Morally Speaking, All Earthlings Have Equal Rights On All The Earthly Resources. So, Should We Share Everything?

HIGH ALERT: VERY LENGTHY POST. NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PEOPLE WHO DON’T EVEN GIVE A RAT’S BEHIND ABOUT THE SOCIETY OR LIFE! 

First of all, Pak would like to thank Pam for setting up the trains of thought in the direction that has made me write this blogpost. Thanks a ton!

Human mind is a very amazing thing and that is very well evident if you look back and think logically about how we have evolved and how we have built things around us. When there was only one Kingdom, called the Kingdom Planate dominating all the land and water resources, the bacteria and single cell organism evolved to an extent to produce what is called as the Kingdom Animalia (Well, if you think that God created human beings, so be it. But we are not discussing theism and atheism here, and contradicting this statement based on present day science, I believe in GOD. Well, that is a different issue to talk about altogether!). Coming back to what I wanted to say, the animals then lived happily in the jungles, depending on the plants for food all the time. Later, those animals that eat other animals evolved out of them and there it goes, most of us now know the food chain already (being taught in EVS classes in childhood!). But even that is not the point. See, it is evident from the fact that the human mind is able to interlink things and hence divert to a lot of other topics from one and that is why it is amazing. There are so many abstract concepts that have been incepted by the human minds and whole new imaginary worlds have been created and integrated into the real and physical world. Take for instance the concept of Politics, Boundaries, Languages, Economics, etc.; there are so many of them of which the main topics of discussion here in this post would be Economics and Politics (Core interests of NBSS). 

Let us get very much humanitarian as of now, let us all flock together as starlings for a few moments. We are all human beings. Why should we have boundaries and discriminations? Why cannot we share everything equally? Why cannot we respect each other as human beings when after all we are dependent on each other? World would definitely be a lovely place to live in. You can go wherever you want without Visa, passport and the most important thing would be that there would be no ECONOMICS!!! If you think deeply into being one single group, what would happen to the abstract concept of ECONOMICS and all those who are working and Studying Economics for a livelihood? We need not worry about dollar rising or rupee falling. We need not even worry about prices, for we would have equal rights on anything and everything that is found on the earth as a resource. Anything that is found will then have to be divided into seven hundred billion shares and distributed worldwide. There would be no competition, no theft, and no greed (if at all they surface, they would be met with justice immediately). There would not be a need for people to launch themselves towards development. Even when you are studying, you separate, classify and then study things to take it in and because of the structure of the classifications, you tend to retain and understand concepts better. When everything is available, when there is no competition at all, we would all stand still, knowing not what to do! There would be no history, no invasions, no stories to tell, no purpose to live. We would all survive like the rest of the animals. We would work only when we are in need of something. Life would be so boring. How many of you graduates miss your college life? How many of you college people miss your school life? You loved those periods because you had so much to do and you had so many people to compete with. (Again putting stress on the kids, thrusting too much to study is a different topic and let us not deviate into that either!). Even if you went to school, you would not have a subject called History, geography or civics or Economics! All of us would have done Science!!! To think of that, could that have been fun if at all that was the way the world went right now? So, the essence of the entire paragraph is that, there would be so much less to do and to think of in this world if we all shared everything. But believe me; too much of anything is as bad as having a share on everything and that is what I will tell you about.

It is good to have about 400 odd countries competing with each other for resources actually. Only because of that race, every country and every single man is trying to add something as a contribution to the human society. An International patent might keep someone in the chair of monopoly for a maximum of twenty years. After that, when the patent is released, it is an opportunity for all the others to work on the patent more and make it much better, get a patent and get benefited. In that way, there is a need and as we all know, need is the mother of all creations. But need should never be a greed. There are exceptions too. If there is some item of luxury that gets patented, the patent owner can be greedy enough to sell at very high prices but if something as useful as a lifesaving drug should not be sold at a higher price and that is why they are excluded from patenting. In a recent press release that says that India would launch generic-medicine for all schemes very soon widely, it has been told that certain important lifesaving drugs and cancer treatment drugs that have indeed been patented have been infringed by the government itself to allow cheaper and much effective variants of the drugs to be made available in the market. If not for those moves, we would not have Metformin Hydrochloride tablets selling at less than one rupee per tablet and help even the poor to control their blood sugar levels. Well that is the sharing that we have facilitated. Now, the competition for the pharma companies is to strike a balance between marketing and selling cost of their products in the market. This will lead to the evolution of effective marketing strategies. If there was no competition at all, every farmer would grow all the fruits, vegetables and grains that his family would need in the land that he or she has and be happy with that. There would not be concepts like integrated farming, overproduce and export at all. Would not that be a mess?

It is true that Dr. MMS headed (so called) Indian government has decided to donate 10 billion dollars for the strengthening of the shattered Eurozone because our economy is dependent on it. This is called advanced development tactics. When you are in a battle for improvement where you want to raise your standards when compared to the competition, making your competition stronger is the wisest move you could make. If all your competition dies out, the development standards would come down and in fact, there would be nothing called as a standard. So, increasing the strength of your opponent would let your people work more and overcome the newly set standards. This is called “help and get helped in return” and this could go beyond no more.

Imagine a long twine you have. You made unnecessary knots between the ends of the thread. While making knots, it was an interesting process. But now, when you do not want the knots, the simplest solution is to directly cut away the region that is knotted. But to rejoin the two pieces of the thread, forming a single piece, you have no other choice but to knot them both together again but you will have a shorter thread. There is yet another option; you remove the knots one by one slowly in the reverse order to get the entire length of thread without the knots. So, the process of integrating all nations into one sharing unit can be compared to this. Every knot is a system of classification and segregation that we have been making and hence we must go step by step, bringing about equality in the society. We must integrate all the castes within a religion first. Then we should integrate the religions, then the region, then the country. At the maximum only so much knots can be removed, for when we do that, we would have equidistant knots, making the entire length of simple and regular thread look more like a necklace!

So, integrating the nation itself is a HERCULEAN task that would take at least another generation (33 years) to complete and that is the most we could achieve without collapsing the systems that we have built. Nations can provide the necessary and sufficient competition for development.

In fact, the idea of all Human beings flocking together is racism in one way. Due to our activities, there are so many species of plants and animals vanishing from the face of the earth! We should not have cell phones, for those towers harm the birds, we should not build houses and live under tree shades, for we are clearing forests the home for several animals….the list can go on. Everything has its own limitations but we could only come to a quasi-state where things are feasible and at the same time good for us. Human beings are born with selfishness and a brain that evaluates and classifies things immediately and hence we cannot live without it. Such concepts can only be printed and not followed! 

Awaiting debates and comments!