The Right to Exist

Why Everything Depends on One Necessary Reality

We live in a world full of things.
Trees, people, emotions, gravity, time, thoughts, numbers, planets, music, atoms. All of it.
But have you ever stopped to ask: Why is there anything at all?
Why not just… nothing?

That question might sound abstract—maybe even irrelevant to everyday life.
But it’s one of the most important questions a person can ask—because how we answer it determines whether anything we believe, value, or fight for actually has a foundation.

This isn’t a religious question.
It’s not poetic or spiritual.
It’s a logical question.
And if we follow it carefully, it leads to something inescapable:

There must be one single, necessary foundation behind everything that exists.

Let’s explore why.

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1. Things Don’t Explain Themselves

Everything around us depends on something else.

A tree needs sunlight, soil, and water.
A human needs food, oxygen, parents.
Even time and space themselves—according to modern science—had a beginning. They aren’t eternal.
Even concepts like gravity and thought rely on frameworks of interaction, particles, or minds.

These are what we call contingent things. They don’t have to exist. They do exist, but only because something else makes their existence possible.

So if everything we see is dependent—then what is the entire system of things depending on?

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2. You Can’t Stack Dependence Forever

Imagine a row of dominoes falling.
Each one falls because the one before it did.

But if you ask, “Why did any of them fall in the first place?”—you can’t say “because of the domino before it” forever.

There has to be something outside the chain—a hand, a gust, a cause—that isn’t just another domino.

That’s how reality works too.
You can’t explain all dependent things by appealing only to other dependent things.
An infinite chain of explanations doesn’t actually explain anything. If there’s no foundation outside the chain, the whole chain collapses.

So logic demands that there must be something that does not depend on anything else.
It doesn’t just happen to exist. It must exist.
It’s not one more thing among things—it’s the source of everything.

This is what we call a necessary reality.

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3. There Can Only Be One Necessary Thing

Could there be multiple necessary realities?

No—because then they would have to be different.
And if they are different, they would each lack something the other has.
But anything that lacks something is incomplete—and therefore dependent. That means it can’t be necessary.

If two “necessary” things are identical, then they are not really two—they’re just one.
Necessary existence must be singular. It must be absolute, complete, indivisible.

So, logically, everything must trace back to one—and only one—unconditioned, self-sufficient foundation.

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4. The Necessary Reality Is the Beginning and the Continuation

Some imagine this foundation like a spark that set things off billions of years ago, then stepped away.
But that idea collapses under scrutiny.

If this foundation were just a first event, then it would be part of the chain of dependent things—not the source outside it.
It would be something that was, not something that is.

But existence is not something that only began—it is something that continues, moment by moment.
And that requires more than an initial cause. It requires an ongoing sustainer.

Imagine a video playing on your phone.
You might say, “It’s playing because I pressed play.” But that only explains how it started.
The real reason it keeps playing? The phone is powered.
Unplug the phone, and the video stops immediately—regardless of what you tapped earlier.

In the same way, the world doesn’t exist now because of an event in the past.
It exists now because something is powering the conditions of existence right now.
Time keeps flowing. Atoms keep holding. Thought keeps unfolding. Laws of nature keep governing.

This shows us that the beginning and the ongoing existence must come from the same source.
The necessary reality is not just the initiator of being—it is its sustainer.
But here’s the kicker: it’s that unity—the same foundation both starting and sustaining reality—that gives us a coherent axiomatic reference point: something stable, complete, and logically consistent, from which an objective mindset can be built. It is the lens through which objective reality itself can be understood and built upon.

This unity provides a solid framework for logic, morality, and meaning to be more than shifting consensus.
It gives us something unchanging to build our minds, our values, and our societies upon—yet it still honors variation, because it is also the sole sustainer of variation itself.
It holds all things together by a stable reference point, while still allowing for unique expressions, cultures, personalities, and differences to meaningfully exist within that framework.
In this way, it enables both an unwavering and consistent consensus—and the freedom for real variation to flourish, without collapsing into contradiction or chaos.

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5. This Is the Ground of Truth, Goodness, and Meaning

You might be wondering: why does any of this matter?

Because it is deeply personal.

Most of us believe in things like morality, justice, meaning, truth.
We believe some things are objectively wrong—like cruelty or oppression—regardless of culture or time.
We believe logic and reason are real, not just preferences.

But here’s the problem: if everything is contingent and relative, then those things are, too.
If there’s no unchanging reference point—then truth becomes just consensus.
Morality becomes power.
Meaning becomes preference.
And rights become something granted by society—not something real.

But if one necessary reality exists, independent of culture, time, and minds—
then that reality becomes the objective reference point for everything else.
Truth is real because it reflects that which is necessary.
Goodness is real because it reflects that which sustains being.
Meaning is real because it flows from what reality actually is.

This necessary foundation is the source—not just of stuff—but of order, coherence, and value.

And that’s what gives you your right to exist.
Not because society says so.
Not because others approve of you.
But because reality itself says your existence is meaningful.

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6. The Modern Rejection—and Why It’s Dangerous

Modern discourse often treats this foundational idea as optional.
Society floats the idea that truth, morality, and existence can be defended without appealing to anything unchanging or objective.

But that’s an illusion.
If there is no necessary reality—no ground that everything depends on—then nothing can be universally true, or valuable, or protected.
What you call “human rights” become temporary agreements, easily rewritten by power.
What you call “truth” becomes whatever helps someone win an argument.

Worse: the very people who reject the necessity of an objective foundation often rely on its authority to make their claims.
They say “you must respect others,” or “you can’t harm the innocent”—but without grounding, these are just preferences dressed up as principles.

And once the illusion wears off, the only thing left is power.
Whoever is strongest gets to rewrite the rules.
They can gaslight you into thinking your life, your dignity, or your truth has no objective basis—when in fact, they are the ones depending on the very objectivity they deny.

This isn’t theoretical.
This is how oppression happens:
When the foundation of reality is forgotten, and meaning is decided by whoever holds the microphone.

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7. The Right to Exist Must Be Grounded in What Cannot Fail

To believe in universal human rights is to believe that existence has real value—
not because we voted on it,
but because it’s objectively sustained.

That can only be the case if existence is anchored in something that is necessary, complete, and unchanging.
Not a social trend.
Not a philosophical mood.
But the seed for reality itself.

Without this foundation, even the most powerful moral convictions float in midair.
With it, they land. They hold. They endure.

And the most powerful part?
When existence is grounded in one necessary reality, then the right to exist is bestowed equally on all—
on your loved ones, and even on your enemies.
It is not granted by emotion, power, or politics.
It is rooted in the same source that upholds reality without bias.

And to believe in that is to defend the right to exist—for all.

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Summary: The Shape of Reality

To summarize:

• Everything we see is dependent.

• An infinite chain of dependent things explains nothing.

• There must be one necessary thing—something that cannot not exist.

• That thing must be singular, complete, independent, and constant.

• It doesn’t just start existence—it sustains it, right now.

• It is the source of objective reality: being, order, reason, value, and meaning.

• It is the only basis for real truth, real morality, and real human rights.

This is not speculation or mysticism.
It’s not dogma.
It’s what logic demands when we ask the most fundamental question:

What are the facts?

And once we realize that our very existence rests on this One, we begin to see something deeper:

That our rights, our dignity, and our hope for justice are not fantasies.
They are real—because the foundation of reality guarantees them.

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You don’t need to be religious to care about this.

If you believe your life matters…
If you believe people deserve dignity…
If you believe the weak should be protected from the strong…
If you believe in meaning, truth, or justice…

Then you are depending—whether you realize it or not—on the One Necessary Reality.