Quality of Life.  While Lifeis fundamental to survival and continued existence, it is the quality of life that makes life worth living and gives life meaning.  In a democracy, access to thequality of lifeis provided when a person not only has an equal right to life, but that person also has an equal right to growthas anyone else.  This is what makes immigrants so excited to move to a democracy — they seek freedom to experience the quality of life that makes life worth living — to control their own destiny and to explore their innate potential with the opportunities that a democratic nation provides. 

Growth is essential for improving our quality of life.  To be human is to strive to grow into our innate potential.  Our yearning to grow ensures that our innate potential becomes expressed and fulfilled, and collectively encourages an improving quality of life for everyone that results in social progress. 

This value ensures that the inherent potential of individuals, societies, and a civilization becomes expressed and fulfilled, which encourages an improving quality of life for everyone.  Without growth, there would be no possibility of social evolution and social sustainability.  Once the population of our global civilization is balanced with our planet’s natural resources, then growth has everything to do with improving the quality of life of individuals, rather than the quantitative growth of populations to support economic growth.  Until then difficult moral decisions will have to be made that move our communities and societies toward that balance. 

Equalityis inherent in the value of life.  We give equal value to each individual, and we would seek to provide more equitable opportunity to every individual to develop their innate potential, as we would our own.  Even those with less potential than others have equal value to live life to explore, develop, and express the potential they do have.  Without equality, life is a competition where the resources of one’s living-potential is squandered in competitive warlike existence.  Then there is no moral equity available.