We are a single species separated only by 50,000 years

Posted on May 8, 2012 in Global Law Politics | 0 comments

We are a single species separated only by 50,000 years. The dominant and most consistent theme of our humanity is self interests. While aggression may be intergral to our nature, we as a species should not tolerate unbridled killing and torture of our brethern. Nevertheless, on the world stage, a majority of societies still literally kill and imprison those who are in their way, advocate or hold different values or religious ideologies or merely disagree with that which particular governments, corporations or even individuals in authority want or decree.

Governments should and may manage their individual societies. Local governments should be able to manage and police their local populations. However, the concept of national “sovereignty”, when considered in conjunction with ” human rights”, is an obsolete concept. Governments at all levels worldwide should guarantee that which is “inalienable”. The United States Declaration of Independence defined it broadly as ” life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness”. That would seem to be a reasonable starting point. Inherent in those precepts would be freedom from slavery & physical oppression.

We must evolve intellectually, ethically and morally from the now primary and accepted goals of self-agrandisement, preservation of power and accumulation of assets. There is a desperate need for a present day Code of Hameradi, Justinian Code, Ten Commandments. World society would seem to require a centralized world government with a clear set of values that apply to all mankind, regardless of their location on the globe, religious aspirations or inherient wealth.

These concepts appear to have first been seriously advocated by Woodrow Wilson. His League of Nations concept was enlightened. Unfortunately, the majority of the mankind, dictators and despots were not ready to accept the idea in 1918. Nor still today are the majority of nations ready despite the infra-structure of the United Nations. The United States could better use its global power and dominance, not to engage in wars of economic aggression, by contributing its police powers to the United Nations and the World Court.