The world needs understanding, not wars 

 
The world celebrated last week the election of Barack Obama as the new president of the United States, whose ascension to this important role is not only new because of his skin color, but also for his humble origin, disengaged from the economical groups which traditionally take turns in leading that nation.

In Brazil we also had elections to choose the leaders of our cities and, once more, the topic ethics in politics was called upon, and the electors were divided into those who understand ethics is fundamental in any subject, especially when it comes to choosing our new governors, and those who think differently.

This question could be easily answered with reasoning.

Supposing that we should choose the syndic of a building where 30 couples live. One of the candidates has already deviated resources of the condo in a previous occasion. The expenses showed by him were not real. The repairs by him over overpriced. Summing up, he got rich at the expense of the building residents. We ask: shall we vote for him again? Is it wise to repeat a negative experience once lived?

Well, the leader of a city, state or nation is, in fact, someone who, among other things, plays the role of a syndic.

Once he is not honest, gives no importance to ethics, of course he is not suitable for the role and, evidently, could not even be accepted as a candidate.

In a study published in the book Posthumous Works, Kardec wrote about the aristocracy and foresaw that the world would get one day, by choosing their leaders, to the so-called intellect-moral aristocracy, in which, beside ethics, the candidate also gathers enough intellectual qualities to the well-functioning of his roles.

In the American case, the hope given by the election of Barack Obama comes, in part, from this feeling, it means, that, among all the hypotheses formulated by the parties, he is the closest to the ideal one foreseen by Kardec, not only in the intellectual aspect, but mainly in the moral one.

The world we live in, in spite of its remarkable moral inferiority, cannot afford to solve its problems with the power of weapons.

Time has gone when we tried to put into practice the motto by the revolutionary French – Liberty, Equality, Fraternity -, but, for this to happen, it is needed, as in every human undertaking, that people understand that the measure is revealed important and the first step is taken.