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In article <1992Aug12.185205.8100@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> bunker@physun.physics.mcmaster.ca (Alex Bunker) writes:
>In article <1992Aug12.155221.3392@ncar.ucar.edu> gary@colossus.cgd.ucar.edu (Gary Strand) writes:
>>  Are you prepared to have your government force involuntary sterilizations 
>>  and involuntary abortions (and perhaps more) on individuals? In other words,
>>  is effective population control possible under a free system, or does it
>>  require a totalitarian system, a la China?

>NO NO NO! populartion control program can be EDUCATIONAL in nature!

They certainly can be, but will they be?  Given that we have a billion
voter bloc in China that needs mandatory controls because of their own
local population densitiy do you really think that they will be
sympathetic to others who do not want mandatory controls?

>>  Peace and security between nations, perhaps (by the threat of more force
>>  than they can bring to bear, remember!) but what about peace and security
>>  *from* the world government? If we cannot trust nations to refrain from
>>  warring with each other, how can we trust a world government to
>>  refrain from 
>>  making war on us?

>Democratically elected governments operate under a constitution and
>are restricted by this. A world government can no more make war on its
>people than the US govenrment.

Does this also apply to Serbia?  What about England and Northern
Ireland?  El Salvador?  The Philippines since Marcos?

>>ab>    Labor legislation (to ensure an even global economic playing field)

>>  Sorry, but the global economic "playing field" cannot be levelled. As I
>>  tried to point out to "Frank", a ski instructor just isn't going to be paid
>>  very much in Guam. Differences in geography, population distribution, re-
>>  sources, and so on, make it impossible to construct an economic system that
>>  overrides these differences. Just can't be done.

>This is true but standard laws for the labor negotiation process etc are
>nice

Why?  Personally I think they are very bad.  The current system
penalizes those who make ridiculous laws and makes it very obvious
they are screwing themselves.  If we're all hamstrung by the same laws
then the ill effects will not be so obvious becasue there won't be
anything to compare with.
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