Development As A Right

What is it about Development - be it in ICT or any other form of 'development' in the context of nations - which makes it intolerable for some to discuss a Right to development? It's a perspective to which I cannot subscribe - that there would be no Right for development.

But some people say there is no such Right, or that such a Right has no bearing on discussions related to governance, technology, or other things. Again, I do not understand. So I wrote the following in an email to the governance list related to WSIS (edited slightly from the original email):

Perhaps if we see 'right of development' as, instead, 'right to increase the speed of the process of development within the context of the affected people', we could see how such a Right contributes to development.

When the founding Fathers of the United States wrote, 'pursuit of life, liberty and justice' - a very open ended phrase - one could say that development is derivative since liberty would be served by the process of development. I don't know any group out there that would say that they would like to work harder instead of smarter, which means that there would be more liberty. While that's the United States as it was founded (and not necessarily the United States now), perhaps that ideology which drove the U.S. Constitution and asserted rights which themselves caused war within the United States itself... maybe it isn't limited to the United States and never was. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is pretty clear along the same lines.

By enabling the Rights of Human Beings, by Acknowledging these Rights, we cannot disregard the associated derivative Rights of Society, and therefore the derivative Rights of Societies withing the greater society of [t:Global Society].

I believe... as I believe others do... that one does not have to move ahead by pushing others down. That is a principle of Freedom. I am Free, as long as I do not adversely affect the Freedom of Others. Therefore, I am Free to Develop as long as I do not Adversely Affect the [t:Freedom] of Others. Therefore, any Society I belong to which claims Civility is Free to Develop as long as it does not Adversely Affect the Freedom of Other
Societies. One cannot adversely affect the Freedom of Other Societies within the Global Society without an equal and opposing reaction force.

That is why humanity started off with blunt objects, proceeded to sharp and pointy objects, then projectiles, and even now anticoagulant, ball bearings, fertilizer and a carbon based life form. When Freedoms are affected adversely, people react in ways that only an opposing thumb can allow.

Therefore, if we want Peace then we as members of a global society need to recognize that our Freedom is curtailed by any adverse effect on other people's Freedoms, which includes the Process of Development, which by Right of Freedom creates the derivative Right to Development.

Development is not a standalone process. It is a part of larger
processes. In fact, development could be called a process of streamlining other processes.

Moral posturing and clear thinking are not necessarily separate
things... we should be careful when dealing with others in a global society not to think the two, because they may be separate in our minds, are separate in anyone else's. One mindset tends to separate things such that people who say the world is round go to prison, and people who can explain how the Space Shuttle blew up have to do so through demonstrations on television in public instead of formal documents. Many
of the world's recognized scientists have established that science without morality is bad; we could say the same of anything else - including the process of development - which includes the Freedom to streamline the processes of development.

No responses to that yet, so I figured I would go fishing in the bigger pond... the point here being that every nation has the Rights of it's citizens, as every society has the Rights of it's members. And if we consider Freedom a Right, then...