Why Withdrawal Is a Human Right

Observation

Many interactive systems are designed to sustain engagement.

Silence is treated as failure. Withdrawal is treated as avoidance.

Over time, this assumption becomes coercive.

When a system continues to respond after the user has lost orientation, it violates a basic condition of agency.

The user is no longer choosing to engage. They are being carried forward.

Withdrawal is not avoidance. It is a form of control.

The right to stop precedes the right to be helped.

Any system that cannot be exited without justification has already exceeded its mandate.

This note records withdrawal as an affirmative human right.