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A Civil Society Bill of Rights

I reserve the right to be opinionated, to on everything.
speak, to strongly hold ideas, ideals or And I freely extend the same right to
ideologies, and to advocate them. you.
I reserve the right to make truth claims, ***
to hold positions even if others may take Somewhere, sometime, someone decided that
offense. But I will not abuse others. public debate and politics meant you had
I reserve the right to be idealistic, to assert you knew everything, that your
optimistic, not cynical or jaded, nor worldview had to be simple, complete and
comfortably relativistic or postmodern. perfectly ordered, and that everything
Others are free to be any of these. your opponents thought and said was just
I reserve the right to believe in things spin and lies. Well the world is not
for which there is more hope than simple, and my views on it are not simple
evidence. either. I am passionate about some
I reserve the right to be wrong. things, interested in many things, and
I reserve the right to experiment with often ambivalent or conflicted over other
ideas that I am not sure about. I reserve things. It is a shame that more of our
the right to more strongly advocate ideas public figures do not freely assert the
than I actually feel. right to change their minds, to disagree
I reserve the right to change my mind as respectfully, to sometimes be wrong, or
the world changes. to sometimes be silent. Silence from
I reserve the right to hold ambiguous, pundits and politicians - wouldn't that
complex and sometimes contradictory ideas be a change!
or ideals in complicated circumstances. I This bill of rights is fundamentally
have not figured everything out; I never about the purposes of civil society and
will. civil discourse and public debate. You
I reserve the right to advocate policies would probably write a slightly different
in one time or situation, and oppose set of rights for yourself in order to
similar policies in other times or frame, develop and express your ideas.
situations, especially if those policies But that is exactly the point. We may all
- upon testing them - turn out to be speak. By speaking and writing and
ineffective or damaging. publishing, we grapple with the world and
I reserve the right to compromise to its knotted problems. If the world's
achieve good, but not perfect, solutions problems were simple, then smart people
to bad problems. would have solved them a long time ago.
I reserve the right to hold ideas that do The world's problems, conflicts and
not fit orthodox ideological molds. I tragedies are fraught with ambiguity and
refuse to be defined by others' differing perspectives.
categories or philosophies or terms. The power of civil society is the
I reserve the right to be a hypocrite - democratic power of multitudes speaking,
if what you mean by hypocrisy is to discussing, testing and trying ideas. As
really believe in something and advocate one set of policies proves itself less
it, but not always be able to live up to effective, we try others. Some of the
it. proposed ideas, policies or solutions are
I reserve the right to disagree with you, bound to be wrong-headed, or foolish, or
to disagree with my friends, to disagree just not work. In that case I hope I will
with anyone (maybe even myself in part). disagree. If they were my ideas, my
I reserve the right to voice that speech, or my advocacy, then I take
disagreement openly, but respectfully, by responsibility for them. Then I may admit
speaking energetically, incisively, I was wrong and change my mind. In many
sometimes passionately, but not cases, we will simply have to disagree.
abusively. I reserve the right to have opinions and
I reserve the right to sometimes be passionately advocate them, to believe in
silent - to not have an opinion or an idealistic positions, to sometimes be
answer, to not advocate a position, to wrong, to change my mind, to compromise,
not define myself, to not assert to disagree with others, and to sometimes
expertise. I am not obliged to weigh in be silent.




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