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The need for world government
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#22Climate change etc. should be handled by international agreements. If there is no competition between countries, governments tend to turn their despotic energies on their own citizens. There would be nowhere for Snowden or Assange to go. If your social credit score is ruined, it is ruined worldwide. The military would be used to suppress the population. I'm very certain that a world government would turn into a Stali…
As much as I want a single government without wars and nations, I believe that you are unfortunately right. A single entity is much easier to be corrupted and suppress humans. Perhaps there is still a way. I think EU is a good example. It has its problems but I can’t imagine Europe without it.
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#23Governments are at their core, service providers. Monopolies tend not to provide good services. And when the world government abuses you, you will have nowhere else to go.
So it sounds like we need multiple world governments operating over the same area rather than having a bunch of monopolies around the globe.
Which is exactly what we already have. There is what your local government says you should be doing, and there is what your friendly (or not so much) neighborhood superpowers say your government should be doing.
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#251) If you centralize everything into one government: what if that one government becomes corrupt? Then you cannot run to any other governments.
2) Cultural differences will require that different populations operate and behave differently, you will never be able to put the same constraints on different cultures.
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#26"It seems obvious to me that planetary problems demand planetary government." That does not seem obvious to me at all. And I can't imagine a common set of governing principles acceptable to Iceland, China, Russia and the Taliban. For example, looking at what is currently rocking the U.S., what would be the global policy on abortion?
Abortion should be a human right. All countries that don’t respect that should pay huge fines. Thanks for giving that example.
Pay fines to who?
What about the human rights of the unborn babies?
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#27"It seems obvious to me that planetary problems demand planetary government." That does not seem obvious to me at all. And I can't imagine a common set of governing principles acceptable to Iceland, China, Russia and the Taliban. For example, looking at what is currently rocking the U.S., what would be the global policy on abortion?
Abortion should be a human right. All countries that don’t respect that should pay huge fines. Thanks for giving that example.
You are entitled to that opinion as others are to the very huge gray intermediates AND the total opposite. Why not?
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#28World government is our only hope!
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#29Based on how the EU and UN worked out a world government sounds like a disaster.
What do you mean? Nothing is perfect but the EU has been a net positive for its member states. It is approved of by a majority of its citizens across all countries. The EU created one of the most prosperous (for the common person), free and tolerant societies on earth. You can make all the snarky remarks you want, but if you were reincarnating right now as some random human and you learned that you reincarnated as a…
》The EU created one of the most prosperous (for the common person), free and tolerant societies on earth.
House arrest several months a year, forced experimental vaccination, forbidden to heat house at winter, soon forbidden to use car, forced indoctrination of children, oposition parties banned or under surveillance, censorship, surveillance of private communications, overt racism and sexism...
My family has been through many regimes. Current one is not "free" or "tolerant". And it is not even prosperous, if young family can not afford house and children!
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#30I myself believe in the need for a world government. I will make a great and kind emperor.
It's high time that everyone gets onboard with this.