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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (124043)	1/30/2004 8:07:06 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) of 281500

The problem is, complex societies require complex control structures. That means Big Something. The choice is Big Government, or Big Business, running things. Most big government has nothing to do with keeping corporations from controlling people. In fact when business does take control or take advantage on a large scale it is usually with the assistance of government. A global economy, and the spread of WMD, and global warming, and global diseases (from SARS to mad cows to HIV), and a list of other pressing problems, requires a global government to address them. Eventually a world government might make sense but that time is a long way off. Most of the world has little in the way of democratic or classically liberal tradition. The American government can be bad enough but I think it protects individual liberty better then any world government would. Also I doubt that you could get a majority of the people in the world to support world government. If there was a world government it would have to allow for most decisions to be decided on a lower level. One big solution for all the different people, cultures and traditions around the world is unlikely to be a good idea. Tim

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