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UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF DUTIES

PREAMBLE

Considering that everything in the universe is in constant motion or change, especially living beings due to their active nature, and that they exist between excess and scarcity;

Considering that ignorance, lack of knowledge, lack of awareness, disdain, and destructive selfishness have led to acts of cruelty and devastation against living beings and other entities, as well as against noble principles and values;

Considering that love, goodness, numbers, truth, the universe, and things in general are learned, constructed, and resolved through interaction and relationships with other beings;

Considering that actions, interactions, and relationships among living beings and other entities should be protected, promoted, and developed under a regime of duties;

Considering that living beings, other entities, and their organizations are committed to avoiding unnecessary suffering and to developing well-being in its multiple forms;

Now, therefore,

The Signatories,

Proclaim the present Universal Declaration of Duties as a common ideal to which all individuals, other beings, and their organizations must strive, so that both individuals and institutions, inspired at all times by this declaration, promote its universal and effective recognition and application.

BACKGROUND AND SYNTHESIS

This declaration derives from and is synthesized from the “three meanings of love” of the Dasbien Theory, which states that love is necessary at different moments of our lives in three senses or directions: 1. To receive love from other beings (when we are children, when we are ill, when we are elderly, as we grow and learn, etc.); 2. To give love to our own being (when we care for ourselves, grow and learn, when we give ourselves what we need, desire, want, or what does us good); 3.To give love to other beings (when we interact with family, with people at work, care for our pets, care for plants, when we interact with other beings and generate well-being for them).

PRINCIPLES

  1. Duties are an artificial nature, intellectual construct, or discovery for existing, coexisting, and transcending in a healthy, sustainable, and beneficial manner for all.
  2. Duties involve actions and activities that generate appropriate and balanced interactions and relationships.
  3. The reason, goal, aim, purpose, or teleology of duties is goodness, well-being, and the common good of living beings and other entities.
  4. Rights are redefined as duties.
  5. The only reason or justification for not fulfilling a duty is that failing to do so results in a greater good.
  6. One of the primary duties is to seek and manage the balance of duties—duties that promote the well-being of our own being and the common good of other beings. This must be done at all times individually, and periodically collectively.
  7. The fulfillment of duties is accompanied by knowledge and capacities developed or provided by organizations or by previously formed beings such as our parents, ancestors, or society.

OUR BEING

  • What were once believed to be rights for ourselves are actually duties toward ourselves.
  • Duty to ensure that others fulfill their duties toward my being, my well-being.
  • Duties must be fulfilled, motivated by oneself, by other beings, and by organizations.
  • Duty governs our behavior, our thoughts, our emotions, our actions, and any manifestation of our being.
  • Duty to realize and develop my potential, as well as to seize opportunities for the benefit of my being and other beings.
  • Duty to assume responsibilities, or duties regarding the consequences and effects of our duties—whether fulfilled or not.
  • States and their agencies, governments, social organizations, and companies have as their ultimate goal the promotion of duties in various forms, but with the final spirit of promoting the well-being of the individual, other beings, and their environment.
  • Having more duties and fulfilling them would grant us an apparent greatness or superiority, due to the importance of that being in the existence, coexistence, or transcendence of other beings or their common good.
  • There are duties toward our own being; duties toward other beings—people, other animals, plants, other forms of life or individual existences; duties toward relationships among beings, organized life forms, or collective existences.
  • Duty to manage the fulfillment of my duties toward others, their well-being.
  • Duty to manage the fulfillment of duties by other beings toward other beings, their well-being.
  • This is managed through the development of awareness, competencies, and the creation of conditions or possibilities.
  • Duty to recognize and be grateful for the good received from other beings.
  • Duty to seek the greatest well-being of other beings, especially the less fortunate, to generate conditions and ensure the fulfillment of their duties.
  • Duty to promote and manage the realization and development of the potential of other beings for their benefit and the common good.
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