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Each agent must educate himself and others as much as they are able about the peoples of the world—their access to the basic goods of agency, their essential commonly held cultural values, and their governmental and institutional structures—in order that they might create a worldview that includes those of other nations so that individually and collectively the agent might accept the duties that ensue from those peoples’ legitimate rights claims, and to act accordingly within what is aspirationally possible.

The extended community worldview imperative (community extended throughout the world) has three principal parts. The first has to do with self and micro community education²¹ about the peoples of the world (hoti). This educational exercise should include important facts like geographical situation, political and institutional structures, and culture and how the people fare with respect to the basic goods of agency (see ssss1). This education process should be ongoing. The point is to allocate space in one’s consciousness and in the consciousness of those in your micro community to the existence and lives of others remote from you. Because this is an ethical imperative, obedience is not optional.