ABSTRACT
The biological integrity of individuals represents their health and fitness to exist and to persist through time, each according to their specific nature. Hence, if integrity is not openly accepted everywhere, if it is not incorporated openly in environmentally oriented and human rights legal instruments, as well as in national constitutions, then there must be some deep-seated conflict blocking that possibility. The capitalist enterprise, ultimately expanded into globalization, entails domination, not only of workers, as Marx had it, but beyond them. "The idea of Western salvation and redemption through its civilizing mission" always entails fostering and promoting the idea that somehow violence, directed to both the environment and to humans, is somehow justified, part of the political goals of Western affluent countries, but also totally ingrained as part of the culture of those Western nations. The aspect of self-determination that supports the defence of integrity is neither explicitly recognized nor even implicitly acknowledged in any international or domestic legal instrument.
