🚀 go-pugleaf

  Are you ever going to get your own account? 

f > "Frank" (Robin Collins)

f > [I]f the UN is to be a "civilized body", then perhaps it should first be
f > democratic, in terms of national representation (if not population
f > representation). How can one state on the Security Council over-rule the
f > views of 150+ in the General Assembly and the SC still be civilized?

  Oh, I don't know, perhaps the same principle that allows one individual to
  overrule the desires of a lynch mob. It's called individual rights. Now,
  it doesn't generally apply to whole nations, but I have no problem at all
  with one state having the power to override the wishes of many others.

f > I do insist on democracy at the UN and have seen very little of it. Do
f > you fear abolishing the veto? 

  No, I'd rather the UN go away entirely. Proto-governments are almost as
  bad as governments.

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Gary Strand                      Opinions stated herein are mine alone and are
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