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I'm not sure what the implication is that Asia contains most of the world's population. What does that imply?
originally posted by: fatkid
a reply to: fractal5
I like how you turned this into an anti-trump rant; however, I think your arguement falls apart somewhere around nukes.... why would a country nuke itself?
As far as minorities go if you combine Southeast Asia, and east Asia - those populations add up almost 1/3 of the population of the world, and South Asia would put it st over 1/2.
Your reference to "legit" government being signed by all parties is based off of one point of view, the question is, even if it was the "only" way - why wouldn't you want it?
Not so much slavery as surfdom. One general principle underlying my belief on that is the non-aggression principle which states it is wrong to initiate violence against another person for any reason. People in urban areas believe they have a right to all of my property at any time they choose so long as they can outvote me to take everything I own through taxation. And if I don't pay their tax bill, they will destroy my life. Well that is a problem because I don't support an organization that uses extortion to get their way. They (today's society) believes that as an individual it is morally wrong to take my property without my permission. However, when they gang up on me using voting it is suddenly okay for that gang to take away my property without my permission! Wow, I strongly object. I would consider myself a voluntaryist in that I do believe government is only by consent of the governed. But, you can't have a consent of only a few of the governed as today, or a minority of the governed as today in consent. You need FULL consent of the governed. Government is founded on consent and therefore if you want a strong foundation you need full consent. The government needs my permission to take my money to be used for any wars, or any government programs. I'll pay for the social services that I want, and not pay for the ones I don't want. As for charity, leave that to charities because they can do it efficiently unlike governments.
originally posted by: fatkid
a reply to: fractal5
That is interesting, who do you know that wants to do this to enslave people?
So you think it is best for all of humanity if there is one great place where a small amount of population lives, because if we all lived under the same government it would somehow make the entire world a worse place....
You just said you think it is better for a small amount of the population to have it good while the rest live in mediocre societies, how is that different from this slavery thing you are talking about?
Assuming you mean United States by "America Government", American government was not founded on not consent but violent revolution. At the root, 13 founders forced the other millions into their system, and many thousands were conscripted by force into the revolutionary army. I do know someone who's family history involved such conscription. There was no voting on that meaning not even minority consent was achieved in founding the United States. Consent means, "hey can I do X?" and then getting back "yes, you can do X". Nobody in the founding of the United States went around saying, hey, do you want to participate in The United States of America? Nobody did that, so there was no consent. I can't imagine how you would say there was consent. Who asked permission? Who?
originally posted by: fatkid
a reply to: fractal5
The *America* Government was founded on consent, government existed well before the republic......
The one world government wouldn't be called America, sometimes you have let go of what you know to get something better, that is what our founding fathers did.
So you would be ok with a one world government broken down into states?