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| Jan 27, 2010 10:47 pm |
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re: re: re: re: re: Global issues - governance |
| abbeboulah
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Ken,
I have thought about your reply for a while because I am not quite sure what you are saying here. Of course I agree that the problems I listed are challenging; of course I agree that single solutions to any complex social problems tend to have unintended undesirable side-effects even when they are successful in their prime intent.
What I tried -- or thought I tried -- to do, in addition to pinpoint some major problems that in my opinion would affect both alternative attitudes towards the issue of your thread -- global governance, was to point out some principles that might help us develop better solutions. While I don't think these qualify in any way as solutions yet, it sounds as if you see these suggestions already as 'single' solutions about which one should harbor the concerns you state. What are your reasons for this assessment?
I also don't think that any new approaches (to the problem of controlling power, or that of sanctions for violating agreements aimed at guaranteeing nonviolent cooperative problem-solving or planning) that we might be able to develop based on those principles could ever r e p l a c e other traditional means of dealing with these issues (and thereby become 'single solutions'). They would just complement existing instruments. And I don't think there is any argument that the current tools we have aren't doing the job well enough yet.
Or, if the comment is a form of suggesting that my ideas about this are based on a faulty view of the problem: 'wrong question' (a possibility I am not denying) I would be very interested in your reasons for such an interpretation -- and, of course, in what you instead think is the 'right' question? Because I can't believe that you seriously advocate either of the two attitudes, of supporting a world government (without adequate controls), or opposing it, which I see as essentially meaning 'doing nothing' but which arguably means leaving the current bullies to fight out their efforts to usurping global control behind the scenes and pulling the strings of the remaining smaller governments -- with even fewer controls.
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