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In article <1992Aug11.180332.492@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> bunker@physun.physics.mcmaster.ca (Alex Bunker) writes:

>In article <archer.364@utkux1.utk.edu> archer@utkux1.utk.edu (T. Archer) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug11.145521.29060@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> bunker@physun.physics.mcmaster.ca (Alex Bunker) writes:
>>
>>>World govenrment is closer at hand now than in the 60's and yes I will
>>>not hide it Frank can speak for himself but I will stand proud and say
>>>I AM IN FAVOR OF WORLD GOVERNMENT AND I REFUSE TO FEEL ANY ALLEGENCE TO
>>>ANY SUBUNIT OF THE WHOLE COMMONLY KNOWN AS A COUNTRY!!!!
>>>Now put that in your pipe and smoke it!
>>>I can just see the parochial nationalists and "patriots" fuming!`
>>
>>>ALEX
>>
>>I'm not interested in fuming patriots.  I'm more interested in why you think 
>>that world government is a good idea?
>>-=-=-
>>T. Archer  PA142548@utkvm1.utk.edu
>>University of Tennessee
>>"Vote Dempublican, it's easier than thinking." -- Unknown
>>-=-=-


>Same reason why it is better for the USA to be one country than 50
>There would be no war and decisions would get made through democratic
>process. 

     We've already had one civil war in the United States.  Plenty of
other countries have fractured into pieces when they didn't like
what the Central Authority had to say.  Size, as a general rule, just 
makes these problems worse.  (You're likely to have a war just deciding
where the capital should be.)

     This "democratic process" would then allow those countries (areas)
with the most people (China, India, etc.) to have a far greater voice than
others.  Why should they be dictating issues to somebody who lives, say,
in England or Canada?

>If the world government is democratically elected then there
>would be no way around the will of the people and we would not have
>to all sink to the economic lowest common denomenator in order to 
>survive. 

     "the will of the people" is not always the best way to go.  Sometimes
the will of the people can be downright dangerous and destructive.

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