Michael Cooper

BELIEFS 1. All individual life forms, species and systems of life, and all humans are equally deserving of the abundance of a healthy, long, survivable life, lived in total wellness. 2. I agree with the United Nations Declaration of Universal Human Rights, as far as it goes, and suggest a Declaration of All Species Universal Rights 3. Anything that is designed to be devisive and exclusive and not universal and inclusive is misguided, unnatural and wrong. 4. We are a social animal, not a solitary animal, and we invite our own peril when we ignore this. 5. We must do everything that is healthy and natural to sustain all life forms, species and systems of life, and not one thing to end even one life, except where scientifically proven to be absolutely and undeniably necessary for human health, longevity, survival and wellness 6. Humanity, as a species, is far too self-agrandizing, self-absorbed, self-deluding, self-destructive and species-centric to the detriment of all species, including human 7. The day the human species stood upright and began to develop down the path it has taken was a mixed day for humanity and a bad day for the rest of the world. 8. Humanity, unindoctrinated, is communitarian. 9. Small is always more natural and more effective, in human groups of all kinds, than large 10. The only basic, real division within the human species is that some are female and some are male. 11. All human groups that grow larger than the expanded, extended family, local tribe/community will systemically fail individual humans and human families in some way. 12. The core family, the expanded, extended family, and the local community/tribe are the only healthy and natural human groups 13. Relationships between humans and all other species must be beneficial, natural, unmanipulated and voluntary to all species involved. 14. All humans have the need and desire to be truly full, self-sufficient and meaningfully contributing members within an interdependent social structure from puberty onward, with complete development and the ability toward totally independent and unsupervised participation at approximately age 25 15. The only truly healthy, natural primary "work" for an individual human is work that concretely, directly and intimately helps themselves and all of the members of their core family, expanded, extended family, and their primary community/tribe to meet all of their real, true needs for health, longevity, survival and wel