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These Conditions and Elaborations may be revised in accordance with, but never contrary to, the purposes and principles of Conscientism.
Article 1. The means to maintain a healthy physical and mental condition and hygienic living environment:
1) A quota of potable water adequate for hydration and sanitation
Allocated according to standard profiling; refined according to individual circumstances (where applicable); measured by a qualified dietician.
2) A quota of nutritional food adequate for health and sustenance
Allocated according to standard profiling; refined according to individual circumstances (where applicable); measured by a qualified dietician.
3) Reasonably secure and private shelter with appropriate utilities, amenities and furnishings
Structurally sound accommodation with door and window locks/latches, curtains or blinds, effective insulation, controllable ventilation, smoke alarms, clothing, beds and bedding, cooking and dining equipment, refrigerator, table and chairs, functioning toilet, shower, basin, washing machine, clothesline, cleaning products, and anything else of universal basic requirement to domestic self-sufficiency; in quantities and arrangements appropriate to the standard requirements of the tenants.
4) Access to any required health service
Requirement determined by the service provider (if officially recognised) or referred by a General Practitioner.
5) Adequate toiletries and medicines applicable to maintaining or regaining a healthy and hygienic physical condition
Determined by standard profiling and valid prescriptions/authorisations.
6) A social order dedicated to effectively eradicating macro-environmental pollution and rehabilitating polluted environments
Article 2. The means to fulfil designated Responsibilities:
1) Education at any required level, in any discipline; open-ended scholarship
Where propensity and determination permit, and where opportunity is available.
2) Choice of active profession/s
Where qualified, and if desired profession is underrepresented.
3) Minimum working hours sufficient to perform designated tasks, and to allow reasonably equal sharing of a consistent workload (where practical) with other designated contributors
To be determined by applicable Industry and science.
4) Maximum working hours sufficient to avoid compromising personal and domestic Rights and Responsibilities
To be determined by trial-and-error.
May involve lengthening or shortening the ubiquitous 7-day week.
5) Entitlements, proportionate to contribution made
Determined by dedicated profession.
6) Be consulted and officially acknowledged whenever one’s work and qualifications are relevant to the determination of a societal matter
7) All required vocational equipment (for use on approved tasks)
Accessible in workplace, or held in private custody where practical. Maintenance and duty of care applies.
8) All required educational equipment
Accessible in school, or held in private custody where practical. Maintenance and duty of care applies.
9) All training relevant to the particular vocational position
Duties, responsibilities, allowances.
10) Accommodation in close proximity to workplace/s
Where workplace is consistent, and if available.
11) Protest regarding Standard Occupational Procedure, citing non-compliance with requisite Principles
To Industry Bureau, via workplace administration; must thereon be investigated and, if valid, effectively addressed in due course.
12) Anonymous, registered complaint regarding serial incompetence or negligence in colleagues
To Industry Bureau, via workplace administration; must thereon be investigated and, if valid, effectively addressed.
13) All basic equipment and information necessary for successful child-rearing (where applicable)
As determined by applicable science.
Article 3. General liberties:
1) Sufficient opportunities for sleep and rest
“Sufficient” to be defined by science and general opinion.
2) Periodic holidays
Determined by general/relative workload.
3) Regular opportunities for recreation
4) Experience of culture
Depending on accessibility of product, event or practice; some shall require Entitlement.
5) Celebration
Plus allowance for modest means, if warranted.
6) Domestic solitude
Applies to human adults only.
7) Consensual co-habitation
Applies to human adults only.
8) Consensual marriage
Applies to human adults only.
9) Adoption
Applies to responsible* human adults only. Earns Entitlements. To be encouraged over reproduction, while world overpopulation persists.
10) Divorce
11) Be respectfully informed and officially consulted regarding any planned societal activity by which one is directly affected
In any realm, public, vocational or private. Opt-in may apply regarding consultation.
12) Accessible societal services and infrastructure conducive to maximising the independence of those with physical or intellectual disability
No obstacles beyond the disability itself (where practicable).
13) Multiple choice as a parent, as to the kind of education that shall be given to their child [26-3]
Available options must be compliant with Conscientist principles.
14) Freedom of thought, conscience and religion, including freedom to change one's religion or belief; and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest one's religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance [18]
15) Not be prevented from receiving accurate, descriptive information regarding any religion, science, belief system, philosophy, creation myth or origin theory
16) Freedom of opinion and expression, including freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any available media and regardless of frontiers [19]
17) Freedom of peaceful assembly and association [20-1]
18) Not be compelled to belong to an association [20-2]
19) Protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any technological, literary or artistic production of which one is the author [27-2]
Not including monetary interests derived from trade with capitalist states. Ordinate Entitlements however, shall be awarded.
20) A social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realised [28]
21) An economic and administrative system that effectively serves to perpetuate society in acknowledgement of, and respect for, the fragility of natural systems and the finiteness of their resultant resources
22) An economic and administrative system that alleviates need, inhibits the expression of greed, and rewards beneficial societal contribution
23) Free movement and exchange between Conscientist states
Customs may apply for biological considerations.
Article 4. Possession of property:
1) Permanent, exclusive custody of inheritable, and otherwise eligible, property
Heirlooms or other family-relevant material, self-relevant material, self-produced material, hygienically-personal material. Responsibilities regarding storage methods may apply.
2) Long-term custody of eligible property
Eligibility of custodian determined by either Entitlements or Responsibilities, whichever is applicable. Eligibility of property determined by its physical properties, scope of application, availability.
3) Short-term custody of eligible property
As above.
