Freedom to Choose

With more than seven billion humans on this planet, living on seven continents as citizens of hundreds of independent nations, and subscribing to thousands of philosophies it is difficult to see how we can ever get all humans to live the way that every other species on the planet lives; committed to the welfare of the species rather than to the welfare of their parochial group. Yet, this is absolutely necessary for the future well-being of our species. Crisis after crisis highlights that fact.

We need to get everyone on the same page so that the money now being wasted on military budgets and standing armies can be redirected to development projects. The first step to getting us all on the same page is to teach universally that our much vaunted freedom of choice is not freedom to choose our behavior, which is the way we exercise it, but the freedom to choose which group we belong to, which is the way nature enforces it.

This method is superior to other attempts at defusing the tension among humans in that it does not require anyone to make any significant changes in their philosophy, nor does it tell them what to do. There is no call for change nor a call for compromise, and nothing stands in the way of peace than our resistance to change or compromise. It accomplishes our goal, and we all desire a world without the threat of war, by utilizing the power of nature that produced a thriving ecosystem into which humans finally emerged. In other words it produces the results nature would have had without human interference. In nature, each entity performs in a certain way because of the group to which it belongs. It is not the behavior of entities that determines the nature of a species but the species that determines how members of that species behaves.