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And what if they don't want to? Europe can't form a union that makes its members happy, imagine the troubles world-wide.
Originally posted by allenidaho
I personally don't see anything wrong with a one-world government as long as we can still be free. There have to be certain ground rules that all countries would be willing to abide by.
Does the one world government impose Sharia or not? Someone's going to be upset. (As in war.)
There are so many differences in opinion, in religion, in ideology that it would be difficult to achieve. You can't please everyone.
Most of the die hard christians are against the idea because they think its a sign of apocalypse, as dumb as that sounds.
The UN reflects the fact that different people want different things and are willing to argue for them. In the United States, the government was designed to move slowly to make it harder to trample individual rights, and we don't even have that perfect yet.
You also have to able to elect a solid and effective leadership that isn't going to be a bickering circus act like the United Nations turned out to be.
Could you protest, or would it be the French Revolution with blood in the streets? Own whatever you want? If you earn $100,000 could you keep it? Or would it go to feed the starving in Africa under a world wide tax plan? What makes you think you'd have anything left?
But if you were still able to make a living, own whatever you want, think whatever you want, etc. it could work.
I think you'll find that most Americans really like your idea, at least the founders did. Let's get every country to that point, then form multi-national and global governments after we have the national level in place.
Concentration of power in a few hands? How about placing the power in the hands of the people at a local level, in representatives at the national level and one world coordination at the world level.
Originally posted by daskakik
Concentration of power in a few hands? How about placing the power in the hands of the people at a local level, in representatives at the national level and one world coordination at the world level. An expanded Swiss model should work.
Originally posted by muse7
reply to post by daskakik
Finally some sense being injected into this thread,
ATS for some reason likes to live divided, this selfish mentality will get us no where
Originally posted by muse7
reply to post by daskakik
Finally some sense being injected into this thread,
ATS for some reason likes to live divided, this selfish mentality will get us no where
Originally posted by muse7
Also I think that a EU model based government would work, where everyone can move freely and work wherever they want depending on the availability of jobs and such.
Originally posted by muse7
Wouldn't that be better than living in countries, divided by lines in the sand and fighting like school children in playgrounds?
but wouldn't that be the ideal world to live in? Everyone being together without countries separating us and preventing us from reaching our potential as a species, instead we like to brand ourselves white, black, brown, hispanic, etc those things just keep us from reaching our true potential.