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NFP Columnists - Tarek Refaat
Written by Tarek Refaat   
Thursday, 24 July 2008

ImageRights? What are rights? Is it the list of things, items, beliefs and many more things that each one of us (assumes he/she’s) entitled to? Well currently this would fit the definition. However rights is a very displacing word since a lot of people, nations and governments have conflicts on who has the rights for what?

How do we define rights? Each and every single human being tries to define his own rights and what he/she’s allowed to do and what they’re not allowed. However people tend time and again to be blinded by their needs, greed and hunger for more and forget that they end up trespassing on other people’s rights.

Some people stand up for their rights and beliefs while others refrain and just accept what ever they’re receiving and others commit suicide since they can’t stand their rights being taken away and in the same time they’re not able to do anything about it.

People differ as well as thoughts. People are like colors each color has a specific set of characteristics and reaction state with other colors. Some match and some don’t, some go well together and others don’t. But it is how we are willing to accept that others don’t match with us is what really matters. For example in the world we live in today nations are in a race to take control of the globe. Some believe that they’re giving, relieving and restoring peace to other nations.

We are all blinded by what are our rights from our point of view and we refuse to see where the other party is going. If we do we so and try to understand the other parties we deal with and understand their life, culture and beliefs we can then be able to know how to handle them perhaps then they might accept your/our/their views and see what fits them most. But enforcing and categorizing such as describing nations as world leading nations and others as 3rd world countries.

Where has this lead us in the past 30 years? Since world war 2 where over 40 million people died (military/civilians), wars have been breaking out all over the world , and brutal war crimes and organized crimes , spread of drugs and guns in the streets, etc. And many more.

Rights? Does the right to define what are the rights for every human being should be defined by a bunch of people sitting in an oval or round room? Or by the desires of nations and people

Or is it that before stating rights we should try to understand, analyze and study the people we live with, deal with and share with the same planet.

It is Ironic enough that the human race which has the same physical characteristics considers itself a set of multiple races!

I mean yes there are Americans, Chinese, French, Egyptians, and Africans, etc. But at the same time, none of them has 4 eyes! Or 6 ears? Or even 3 brains or 20 fingers?

We all live on water, air and food!

Rights. Rights will only be out there when we understand who we are.

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