While we were eating our lunch some day last week, An advertisement on the local radio was inviting the audience to give to an NGO, which brought me to think: Would it be relevant to start a “mandatory humanitarian service”, so that citizens would discover new horizons and be exposed to different cultures? Since the World we live in is full‑on about globalization, we may as well consider ourselves as citizens of the World and review this notion of border?
A year in our life spent on helping people rather than get ready to kill them; this doesn’t seem too bad of an idea if we consider globalization for society, rather than for economy or technology. This is even more true if we consider a planetary social unity is mandatory for the future of our environment (agricultural, economical, spacial…).
I’m not the first one with the idea, it would be good if that could be implemented more broadly though…