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Originally posted by depmode21
reply to post by Amigori
We learned a long time ago that human beings at the core are savages and need to be PUT IN PLACE by more educated individuals. That was the POINT of religion and that is the POINT of government.
[edit on 5-4-2009 by depmode21]
Originally posted by MainframeII
In response to the OP, a One World Government would not be bad if everyone on the planet still has the right to vote.
Originally posted by Missing Blue Sky
Originally posted by MainframeII
In response to the OP, a One World Government would not be bad if everyone on the planet still has the right to vote.
No!!!!!!!!!
In your own community you can vote to damn a stream, you can vote to build a bridge, you can vote to determine how your small community decides to live in proximity of each other.
If the whole world had the right to vote, the rest of the world could decide that corn should be taxed at 90% and rice is not taxed at all. Why would this happen....because most people in the world can not grow corn and wheat as plentifully and easily as we can...and there are a billion more of them than us.
Your point is a naive argument like the abolition of the electoral college or states rights...power has to be given locally and in a balanced way. Without the electoral college only the needs of the most populated places would be represented in our US government. Also states rights balance these powers. It becomes impossible to find the brilliant balance the founded fatheres so carefully measured when the pie gets bigger and bigger.
Originally posted by depmode21
reply to post by Amigori
Dude, I'm from Afghanistan. Both of my parents emigrated here during the Soviet War, and I was born in the US. Your trying to tell me I don't know about the history of my own country?
You just read a couple pages of Afghanistan's Wikipedia article and try to bring up points I WASN'T TALKING ABOUT IN THE FIRST PLACE. You brought up the 70's and Communism era, none of which took place in the last 20 years. The only point I brought up was post-Soviet war which was Anarchy that took place starting 1989 until the Taliban came into power.
Do you even know any Afghans? They hated communism and will continue hate communism for the rest of their lives. So it wasn't flowers and singing brother, don't try to look at YouTube videos and Wikipedia articles and think your some kind of expert about that region because your not.
...We learned a long time ago that human beings at the core are savages and need to be PUT IN PLACE by more educated individuals. That was the POINT of religion and that is the POINT of government.
None of the # you guys think will happen will EVER happen. The only thing that will happen is that some form of a One World Government will come soon and everybody will enjoy it. And you guys will slap yourselves for wasting so much of your time, worrying about nothing.
Originally posted by MainframeII
Originally posted by Missing Blue Sky
Originally posted by MainframeII
In response to the OP, a One World Government would not be bad if everyone on the planet still has the right to vote.
No!!!!!!!!!
In your own community you can vote to damn a stream, you can vote to build a bridge, you can vote to determine how your small community decides to live in proximity of each other.
If the whole world had the right to vote, the rest of the world could decide that corn should be taxed at 90% and rice is not taxed at all. Why would this happen....because most people in the world can not grow corn and wheat as plentifully and easily as we can...and there are a billion more of them than us.
Your point is a naive argument like the abolition of the electoral college or states rights...power has to be given locally and in a balanced way. Without the electoral college only the needs of the most populated places would be represented in our US government. Also states rights balance these powers. It becomes impossible to find the brilliant balance the founded fatheres so carefully measured when the pie gets bigger and bigger.
Of course local government would still exist (that includes national government). The scope of where a decision pertains should be localized so local government should still exist, but one world government would deal with the global scope.