I’d take a step back first.

This story stays with me …

Once upon a time, the United Nations wrote a draft for the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. They sent it to the great and the good, including Mohandas Gandhi, who said he could never support it. Rights, he said, have to be earned, not given. Better to focus on ‘universal responsibilities’ and leave the ‘rights’ to the lawyers. We all have universal responsibilities, starting with ‘ahimsa’ - do no harm to life.