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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (124325)2/3/2004 8:23:21 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Until there is a world government that abolishes war, relations between nations (and therefore between the inhabitants of those nations) will be based on force.

If there is no consensus for a world government it can only be established by force. For that matter government directives are always imposed by force. The force may be more hidden and often less destructive then open warfare but its still force.

Take the excuses made for slavery in 1750, and simply substitute the word "war" for "slavery", and "conquered people" for "slaves" and you have all the excuses for war commonly used today. For example:..."

Argument A for cause X can follow the same pattern as argument B for cause Y, and even if Y is unjustified it doesn't man X is. Also there are other arguments that don't follow the pattern of your slavery arguments. Your presentation of these arguments might make for interest rhetoric but it is not logically convincing. I am fairly sure I could make arguments that followed the same pattern for something you support, even specifically for world government. If this type of argument was meaningful then you would have just "proved" that world government was a good thing while I would have just "proved" that it is a bad thing.

Lots more examples in...

A million examples of faulty logic aren't any more convincing then one.

Tim
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