You are free to be what I want you to be

By Marilú Acosta

The brain is a rather lazy organ and has certain mechanisms that allow it to skip processes so that, in everyday and repetitive situations, it reaches the same conclusion. That is to say, although we believe that we always think, in reality we do not, what happens inside our brain is that we use known neural pathways, already well used, and that is why we repeat conclusions, without really pondering, analyzing, comparing, investigating, or including new information to process, reason and conclude something different. We can generate some novelty in some topics and yet, in others, behave exactly the same as what we want to change.

Human rights are the rights of every human being. The only requirement to have these rights is to belong to the human species, which has a wide range of possibilities of expression, as well as characteristics of different kinds. Neither the expression nor the characteristics matter, because the only thing that interests these rights is that we are human. And these rights are based on dignity. The word dignity has as its Latin root dignitas - dignus and this in turn comes from the Indo-European root dek- which means action of taking or acceptance. To accept ourselves as human beings, to take humanity is the basis of human rights and it is from them that we have the possibility to develop ourselves in an integral way, as persons.