Many people fear that a world government would turn into a world tyranny. Therefore, it is important to have the world constitution based upon a principle that would prevent this from happening. Should this principle be the same as that of the U.S.? Unfortunately, personal freedom has degenerated into wasteful competition, license to plunder and pollute the environment, creation of a gulf between the haves and have-nots, neglect of the needy and handicapped, and the concentration of enormous wealth and power in a few hands. It is time to exalt a new principle.
Today there are many people in all nations who are concerned for the health of the environment, the conservation of other living species, for healing, educating, human rights, and filling human needs more than their concern for amassing riches, privilege, and power. These are the Carers. They are most unlikely to seek the harm of other human beings and the environment. So let us establish our world constitution on the principle of caring as contrasted with acquiring selfish personal and ethnocentric privileges and power.
Although these Carers are a small minority today, once they network and combine into a single persuasive force they will succeed in influencing a critical mass (influential minority) of the world's electorates to take steps toward establishing a caring world community.
What could it be like to live in a world in which caring dominates the economy and culture? Technologically possible, if enough of us so desired, is a society in which every person on earth would have adequate healthy food, appropriate clothing, shelter, the right and means to travel anywhere on earth without passports, visas, customs, etc., the means of communicating anywhere ( a large minority of humans already have this ability).
Weapons for killing and destruction would exist only in museums, and the thought that anyone could have been honored for wielding such weapons would be most difficult to believe. The environment would once again be healthy and sustainable, and large areas of the earth would harbor a great variety of wildlife. All the arts would flourish, most humans enjoying some form of participation.