Would a One World Government really be so bad?

Not bad, just impractical. Look at the UN.

With one government ruling the world, there would be too much power sitting in one office.

Yes it would because power is too easily corrupted. It is the same reason we have anti- monopoly laws in the US so that businesses cannot garner too much control and abuse the power.

It seems to work on Star Trek.

we can’t get people in my county board of legislators to agree on anything, how do you expect to get the whole world to agree on something?

Looking forward to the endless, heated debates about which nation is going to provide the president/prime-minister.
That, i guess, will be the first point where there will be no agreement on.
Ever.

At its worst, we would have Genghis Khan. At its best, Mao Tse Tung. Forget the idea. Even small governments in small countries have problems – look at Italy.

Let’s be honest, a one world government would have to rule by force and use intimidation to keep the entire world under their authority.

No, it is a natural addition to our governments we already have in society (local, state, federal). I think we do already have it, in the form of the UN maybe.
I remember you asked this on AIROW.
Also, opposition to international government I think is of the same nature as opposition to government in general.

As long as too much power were not given to this office, I think it could be a good thing. There are definite efficiencies of scale….I could envision a socially Democratic world government, perhaps run by a board and not one person, which helped to distribute fundamentals more fairly, I think with the right world government wherein the people of every nation were to vote in leaders to represent the people, if the elections were completely free and fair and publicly financed (something we can’t even do here) that could have one goal…to provide all the world’s people with the things they NEED….it would oversee things like currency, a minimum wage, roads, schools, mail, health care, some sort of social security/disability/retirement…basically something that would ensure that everyone had basic human rights, no one would starve or slip through the cracks. But this government could not have absolute power over the world’s citizens, it would need to be free from the corrupting influence of money and it would need to treat all the world’s people with justice and equality. Also, it would have to be free from religion. Since we don’t yet seem to have figured out how to have a single nation’s government meet that ideal, I’m not optimistic that mankind is ready for anything like that….if anyone even tried right now it would become a dictatorship almost immediately.

We might just get that one world government with the Disney Corporation buying up everything.

One thing that comforts me as I see my nation (the U.S.) going down a dark road imho is the fact that I could always move to Sweden or some other country and be happy. With a one world government If I didn’t like something about it, I would just have to suck it up no matter what. To me that is very scary.

How about a one world rule that states: “Protect our borders and let us live our lives without your interference.”

It would never last, it would naturally break into factions and cause a revolution, because what’s common sense to one group is complete baloney to another, I mean that’s true just in local/state/national governments. Now expand that worldwide?

When someone points out the weaknesses and ill-deeds of any nation members of that nation always say “why don’t you move to “any third world country” and see how you like it”. Once a one world government is implemented, we may be able to unite against tyranny once and for all. Everyone thinks their own nations problems are problems unto their own nation alone. When in actuality, we can see that the whole world suffers from same problems. We are all human, but thanks to categorizing and rhetoric we label each other so as to provide an enemy to unite against according to the will of our leaders.

Paul Wharburg, basis of many conspiracy theories involving one world government, had this to say of one world government.

“We will have a world government whether you like it or not. The only question is whether that government will be achieved by conquest or consent.” (February 17, 1950, as he testified before the US Senate).

David Rockefeller had this to say in his auto-biography “Memoirs” -

“For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as “internationalists” and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”

I do not wish to see a one world government, even under the most humanitarian of pretexts. However, since the mass of people are not in opposition based on the past, maybe future atrocities as a result of globalization will procure a need for humans to rise up from oppression to unify the world not for profit, but for well being. Mr. Wharburg said it best above. They would rather not make world government by conquest, but consent. By manipulating public opinion, they make citizens feel like they have a say in the making of one world government. In doing so we are responsible for our own doom. In America, the country was never set up to only vote in the “good” guy. If only we held firm to the constitution in order to bind men to the law of the land. Not even Satan himself could pervert the nation if we only followed the constitution.

Who would lead the whole thing? If there was one leader in control of the world, it would be too much power for one person.

@switchboard There would never be one leader for something that big. Hell, even for something as big as China, they knew better. It would likely be a Monarchy. Maybe 3, 5, or 7 people sitting up at top. I’m not going to argue whether it could work or not, because no government structure can be perfect. But I’m just saying, it would never be a totalitarian thing.

Remember that old story about the committee that got together and the goal was to design a horse. And they ended up with a camel. That’s pretty much the way I see it would happen. And human nature being what it is, I sure want to be living in or be best friends with the country from which the head guy cometh!

What is a one world government?

Only after the whole world matures to the point where they can tolerate this type of government.

Chances are it would be bad because the people who would be motivated to ‘rule the world’ by making a one government world would probably truly want to ‘rule the world’ in the most negative sense. It would also be very hard to do, so those who were doing it would have to use deadly force to make it happen.

@daloon One World Government

@all

Thanks for all the contributions but can we have a think about the possible positives of a One World Government now?

@RareDenver – I don’t think there are any. The opportunities for tyranny on the small scale when central government is incompetent or corrupt – or both – boggles the imagination. And by the way, people should really stop citing the UN. It is nothing like a world government, it does not even have what one can call an international civil service.

@RareDenver You mean a One World Government in today’s world, with all the different, mutually exclusive ideals that people world wide have? No way would that work.

@RareDenver – I think I did focus on that…it could, if done right, ensure representation of all peoples of the world, achieve human rights and equality everywhere and create huge efficiencies of scale. I just added it’s not feasible in this world.

@dalepetrie yes I liked your answer which is why I gave you a GA you actually read the part of my question that said surely there must be some positives too?

Cool, just wanted to make sure it didn’t get lost in the shuffle.

I think it would be possible and positive, once and only when people would recognize the common interests that binds all of us on earth. We could fight environmental threats better and maybe prevent a meteor threat.

The global interaction between people is ever extending. The idea that any single country can still pursue merely its own interests is beyond us. We are all hurt by pollution in China or unfair labor conditions. Drug money from the US and poverty in Mexico and latin America already create huge problems.

The idea that we can amass huge wealth in one region of the world and let the rest live on in poverty without consequence is also proving thin. Political and religious fanaticism combined with hopeless economic situations make many technologies like nuclear energy and biochemical sciences extremely scary.

In the end we need a world government in my honest opinion.

Does anyone think that contact with intelligent life from off Earth might hasten the development or perceived need for a One World Government?