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To: TimF who wrote (124058)	1/31/2004 3:40:04 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (3) of 281500

<Eventually a world government might make sense but that time is a long way off.> The attitude today, towards a global government that can abolish war between nations, is the same as the attitude in the 1700s toward abolishing slavery. Rational educated realistic people, in 1750, said that slavery had existed in most nations in most times, and it was utopian to think it could be ended. The anti-slavery movement was first championed by a group of wierdo religious fanatics, crazy utopians: the Quakers. The movement went through several stages: 1. ignored by all reasonable people 2. a pleasant but impractical ideal for the distant future 3. a modest-sized protest movement 4. general acceptance 5. practical application Message 19727587 The arguments you make against a world government, and the abolition of war, are exactly the same as made against the anti-slavery movement in the late 1700s.

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