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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (7888)	12/22/2006 5:43:11 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

<The vast majority of the difficulty in instituting a NUN is getting wide spread international agreement. However you start it you don't remove that difficulty.> Tim, implicit in your comments on it is the idea of MAKING everyone accept it. <But even if you wanted to and did implement and enforce a rule that everyone in the world had to use CDMA that would still be smaller and simpler as a political action then instituting a "NUN". > Step away from the concept of control and think Libertarian voluntarism. Force becomes an interesting thing from the past. Which is not to say self-defence doesn't remain a necessary component, but it becomes a point of hygiene as in New Zealand and other democratic countries, whereas in Iraq, Saddam and co were heavily armed and agreement was at the point of a barrel of a gun. It's not a matter of getting agreement, enforcing a rule, having to use. It's more of an invitation to join a good idea. Okay, let's suppose Croatia and Paraguay sign up. A common currency would be convenient. That might do for a start. Have you ever heard of patriotism? A lot of people think of it as a valuable part of their identity, apart from the property rights conferred. Croatians, Paraguayans, and Iraqis would start to think of themselves as somewhat special. They'd feel they had friends. Trade would probably start to increase among them. Opportunities would start to improve for individuals. Two of them might agree to allow free movement of people residentially rather than just as tourists. Or all three might agree to free movement. In the old British Empire, people would roam across the world. It was only when large population shifts to the welfare state of the UK became untenable that it fell apart, softened up by WWI and WWII and the aging and inadequacy of the philosophical foundations. There is still significant goodwill among members of the British Commonwealth. Mqurice