In the innate worth of the individual,
The parts
innate worth of the individual,
Each person has value simply on the basis of existence, having both significance and impact as a free agent.
Innate
The idea is that simply being is a basis of value. Behaviour, wealth, reputation, political position or social status are secondary to other people recognising you as being of value.
Worth
Value or worth drives attitudes and actions both within a person and from a community to each single person.
Individual
Every person has unique genetics, unique personality and a unique mind. No two people, even identical twins, are the same, so each one has a right to be respected for what they are, not just who they are.
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The whole idea
Each person has a right to claim a distinct and separate place in the national community. Value is a human attribute, not earned, not granted, but recognised.
The basic human characteristics of creativity, relationship and responsibility are to be nurtured and protected at every stage of human life from conception to natural death.
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Biblical origins
We are created in the image of God, male and female as distinct biological organisms.
“I am fearfully and wonderfully made, knit together in my mother’s womb” (Psalm 139).
The unique characters of humans originate in the nature of our creator.
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The moral imperative
It became obvious to me in my career as a school teacher and university lecturer that the schooling system and teacher training institutions perpetuate the root cause of the conflicts shown regarding the nature of humanity.
That root cause is the humanist behaviour model of psychology, which includes child psychology and educational psychology, subjects that I studied in my academic career.
That entire system regards people as biochemical and mechanistic models that can be manipulated and managed behaviourally.
It is entirely natural and understandable that anyone raised in that psychological environment will behave consistently within that worldview and see people as no different from animals.
Our legal and judicial system operates on the same model, which is why prisons are now termed “correctional centres”.
It would be entirely consistent to rename schools as “behaviour modelling centres”.
The man who is charged with sex offences against minors may well argue that he is acting consistently with the behaviourist education model in which he was raised.
Follow the science. Our genetics determines our bodily structure, function and sex. The sex chromosomes are X and Y, with females as XX and males as XY. Nobody gets to choose their genetics. Nobody gets to change their genetics.
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Application
Abortion
Each of us is a unique individual person from the moment of conception. The basic biology of life is that a woman sheds an egg from an ovary, to be fertilised in a space that is technically outside the mother’s body, being within the fallopian tube. That newly fertilised egg, now called a zygote, has chromosomes from both father and mother in a new unique combination, a different person. The zygote implants into the wall of the uterus and grows a placenta to enable exchange of food, water and gases from mother to child. There is a physical gap between the two, called the placental gap, so that the baby is maintained as a separate person for the entire pregnancy. The mother has the right to control her own body and refuse control by government, doctors or others. However the unborn baby is a separate person and has his or her own rights, recognised by legislation in various States and nations. That legal status continues after birth and through until natural death.
Defence of the person
Abortion is to take the life of an unborn person.
No person has any right over the life of another person, so murder is an offence in our culture.
Euthanasia, whether voluntary or imposed, is to take the life of a person.
Suicide is generally regarded as unnatural, as is reflected in the conditions of many life insurance contracts.
Slavery
In Western Civilisation individual value and dignity is the basis of freedom from control, coercion or ownership as a slave.
Sexual identity and gender
From the beginning people have been male and female, with different and complimentary characters. Surgery and behaviour modification have no effect on the cellular level genetic composition of XX or XY.
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The view and values of the Left of politics
A person is regarded as a biochemical machine with no innate value or dignity.
A behaviourist view of the person is that each individual has two drivers of behaviour, being genetic inheritance and environmental influence. Thus all human behaviour is determined in the past. People can be trained and conditioned to behave, think and feel, so to live with learned behaviour.
Therefore no person can be held responsible for their own actions.
That is the basis of common victim mentality, in that each of us is merely victim of our genetics and our past environment, with no responsibility for our own behaviour.
People tend to be valued on the basis of performance, wealth and beauty.
Physical beauty is the ‘gold coin’ of human worth, regardless of character or personality.
Success in music, arts, sport and politics is the ‘silver coin’ of human value, being the basis of fame and praise.
Successful performance in those fields can create wealth, which itself is taken as a measure of personal value.
Moral values in relation to a person are functional and relativistic.
Most other human cultures and societies take people as slaves, because human personal value is based on performance or other attributes.
Professor Anthony Dillen, himself with some Aboriginal ancestry, makes this comment in relation to the Yoorrok Justice Commission Final Report (2025):
“Quoting from the Yoorrook summary report:
“Self-determination means transferring decision-making power, authority, control and resources to First Peoples … so that [they] can make decisions about the things that affect them.”
But isn’t self-determination a good thing? Don’t all Australians have the right to self-determination? Well, it depends on your definition. It is good when applied at the level of the individual, where it means making decisions or taking actions that you believe to be in your best interest. For example, you and I may decide we want to get healthy, but ultimately, we each decide for ourselves how best to reach that goal. You might choose going to the gym, while I might choose to walk and swim.
At the group level, self-determination typically means members of the group making decisions on behalf of, and for, other group members. The Yoorrook report calls it a “collective right.” For Aboriginal Australians, such an approach might have some merit if they were an homogenous group whose members had vastly different needs from non-Aboriginal Australians. However, none of this true. Aboriginal Australians are very diverse in nature and have the same fundamental human needs as non-Aboriginal Australians.
In the case of Aboriginal people where the Yoorrook Commission applies self-determination in a collective sense, it is actually separatism. That is, Aboriginal Australians are kept separate from other Australians, perhaps not in a physical sense, but in terms of what services are required to address their needs and how they access them. All this does is encourage an ‘us-and-them’ mentality.”
https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/aborigines/one-law-please-for-all-australians/
Gender wars
Monash University Professor Roz Ward has explained that the purpose of the “Safe Schools” programme was to break down the family unit as being the basis of our society.
Value of a person
A range of legislated values demonstrate a very different view of the person.
Abortion devalues life that begins at conception.
The child and childhood are devalued by institutional childcare.
Relationships are devalued by ease of divorce.
Personal dignity as a biological reality is devalued by gender fluidity and trans-genderism.
Euthanasia at any age or stage of life devalues individual dignity and value of a person.
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