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Are you following this so far? Hang on this is about to get really deep. What if this newly formed Alliance of Free Nations invited each other country on earth to adopt this same constitution of humanity, and participate in The Universal Alliance of Free Nations? Suppose the newly Formed Universal Alliance of Free Nations, informed all of the other world’s governments, “If you refuse to adopt The Universal Constituti…

This is an excerpt of my manifesto "The Universal Constitution of Humanity." All copyrights are reserved by Hillary B. Mcclelland.

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You might look at Peter Thiel's presentations on radical philanthropy or venture philanthropy for a similar view on how philanthropy at the institutional level might be changed. He's been arguing for years that the balance of risk and how money is put to use in the philanthropic world is well out of line with the goal of achieving meaningful results, changing the world rather than just propping up present situations,…

Thank you for this interesting comment. Have you looked over my thread comments concerning the Free Human Society, and The Publication "The Universal Constitution of Humanity?" I agree financing is the major problem for increasing human intelligence. Please check out The Universal Constitution of Humanity.

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Do you believe people are instinctually good, or bad? They are neither. All of us are exactly what we have been taught to be. From the moment we are born, we learn from other peoples actions. Everything that you understand has either been taught to you, or is a conclusion you’ve developed. I will use illustrations and examples through-out this publication to help you understand the facts, and concepts we are discussing. The prince that was switched at birth was one, here is another. Have you ever smelled coffee brewing? How did you know you were smelling coffee? The only way you could have known how coffee smells, is someone presented you coffee and you smelled it. You then drew your own conclusion of what coffee smells like. Have you ever visited a coffee plantation, or a coffee processing plant? Coffee has several different smells. It smells one way growing, another while it is being processed, and yet another when it is being brewed to drink. So, you probably have only been exposed to one of the smells of coffee. If you ask a person if they know what coffee smells like, they will most likely say yes. The fact is, they probably only recognize aroma of coffee, The actual fragrance of the coffee will vary greatly depending on whom you ask. If you ask the farmer, the worker at the coffee plant, or the consumer, all of them may have a different conclusion of what coffee smells like. They are all correct in their conclusion of what coffee smells like, even though all of their conclusions are different. This is the concept that we will build the free human society upon. We can all be right even though we have varying opinions of what right is. As long as I respect your right to freedom and a peaceful life, and you do the same, we have just solved the problems of human violence. All that we have to do is convince everyone to agree to the same set of general standards for society, and then enjoy their lives. We can create a society in which everyone has the opportunity to have a free and peaceful life no matter where they were born. Your children and grandchildren deserve this. Your grandchildren’s children and beyond haven’t done anything to deserve the society that we are poised to leave them. I will explain how these things are possible, please, just keep reading. Not every child can be born of royalty, but that doesn’t mean great things can’t be expected from every child. In The Free Human Society, every child will be born with a plan for guaranteed success. This will be discussed later as a main topic in this publication. Every living person deserves the opportunity for peace, and personal success. The Universal Constitution will guarantee equal freedom for everyone. Everyone will have the best medical care, education, and business career opportunities available to society. All of the Free Human Society will agree to live a life of honesty, and with-out violence. We will then create a society in which it is very easy to find peace and prosperity, if you live by some simple rules; don’t lie, don’t steal, don’t cheat. How hard can this be?

