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View Poll Results: One-World Government
Good For The World 3 13.64%
Not Good For The World 12 54.55%
Not There Yet, But We're Moving In That Direction 7 31.82%
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Old 20th September 2008, 05:41 AM
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1. How do you personally feel about a One-World Government?
2. Are we in a good or bad position as a society for a One-World Government?
3. Do you think it would ever work?
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Old 20th September 2008, 01:36 PM
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It's a silly idea that would simply ensure that all future wars were civil wars.
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Old 20th September 2008, 03:58 PM
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1. How do you personally feel about a One-World Government?
Not a fan, my nationalistic views are to strong and I detest socialism. It would require a largely socialist form of government to work.

2. Are we in a good or bad position as a society for a One-World Government?
No. Very bad position, we are too nationalistic and narcissistic. We are probably 150 - 200 years away from being ready.

3. Do you think it would ever work?
Sure it "would" work. I believe if we are ever to achieve even a type 1 civilization it is necessary. Trick is do we survive long enough?

I voted yes
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Old 20th September 2008, 04:25 PM
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I didn`t vote because i have no idea if it would work. I`m leaning more towards no it wouldn`t. I don`t see this happening anyway. There is no way they can have just one government for the whole world. They can`t even get Iraq to cooperate. How are they gonna get the whole world to agree?
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There is no way that you would get enough people on side to form a world government

And where would you get the Solomons to head that government?

There are far too many competing issues between nations to make it effective

What would be good for Brazil could be bad for Japan

Nations are too diverse in needs and in resources for a common government to be practical.
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Old 20th September 2008, 11:06 PM
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1. How do you personally feel about a One-World Government?
Looking into the far future, if it's the version where we survive and do so in any meaningful technological sense, I see us as having a unified world government.

2. Are we in a good or bad position as a society for a One-World Government?
Right now and forseeable future, OWG isn't possible. You can't get there from here, not any way folks would willingly chose to go at least.

3. Do you think it would ever work?
Yes. If we survive and progress to the point where space is indeed the frontier, we're working at terraforming other planets, a significant population extraterrestrial - those conditions would push at least a Union of World Governments into being.


The League of Nations and the UN (not to mention the WHO and the WTO) are the first baby steps in that direction. But we will need the frontier to pull us up to the higher levels.

Btw, anyone remember collecting for UNICEF and learning esperanto?
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I want smaller, more democratic gov'ts not the opposite.
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There is no way that you would get enough people on side to form a world government

And where would you get the Solomons to head that government?

There are far too many competing issues between nations to make it effective

What would be good for Brazil could be bad for Japan

Nations are too diverse in needs and in resources for a common government to be practical.
Tell that to the EU.
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There is no way that you would get enough people on side to form a world government
Right now. But globalism, for lack of a better term, may be changing that as we speak.

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The same placed we get our current Solomons.

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There are far too many competing issues between nations to make it effective

What would be good for Brazil could be bad for Japan

Nations are too diverse in needs and in resources for a common government to be practical.
Some degree of federalism would obviously be neccessary.
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"It's a silly idea that would simply ensure that all future wars were civil wars."

When was there ever a truly "civil" war?
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"It's a silly idea that would simply ensure that all future wars were civil wars."

When was there ever a truly "civil" war?
Yes ........ I was always polite to the people that were shooting at me.
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What Clownboy, MississippiMud and even BL said.
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Europe is definitely moving that way. It is not working perfectly, but what government is?
Maybe 50 years from now things will look so different, it will be a necessity. Can you imagine?
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Unfortunately I think you are right.
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North America is also moving that way.
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North America is also moving that way.
For the moment. Isolationist sentiments are growing in the US right now, and NAFTA is taking a lot of criticism because of all the job outsourcing it has enabled.
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I agree that some of these things have been slowed down...but I really believe the people behind the effort to unify North America will be patient.
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I agree that some of these things have been slowed down...but I really believe the people behind the effort to unify North America will be patient.
Perhaps, but they may also lose their credibility.
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1. How do you personally feel about a One-World Government?
It would be good to have an instance which actually can solve conflicts peacefully.

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2. Are we in a good or bad position as a society for a One-World Government?
Communication technology, transport, music, movies, there is a lot of things people have in common, so can be politics and government. This does not mean, that different regions can't handle things differently. Regional and local politics is nothing a One-World Government should focus on, as long as people get along with each other in these areas. A One-World Government should focus on how problems of worldwide importance get solved.

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3. Do you think it would ever work?
Yes, it would work, as long as a One-World Government can accept subsidiarity.
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ya theres just no way to make that work unless some huge power forces us into submission
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