Is the individual responsible for world peace?

"Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves" Friedrich Nietzsche

The late United Airlines pilot, Charles C. Dent, (d. 1994) discussed the individual and corporate responsible one has towards world peace.

I never met Captain Dent, nor do I know any specific details about his position, which later became a section of the United Nations, United Nations We Believe, UNWB, which became the Business Council for the United Nations (BCUN).

Who decides one's responsibility to a stranger in another country? Does someone have the right to decide I have a responsibility to people who are fighting in another country? How can I have any responsibility if I have no authority?

The advocates of this policy are trying to promote socialist policies and centralized planning. They are saying I should give my authority, my responsibility, to a committee, or some bureaucrat I have never met. They will be sure to carry out my responsibility, as long as I give them my authority (power).

Thank you, but no, I would rather keep my power, and my authority.

As to being responsible for someone else, I will decide if someone is worthy of my time and energy.

Isabel Paterson wrote "God Of The Machine".   One chapter is "The Humanitarian With The Guillotine" in which Paterson  shows that most of the harm in the world has been done by people with good intentions.   Power and the desire to control others corrupts.

Charles Tolleson
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"Mrs. Roosevelt was not the only one thinking about the UN and what it could mean for the American public after World War II. In 1956, in the cockpit of a United Airlines DC-6, Captain Charles C. Dent was expressing concern about world events to his co-pilot, Richard "Rip" Munger. In the dark days of the Cold War, nuclear devastation-and WWIII-seemed a very real possibility. In the months that followed, the two pilots realized that the UN might be an answer and decided to bring greater recognition of the organization's work to the business community. Along with friends Roger Enloe and Alfred Teichmeier, they ultimately founded what is now known as the Business Council for the United Nations (BCUN)". http://www.unausa.org/site/pp.asp?c=fvKRI8MPJpF&b=471517

1971 In the midst of a rash of hijackings, Charles Dent charters a Clipper 747 and flies the General Assembly to Montreal in its first airborne meeting.

"In 1956, during the Hungarian Revolution, Charlie and his co-pilot Richard Munger had long philosophic discussions on the responsibilities individuals and corporations have for the maintenance of world peace. The outcome of these discussions: the idea of founding UN WE BELIEVE to promote the principles of the UN Charter." http://groups.yahoo.com/group/retup/message/11654