Even before any attempt to clarify personal guiding principles a simplified global perspective may provide even more clarity for choosing those principles. For “a global perspective'” we might begin by visualizing humanity from a viewpoint above the planet. What do we see? Humanity appears as what might be described as a writhing mass of tiny organisms, humans, functioning somehow purposefully as a many-tentacled finely connected glob.Is this not a pretty picture? Read that whichever way you prefer!Let’s go for it! Step back, imagine that image, observe.