I yearn for the day when we will have a Bill of Duties to go with our Bill of Rights

I have no doubt that the 20th century will go down in history as the century of rights: voting rights, workers' rights, civil rights, human rights, privacy rights, disability rights, and many more. With these rights in place, I can only hope that the 21st century will someday go down in history as the century of duties: civic duties, human duties, fiduciary duties, religious duties, environmental duties, and duties to future genrations. I yearn for the day when we will have a Bill of Duties to go with our Bill of Rights. As world resources become scarcer, and as all nations, tongues, and peoples become more vulnerably interdependent, the idea of individual rights will necessariliy change. How many rights can the world support without all people assuming commensurate duties? The point is not to take rights away but to recognize the duties that are inherent in those very privileges.

John W. Welch, 2011

https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/john-w-welch/thy-mind-o-man-must-stretch/

This article touches on the above theme and might be worthy of further exploration. https://www.newamerica.org/political-reform/reports/new-politics-beyond-2020/communitarianism-20/ 

Mormon thought ... privileges fullness, abundance, completeness, and all that the Father has

Mormon thought, in contrast, privileges fullness, abundance, completeness, and all that the Father has, even if that means that Mormon life becomes joyously overloaded or torn by competing pressures that pull, stretch, and expand us in many ways. This may produce epiosdes of cognitive dissonance, social quandaries, mystery and uncertainty, but if forced to choose, Mormon thought will always prefer openness over closedness, boldly inviting further growth, progression, and - fortunately for us in academia - further questions.

John W. Welch, 2011

https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/john-w-welch/thy-mind-o-man-must-stretch/

"It is better to be a human being dissatsified than a pig satsified"

 OK, I've decided that this will be my place for all sorts of quotes, not just "Mormon Quotes." I doubt anyone else will ever find this blog anyway. So here is a place to put all sorts of quotes.

"It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low, has the greatest chance of having them fully satisfied; and a highly endowed being will always feel that any happiness which he can look for, as the world is constituted, is imperfect. But he can learn to bear its imperfections, if they are at all bearable; and they will not make him envy the being who is indeed unconcsious of the imperfections, but only because he feels not at all the good which those imperfections qualify.

"It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatsifeid than a food satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinon, it is only because they only know their own side of the questions."

John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/79033-it-is-indisputable-that-the-being-whose-capacities-of-enjoyment

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268115002838