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To: Elsewhere who wrote (30031)	5/18/2002 8:25:48 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 281500

<FADG is in favour of opposing a reformation of the United Nations and forming an international legal system. //You paint with too broad a brush. Add me to the supporters of a democratic world government,// > Jochen, I just meant from a democratic majority rule point of view. I don't think it's fair to call the idea utopian. That's accepting the label of utopian instead of an argument, which the opponents are unable to raise. The opponents sling a label and call that an argument. Utopia is quite different and I can make some suggestions for Utopia. But I'm not after perfection. I'll accept less mass murder as good enough for now. Of course, we can keep going as we are and wait for New Yorkers to carry Geiger counters and air filters. Wanting to avoid that isn't seeking Utopia. It does NOT sound Utopian just because Luddites without imagination have trouble with it. The USA has a similar constitution, but even more overbearing than I imagine for a federal UN, and it's not exactly utopian. It's a very pragmatic, prosaic and sensible way of stablizing the worst excesses of human mania. People living within the USA constitution seem to find it works okay for the most part. So I don't see why they think something less but on a wider scale would be such a big deal to implement. Mqurice