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- From: mfriedma@uucp (Michael Friedman)
- Subject: Re: WORLD GOVERNMENT
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- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 20:51:57 GMT
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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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