BBC News - G8 Camp David summit targets 'growth and stability'
Certainly there is some value to these meetings, but I have to wonder if any of these representatives consider the possibility that some economic problems have ethical causes.
I wonder what could happen if there was a G8 that focused regularly on ethics, the character or moral fabric of their countries. Which economies demonstrate growth and stability over a number of years because the majority of the people work honestly? Where the employers treat employees fairly? Where trust encourages commerce?
And which countries would compose the G8 of ethics? Might be some excluded from the present G8?
And yet this begs the question: Can morality be legislated? (Just be good to one another, people, and the economy will get better...). In the end, the choice to be a better nation depends on whether every individual (or at least the majority) assumes her or his responsibility to improve...gradually...for their own good and for their nation's good.
