The Science of Rights

I was excited to come across said video after reading the two books the video made reference to. I found those “seven minutes” intriguing on many levels. 1. The video starts by questioning Thomas Jefferson's claim, about all humans having Unalienable Rights.2. There are those who disagree with Jefferson as the focus switched to President Woodrow Wilson's published writings declaring our Rights are “nonsense. ” 3. In defense of Wilson, the video points to the social climate of the day, was one of Social Darwinism; and its effects on Wilson's reasoning, not only on our Rights, but advancing the “Living Constitutional” argument. 4. The focus smoothly switched to Darwin and the popular phrase of “survival of the fittest. ” 5. Analyzing the phrase “survival of the fittest” relative to Unalienable Rights was new to me when reading those books, and I'm sure it would be thought provoking for others who watch this video presentation relative to a what if scenario. That is, what if, Social Darwinism embraced “survival of the happiest” instead of “survival of the fittest” during the first half of last century? What about the potential loss of those fallen geniuses or their prodigy during WWI and WWII who could have advanced the standard of living for all? 6. The video presentation then loops back to Jefferson's claim. A claim incorporated in the design of a governance (aka USA), who took the “road less traveled” during its formation, which includes embracing and protecting the individual's Unalienable Rights. 7. The results of this design in governance, an empirical data point, changed the world like no other social system in recorded history in a short 200 year period, by the fruits of technology, food production, and medicine, the stables of human existence throughout the world today. A compelling example when our Unalienable Rights are morally free to flow and operate within the awesome machinery of Nature. 8. In the shadow of this awesome machinery of Nature, the presentation takes a second quote from Jefferson's Declaration of Independence (“the Laws of Nature, and of Nature's God”) to include those of faith. I find this to be a very important inclusion; for a large global populist is one of faith. Something to consider, when said populist is currently in a bloody conflict over the many different references of the Divine. 9. I found a bold move in this video of science to include those of faith, supporting their understanding in the origin of the Cosmos was God's creation. Placing yourself in the vantage point of those of faith, the Laws of Nature becomes part of the Cosmos; therefore, these Laws become alive as the handwriting of God, in the eyes of the faithful, where the scientific method is a way to read God's handwriting. An important and constructive attempt to bridge the divide between atheist and those of faith. But more importantly becomes the critical view for those of faith, to consider God's handwriting (the Laws of Nature), as guidance, when interpreting man's written scriptures of the Devine by fallible humans. In essence, the video up to this point, is trying to focus on the reality that our Unalienable Rights are a common link throughout humanity. Having such knowledge could help exploit the ongoing effort in reducing global conflict by the human family's unification; in the natural flow of evolution embracing survival of a species. On the other hand, I regret to say, extinction is also part of evolution. 10. In the second half, the video presents a convincing traceable path of our Unalienable Rights to the physical Laws of Nature via the Constructal Law. The Constructal Law governs evolution in biology, physics, technology, social organization, adding depth and resolution to the symphony of flow conducted by the Laws of Nature through time. Since humanity is a product of the Laws of Nature, and subordinate within its matrix, there is no need to elaborate, one needs to view the video on this important link that will change the world in time. 11. The last segment covers man's historical age old desire for controlled flight, becomes the metaphor, when understanding and morally following the Laws of Nature lifts the tide of the standard of living for all. Having a simple and intuitive insight of life's Unalienable Rights, a known physical Law in Nature by the masses, will naturally benefit humanity in the subtle progression of one day obtaining controlled flight in social optimization and configuration of governance; for the Laws of Nature are universal and omnipotent, superseding all of man-made laws in conflict thereof.