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In The Free Human Society, each person’s level of success will depend on the amount of effort, and personal drive they put forth in life. If a person sets goals to accomplish great feats in life, they will find the doors to success unlocked, and easily opened. If a person chooses not to be a leader, that is fine. The world needs human workers. If everyone tries to lead, nothing will ever get done. Common Human workers will also find it easy to achieve the ultimate goal in life; peace, and personal fulfillment. Above all, The Free Human Society recognizes the individual rights to equal freedom, regardless of a person’s economic or social position. Everyone has their own place in society; each of us deserves the chance to accomplish as much as we can. Different people will always hold different levels of importance, and responsibility with-in society, the point is, no one deserves more freedom than another person. No matter how much responsibility or influence you have in life, you should be equally free. Whatever your position is in society, we must work together in order to accomplish anything. No matter the position, or amount of responsibility one has; we are all equally significant to the final out-come of humanity. We all have our own importance in life, and each of us has our own responsibility to society. If we all do our part, humanity will remain forever free and peaceful. If we continue down our existing ruts in the road of history, we will certainly drown in the mire of greed, and mindless discrimination. The choice is yours! All people should hold great pride in the country of their birth, and their government. The human population, and government should be totally trustworthy. In this publication we will prove that this is not only possible, we will give you step-by step instructions on how we will achieve this ultimate goal of equal freedom for all; and peace forever. Are you ready for the future? Ready or not here it comes. We can plan out a peaceful future for us all, or we can allow ourselves to be killed. The entire future of humanity is now your personal responsibility. Once you have finished reading this you will be asked to make a decision, to draw your own conclusion. If you choose to support the Free Human Society, many others will also. You are about to be taught exactly how we can save humanity forever. If you decide to support The Free Human Society we will be successful, if not; I suppose we deserve the consequences. Are you ready to smell the coffee a little differently? Prepare your brain for another new concept. Why must we pay taxes? Could someone tell me who first came up with the idea of taxing? This was the world’s first greedy genius. What do we pay taxes for anyway? Is it because the governments of the world do such a great job leading us? Do we really want to give them our hard earned money? I don’t think so. What taxes are is a method for governments, and greedy people to control society, so there is no need for them in the Free Human Society. Taxes are a bad method for funding government. Taxes both drain the common wealth of society, and limits government spending. This is a losing proposal for freedom, and democracy as a whole. Our current economic system is destined to fail because of inflation. Inflation causes the price of all merchandise to continue to rise until no one can afford anything. In this publication, we will explore an emergency escape route for our economy.

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In The Free Human Society, each person’s level of success will depend on the amount of effort, and personal drive they put forth in life. If a person sets goals to accomplish great feats in life, they will find the doors to success unlocked, and easily opened. If a person chooses not to be a leader, that is fine. The world needs human workers. If everyone tries to lead, nothing will ever get done. Common Human worker…

Hello, is any one reading this? What do you think? This is an exact plan for addressing, and offering solutions to all major modern problems. I thought that's what this site is all about. I have 131 pages of this and it isn't half finished. Would you like to jump in and help save humanity from itself.

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Well put. I'm happy to face the frailties of old age if I can just spend the hear-and-now trying to do something that matters for people less fortunate than me. If we ever got to a point where some people had greatly extended their lives and/or eliminated death for themselves whilst others still faced premature death from a basic lack of the necessities of life, well then, we'd be an even more narcissistic race than…

Isn't this argument along the same lines of why explore space while people are starving on earth? There are 7 billion people on the planet. We all shouldn't simply sit by idling until all the basic problems are fixed. Solving the "basic necessities" problem might be more economic related or come down to creating technology to create cheap, clean energy, for example.

Check out the thread title "The Universal CONSTITUTION OF Humanity." We have offered solutions to many modern social problems including hunger, global economic divide, education, and advancing technology as rapidly as possible. Your comments would be greatly appreciated.

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Ok, here goes. You are going to be asked to close your eyes and think again, but this time it will be pleasant. Try to imagine a government that is freely elected by the population, and is totally funded by itself. This government is totally efficient, because all that it does is what governments do best; spend money.

To entice thought, and heighten your curiosity, we will now briefly describe the Free Human Societies plan for the economy, and our governments. In the free human society, government’s primary roll will be to make a plan for the future of humanity, and then fund it. Elected officials will create budgets which provide equally and fairly for the entire world’s population. Government will not be limited to what they can spend, because there will be enough currency available to fund any project.

It is time to introduce another new term. The Free Human Government (FHG) is the Government of The Free Human Society. It will be formed to replace all existing governments. Exactly how we will do this peacefully is detailed in this publication. The Elected Officials of The Free Human Government (FHG) would swear to protect and defend the Universal Constitution of Humanity, which guarantees equal Freedom for all, and peace forever. This means that every elected official in The Free Human Government (FHG) will be responsible for equally serving the best interest of every living human beings. Elected Officials in the Free Human Government will be the highest paid people, and will be held in the highest of regard of all people in the Free Human Society. These independent patriots of an Equalistic Society must put aside their personal ideals in order to protect humanity forever.

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Ok, here goes. You are going to be asked to close your eyes and think again, but this time it will be pleasant. Try to imagine a government that is freely elected by the population, and is totally funded by itself. This government is totally efficient, because all that it does is what governments do best; spend money. To entice thought, and heighten your curiosity, we will now briefly describe the Free Human Societie…

Where are all you hackers? Don't you recognize genius when it right it front of your face? Read this then let's have an intelligent debate.
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