With the infinite number of issues that the world faces today, it is difficult to identify a single topic as its most pressing dilemma. Therefore, I believe it prudent to dig into the basics of society, for progress is unattainable without covering the fundamentals. The most rudimentary aspect of society, and I mean rudimentary when I say this, is that humans exist. Hence, without humans, there is no society. Accordingly, the question at hand is why do we continue to kill each other?
Obviously, my position is that the most important issue in world politics today is that of human rights. Even after all that we have achieved, people in Darfur continue to be massacred in their own homes for the seventh consecutive year. Congolese women face the risk of rape by rebel groups during their systematic raid of Eastern Congo (Lederer, Canadian Press). Homosexual couples are denied marriage rights, based solely on their difference in sexual orientation. All these human rights violations, and the many more that exist, prove our lack of progress in the world. I don’t believe we can have complete pride in our other accomplishments as a global society because we must first establish human rights as an international commonality. With that, we will be able to reach out to all parts of the world and improve as a whole.
With industrialization, modernization, and globalization we learned how to utilize our resources, become more efficient, and interact with the world around us. I am not denying that these are improvements to society. But while we still lack the ability to have a universal sense of respect for one another, is there any way we can completely industrialize, modernize, or globalize? The answer is no.
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