Chapter 07 — State definition - States are information platforms for their citizens, Paragraph 5.1 (§07.00.05.01)

Importantly, once a human is individualised in this manner, it becomes impossible for any other human to ignore the fact. One (a human, or any other Being for the same purposes) cannot choose to ignore, refuse or challenge it: a name and a citizenship is granted at birth to a specific human and one has no choice other than to acknowledge the fact. It may be that one will never interact with that person, whether out of choice or out of chance. However, should any individual initiate communication with another Being, that other Being has to react to the communication (in any way it pleases, of course) on that basis, taking the assumption of a name and a citizenship, that is, of a specific unique identification, for granted. (The cases of forced name changing in recorded history being the precursor to the committing of horrendous crimes against the victims of this (dehumanising, because it is de-individualising) practice.) In other words, in the above example, Maria may choose to ignore a contact request from John, but she cannot ignore the fact (or avoid making the assumption) that it is John who contacted her. (In stark difference to state relationships, where a state may simply ignore the name (and existence) of another: see §19.00.02, where it is clarified that states are still found in a ‘state of nature’ (in terms of human development).)

Navigate: ← §07.00.05.00 · Corpus · §07.00.06.00 →