QUOTE(hnnjsn @ Jun 18 2007, 06:39 PM)

If you had the power to change the world where would you start. Im not implying anything but the first thing i would do is make it illegal fora man to hold a public office position. meaning senator, state represenative, congress etc.... what would you do?

Hmm, sounds okay, but I guess eventually someone would cry foul

To keep my answer to the world's problems under the general heading of cryptozoology, I would ...
*Changes to the human species*, making us all cryptids

1) Tone down racial strife by giving everyone basic mental control over their coloration. Maybe not like a chameleon's, but at least like some anoles and geckos. People do fight over culture and language and other things, but not usually as bad as when there's something obvious like color.
2) Reduce world population problems by making ovulation non-automatic, you ovulate if you want to. This would also tend to raise women's rights because Patriarchal Oppressors couldn't *use* unwilling women for babies. And remove most of the controversy over abortion, because there would be very very few unwanted pregnancies.
3) Eliminate almost all strife between the sexes by making one's biological sex non-genetic. Ursula Leguin had gentically modified humans who kept switching back and forth, but I think that would be confusing. Maybe just an unlikely-to-revert pseudo-choice at time of puberty. This might have the side effect of ending all the hatred and stupid arguments over homosexuality, though I'm not sure.
4) Voluntary telepathy, there if you want it, but no memory scans or telepathic mind control or all that frightening stuff. It's tiresome and usually confusuing having to always translate my thoughts and feelings to and from english, and there don't seem to be any languages that match my mental processes.