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Balancing Unity and Diversity
Answers to Rob Wheeler, Jean-Marc Flament, Marie-France d'Abboville
Karl-Heinz THIER
Monday, November 11, 2002 4:13 PM
°°° Abstract: Unity is safeguarded by openness to individuals and communities.
National parliaments have to compete with WP. Members of WP should come to
common values and attitudes rather than laws; laws and all their judicial
framework have to be established locally.°°°
Unity and diversity can be balanced if WP is kept open to representatives of
local communities who want to participate and who have made up their minds on
how to live. This applies mainly to the western world, because these people
hardly get an opportunity to reflect upon what they are doing.
Reconsidering their values and attitudes, the members of WP (MWP) should come to
common values and attitudes rather than laws; laws and all their judicial
framework have to be established locally.
A parliament of human community must neither be based on states nor on political
parties. I like the idea of communities of ideas, as long as they are not
idealistic acts, but realized in the everyday lives of their supporters. And we
have to admit: Democracy has not yet been realized by any state on this planet.
So MWP can do this. WP does not replace national parliaments, but it is their
serious competitor. And if people just do not go to national elections, it is
their vote. It would be a big jump if WP could start right from the charter of
the communities of ideas. Surface, subsoil, and aerial space should not be the
personal property of anybody. Happiness should not be related to the possession
of material goods or to the dominations of others.
The Charter of Human Responsibilities is ok except the paragraphs on market,
scientific research, and education. You see, as soon as trafficking,
competition, economic growth enter human affairs, they are distorted. There is
no prosperity through market mechanisms. In my view, there is no prosperity in
nature, only natural growth; there is no good, better, best growth. For natural
growth, everything is available and must not be bought. So collect the resources
which you need, and share them. There is no legitimate scientific research by
itself. Scientific research has to resolve human problems; otherwise it is
illegitimate. Do not rule education by any goal. Just let students decide, what
they want to study where when and by whom; treat coming generations with
dignity.
I agree with the Common Statement an world Democracy, the Basic Principles for
Governance, and the GPAN Preamble.
Regards from Karl-Heinz
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