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Universal Human Life Necessities and Goods Framework
Pease scroll right to see the columns on the right| Domain of Necessity | Universal Life Goods | Generic Criterion (N-axiom) | Condition of Sufficiency | Manifestation of Deprivation | Corresponding Human Right |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atmospheric Goods | Unpolluted air, sunlight, climate cycles, and seeing-hearing space | Deprivation results in reduction of life capacity towards death; oxygenated air cannot be absent for six minutes without incapacitation. | Flourishing access to breathable air and natural light without which life capacities are reduced or life ceases. | Air pollution, toxic sun radiation, ozone destruction, and cumulative occupation of open space by decibels and fumes. | Right to life; implied in international life-protective norms and the right to health. |
| Bodily Goods | Clean water, nourishing food, fit clothing, and waste disposal | Vital need where deprivation results in reduction of life capacity; includes intervals such as a day without water or a week without food. | Access to potable liquids, caloric intake, and nutritional complements calibrated to size and age without capacity loss. | Malnourishment, diseases from chemically adulterated foods, and depletion of organic immune resistance. | Right to food, clean water, and an adequate standard of living (UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights). |
| Home and Habitat Goods | Shelter from elements and noxious animals/materials with means to sleep and freely function | Life-value foundation where deprivation restricts the organic coordinates of felt being and animate movement. | Provision of housing as a public non-profit good or secure tenure where life ranges are not restricted by lack of shelter. | Home-insecurity, homelessness, and debt-servitude to private banks at compound-interest charges. | Right to a decent home and adequate housing (Roosevelt's Second Bill of Rights; UN Declaration). |
| Environmental Integrity | Natural and constructed elements contributing to a life-supporting whole | Need for environmental integrity where squalid disorder or lack of stimulus reduces vital signs of alertness and life function. | Public coordination and life standards ensuring pleasant and life-supporting surroundings across cultures. | Ungreen urban sprawl, loot-mining of forests, and destruction of habitat/biodiversity. | Right to an equitable environment and environmental hygiene (ICESCR). |
| Social Goods (Security and Healthcare) | Reliable care, work-day limits/safety, accessible healthcare, and security of person | Deprivation of care results in loss of the will to live; deprivation of healthcare results in disease and death. | Provision of universal public healthcare and life-protective security systems without price barriers. | Addictive junk food diseases, income insecurity, and casualties from prioritizing "national security" over life security. | Right to social security, medical care, and protection from old age, sickness, and accident. |
| Cultural Life Goods | Language, the arts, participant civil rights, and play | Deprivation reduces life capacities in thought, felt being, and action, rendering life subhuman in quality. | Universal access to cultural creations, literacy, and means of expression without price or media control. | Commodification of culture, reduction of communication to sales-promotion, and debt-contracts for education. | Right to education, freedom of speech and belief, and participation in cultural life. |
| The Human Vocation | Enabling each to contribute to the provision of universal life goods | Ultimate need for life contribution; without work or vocation, individuals wither and suffer disease or social disaster. | The right to perform work of life-value to others and life-interest to self (hours worked as the unit of obligation). | Disemployment, alienating labor for private profit only, and the hollowing out of self-realizing occupations. | Right to work, to just and favorable conditions of work, and to a useful and remunerative job. |
