You might as well believe that, nowadays, information is available, just about everywhere, and about nearly everything. Unfortunately this does not include that people are actually informed. Or, worse, wish to be informed.
For instance, our rights; people might know about their rights, or they might not. And if they actually are informed, they might as well fight, if their rights are denied, or they might not. Well, I would rather have people not being informed, because they will have a chance to become aware of their rights. But what about those who say: I am aware of what could be. But reality is a different matter.
Is that true? Do some rights only exist written on paper, and reality is a different matter? What about us? Is it not us who stand for this reality? Are we not the ones that put written rights to practice? The more questions are asked the less answer we get, but always more and more questions; and even this is common knowledge.
If you ask me, it is our personal responsibility - of each and every one of us - that we make work what has been given to us, or even won for us in a struggle, our rights. If we do not take this responsibility seriously, we are putting back any fight for any right. And we should be denied all of them.
Yes, this might sound harsh, but most of us, the majority, we claim to have democracy as our highest and most valuable political aim. Democracy, though, asks for people, for us, to be involved. No democracy can function, if it has only people that continuously say:
Oh, I'm not sure.
Yeah, might be.
I don't know about this, now.
Well, yeah, if you say so.
I haven't made my mind up, yet.
This may be so, but -
This is not my responsibility.
Oh, please, leave me out of this.
I might need to think about it.
I have no idea.
So, next time, when you have discussion about peoples' rights, even if your own rights are not concerned, you should cautiously regard yourself. Are you actively democratic in the literary sense of this term? Do you rule as part of your own people by taking your and the rights others seriously?
If not, go home, and claim nothing for yourself, not now and not in the future. You are a danger to democracy, because you are political fast food. The next dictator in line will have you for breakfast. Go home and stay there, until you will have learned to stand up and become a valid member of your society. We already have enough political free loaders in this world.