There are two camps in regard to the source of a person’s rights. Some believe that rights are something bestowed upon a person, while others that they are innate, inalienable. These two camps are derivative of the only two elements a living organism can abstract from the environment, material difference and form.

Material difference is relative, and thus rights would be something bestowed upon a person—if they were in fact relative.

Form is absolute, and thus rights are inalienable, meaning neither gods nor men, not even one’s self can bestow them or take them away.

Definition determines class membership, the foundation of judgment itself. Definition is absolute.

Definition, in language, determines the principles of predication. One cannot claim that a person’s rights are something granted one by anyone or any thing, without violating the principles of the grammar the claim is made in. Thus, one cannot even surrender their rights, or bestow their rights without violating the very grammar the agreement is made in. It would be gibberish.

Therefore, those who claim to have rights in regard to other people are plainly, by the principles of grammar they speak and write in, speaking gibberish also.

What then are our rights, as a living organism? What are the rights no one, no man, nor any god, can take from us?

Every living organism must acquire its sustenance from the environment. It acquires this nourishment via systems which may be called environmental acquisition systems. Let me propose a definition by which one can determine class membership.

Definition: An environmental acquisition system of a living organism is that system of an organism, which must acquire something from the environment, process that which it has acquired for a product that maintains and promotes the life of that organism.

1) The digestive system.
2) The respiratory system.
3) The vestibular system.
4) The ocular system.
5) The manipulative system.
6) The procreative system.
7) The judgmental system.

Each of these systems produces for one’s own body. By each and every one of them we maintain and promote the life of the body. Each of these is a crafting system. Thus, human rights resolve down to the rights of a craftsman to be the beneficiary of his own labor. This is what is meant by “and he shall cause craft to prosper.” We are evolving to be craftsmen and have dominion over the earth.

Of the 7, we are mind, the last. Our craft is reason in order to predict the results of human action that maintains and promotes our life. In so doing for ourselves, we shall do for all life.