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| Poll: One World Government: Good thing or Bad thing? This poll is closed. |
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| Overall a good thing, given the right execution | 6 | 28.57% | |
| A bad thing no matter how it is executed | 15 | 71.43% | |
| Total | 21 vote(s) | 100% | |
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One World Government?
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For a government on such a large scale to exist we must first lose the rights to freedom, happiness and all our rights to power and wealth. Human beings will cease to be anymore than property.
Live every day as if already dead, that way you're not disappointed when you are.
We have a right to wealth?
My rights have been violated all this time.
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LastPoet
 Leader of the gang of jerkoffs(tm)  Religious Views: L'Uomo verrà portato dalla sua creazione RE: One World Government?
June 27, 2011 at 2:39 pm
(This post was last modified: June 27, 2011 at 2:39 pm by LastPoet.)
And what is this "right execution"?
 (June 27, 2011 at 2:01 am)Aerzia Saerules Arktuos Wrote: Absolutely not... democracy must die here and now. In space it will be crushed utterly. Not to mention it is evil. I knew I headscissored you for too long. You've gone completely mad due to lack of oxygen supply. Sorry about that. One world government? Don't know about that, we haven't quite taken care of all the corruption in the world yet. What's to stop a world government from becoming corrupt? Mind you I'm sure there are plenty of other reasons that such an idea might not work.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity. Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist. You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
Oh yes, Orwell, Huxley, Bradbury all come to mind.
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RE: One World Government?
June 27, 2011 at 3:05 pm
(This post was last modified: June 27, 2011 at 3:06 pm by JohnDG.)
(June 27, 2011 at 2:38 pm)Epimethean Wrote: We have a right to wealth? In a one world government situation, I doubt currency will continue to exist, we will either be workers, farmers, or soldiers. Some will be well educated to continue the persuit of knowledge.
Live every day as if already dead, that way you're not disappointed when you are.
But do we have a "right" to wealth?
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 (June 27, 2011 at 2:32 pm)JohnDG Wrote: For a government on such a large scale to exist we must first lose the rights to freedom, happiness and all our rights to power and wealth. Human beings will cease to be anymore than property. Really? I love these off-the-cuff bombasts. Could you quantify the scale of government at which "rights to freedom, happiness and all our rights to power and wealth" becomes lost? Could you also identify the how this scale might change with various factors that might effect your power, wealth and happiness?  (June 27, 2011 at 2:39 pm)LastPoet Wrote: And what is this "right execution"? Well I would imagine that the concepts of both Capitalism and Socialism would be completely irrelevant in this implied model. We would have to come up with something entirely new that defies old standards and definitions. Perhaps something akin to what Riane Eisler suggests in regards to politics and economics. I would have to do more research on that as it's been so long since I last tapped into it. But I will say this, that what qualifies a "right execution" would be anything that creates a stable government. It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to work. One option in the poll says "Yes, a stable, functioning world government would be an overall good thing" and the other option is "Even if we had a stable, functioning government for the entire planet it would not be a good thing overall". I think this is the first and most important question, asking that even if we established a functioning world government would it be right? Or are there alternatives?
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." -Carl Sagan
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