4) Innovative and/or aesthetic modification of eligible property
Necessary, enhancing, or otherwise customised (for permitted purposes) modifications permitted, though generally only on inferior (late capitalist era) or otherwise-degraded examples, using readily-available materials and products, if an ability to rationally differentiate between the intended outcome, and the most likely outcome, of such experimentation generally, can be demonstrated. Certain materials applicable to certain levels of complexity of experimentation shall only be supplied to those with sufficient expertise in a relevant field.
5) Not be compelled to accept an unwanted Entitlement as substitute for a preferred one that is unavailable
6) Custody over, or access to, all required/desired property owned prior to the introduction of Conscientism
Entitlement deductions may apply, i.e. the possessor may be essentially indebted to society until possession is "paid off"; alternatively, surrender of property cancels debt, reinstates full Entitlements. Reasonable allowance of pre-earned property permitted (similar to what Conscientism would have provided in the same period).
Article 5. Factually-informed control over ones own physical destiny:
1) Not be held in slavery or servitude [4]
2) Not be subjected to torture, or cruel or degrading treatment or punishment [5]
3) Not be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile [9]
4) Not be killed by another
5) Not be compelled to kill
6) Consensual sexual activity with other adult humans only
7) Contraception and common safeguards against infectious agents
8) Sexual reproduction
Disincentives thru limited Entitlements may apply, due to overpopulation.
9) Early-stage foetal abortion
Maximum gestation to be determined by medical consensus.
10) Self-termination, and the means to do so in a reliable, non-distressing and pain-free manner; aided if required and desired
Once psychological soundness has been confirmed, familial objections and counselling have been addressed and exhausted, and aftermath organised.
11) Consumption of mind- or body-altering substances
If Entitlement earned, once brain has matured (an age determined by science). Uncontaminated, of unambiguous origin and/or identity. Maximum variety.
12) Engagement in any recreational activity in which self-risk is inherent
If Entitlements and resource allocations allow.
13) All relevant, accurate information regarding methods and/or substances, their relative safety, and the likely and potential effects (both positive and negative) of any activity necessarily involving self-risk
14) Availability (through Entitlement) of methods and/or substances that minimise the potential for objective self-harm (both physical and psychological) while maximising the desired effect of the risky activity
Article 6. Legal standing:
1) Recognition everywhere as a person before the law [6]
2) Equal protection of the law, without any discrimination [7]
3) An effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted to one by the constitution or by law [8]
4) A fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of one's rights and obligations and of any criminal charge [10]
5) If charged with a penal offence, to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which one has had all the guarantees necessary for one's defence [11-1]
6) Not be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor have a heavier penalty imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed [11-2]
7) Not be subjected to arbitrary interference with one's privacy, family, home or correspondence [12]
8) Not be subjected to unsubstantiated attacks upon one's honour and reputation [12]
9) Freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state [13-1]
If in reasonable vicinity of duties
10) To leave any country, including one's own, and to return to one's country [13-2]
11) To seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution [14-1]
This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of Conscientism and the United Nations. [14-2]
12) An official Record of one's existence
13) A legally registered name and nationality [15-1]
While separate nations exist.
14) Not be arbitrarily deprived of one's nationality nor denied the right to change one's nationality [15-2]
While separate nations exist.
15) Full probationary Citizenship awarded to any adult within geographical jurisdiction, able to demonstrate sufficient understanding and acceptance of Conscientist society. Applicable education provided where necessary, to ensure an adequately informed decision
16) The protection of the law against any interference with, or deprivation of, these Rights
1. Where possible, to know and be cared for by one's parents [7]
2. Not be separated from one's parents unless being maltreated [9]
3. Contact with both parents, unless this might harm the child [9]
4. Where families live in different countries, movement between those countries to enable parents and children to stay in contact, or reunite as a family [10]
5. Rejection of specific, prospective adoptive parents or foster carers
6. Not be taken out of one's own country illegally [11]
7. Be properly cared for and protected from violence, abuse and neglect by one's parents, or any other allocated guardian [19]
8. Where one's family is necessarily absent, be properly cared for by people who respect one's religion, culture and language [20]
9. Have one's situation reviewed regularly, where a local authority provides care rather than one's parents [25]
10. Have one's opinions taken into account when adults are making decisions that affect one [12]
11. Physical wellbeing and dignity when receiving discipline at school and at home [28]
12. Freedom to receive and share information that is not harmful to the individual child or to children generally [13]
13. Freedom to meet with other children and young people, and to join Conscientist-compliant groups and organisations [15]
14. Full probationary Citizenship awarded to children who come as refugees into the geographical jurisdiction of a Conscientist society [22]
1. Except where necessary to prevent greater suffering, not be subjected to treatment or acts known or expected to entail physical or psychological suffering. These include certain training techniques, transportation, and experimentation [3-1] [6-1]
2. Not be killed unnecessarily by human act or decision. Where death is deemed necessary, one as instantaneous and painless as reasonably possible, that causes no apprehension [3-2] [7]
3. Where possible, freedom to live and reproduce in a healthy, thriving native habitat and ecosystem, minimally compromised by pollution, invasive species and detrimental human interference [4-1] [8-2]
4. Where directly dependent on humans, proper sustenance and care, and not be abandoned or killed unjustifiably [5-1] [5-2]
5. Not be subjected to inbreeding, or breeding that inadvertently maintains or exacerbates physiologically unhealthy traits [5-3]
Particularly for the purposes of subjective aesthetics and pedigree purism.
6. Not be compelled to perform unnatural behaviour [5-3]
Where physical or psychological suffering is demonstrable.
7. Not be unnecessarily or unnaturally confined to captivity
Where physical or psychological suffering is demonstrable.
8. Not have the survival of one's entire species threatened as a result of human behaviour [8-1]
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