPENDENT PEOPLE, that we are absolved
from all allegiance to any dogma, system or code that we have
not chosen for ourselves, that we as individuals have full power
to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish
Commerce and to do all other Acts and Things which individual
People may of right do.

(copyright 1987 Philip H. Farber - This document may be
reproduced freely in its entirely, as long as it is kept
complete, including these lines.)


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