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In article <Bsvrv2.4Js@apollo.hp.com> nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson) writes:
>In article <1992Aug12.150704.6252@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> bunker@physun.physics.mcmaster.ca (Alex Bunker) writes:
>>In article <BsvGz4.MC9@apollo.hp.com> nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson) writes:
>>>In article <1992Aug12.002637.14449@news.unomaha.edu> trajan@cwis.unomaha.edu (Stephen McIntyre) writes:
>>>>nelson_p@apollo.hp.com  writes:
>
>>>   Who gets to decide what those needs are?   Why do you assume
>>>   that what the majority (I assume you have in mind some form 
>>>   of democracy) would want is what's good for the Earth?  Why
>>>   are you so sure that people won't just want what's good for
>>>   them, personally?   In America people vote for pork-barrel
>>>   projects to bring jobs, wealth, etc to them, by raising taxes
>>>   on everybody else.  Why wouldn't this just happen on a worldwide
>>>   scale?     Anyway, what gives a a bunch of French, Indians,
>>>   Argentinians, Chinese, or Swedes, the right to make laws and
>>>   decisions affecting *my* life?   
>>>
>>Ok the same thing that gives Texans Nevadans Vermontans etc..
>>what is the difference ? You seem to accept other americans
>>voting for a common government why not cut the atificial boundaries
>>and let all human beings do this.
>
>   What's artificial about them?  Don't I have a lot more in common 
>   culturally and economically with people in Texas, Nevada, or Vermont
>   than I do with people in France, China, Argentina, or Nigeria? 
>
>   Nations only work when there is a basic set of values or common
>   culture to bind people together.  Attempts to create nations where
>   these don't exist is folly.  Witness Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, 
>   USSR, India before partition, etc.   
>
>    
>---peter
>

Peter, you are mixing up apples and oranges yes these states fell apart because
they were kept together by coercion and the government did not respect
local autonomy. A world government could have 
constitutional restrictions on its power so it can only deal with global 
issues.

ALEX