Chapter 21 — Rights, Paragraph 1.1 (§21.00.01.01)

A right is not a claim to do something, a request for a specific processing of information to take place. Because Beings have a permanent will to process information, a claim to process is considered present each time, that is, it is a constant—it is not something that can be used to distinguish between two conditions (i.e. a claim and a non-claim by an individual). In other words, individuals, as Beings, will always want to act, to process information (of course, not all individuals for each instance of processing but one or more individuals for each: not everyone wants to eat something at the same time and not everyone wants to build on a specific plot of land, but someone at any given moment does). Whenever allowed (and able) to do so, they have a right to do so. (Rights are primarily addressed to humans, as individualised through their states. As far as other Beings are concerned, organisations can have rights and are afforded to them in regulation; animals whenever afforded ‘rights’ fall under the category of protected Things, below; while the issue of the rights of artificial Beings remains, as yet, undecided. On the ‘rights’ afforded in certain states to Things so as to protect them, i.e. to prohibit certain types of processing on them that would otherwise be possible, see §25.00.05.)

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