Originally Posted by sperbonzo

The larger the population and geographic area that a government rules over, the less representative it becomes. If you want to have your view represented at the local level, a couple of hundred people showing up at a city council meeting will make a big impact. Meanwhile if 1 million people show up at the federal level, they don't even notice you are there. Imagine a world government, run from, say China, (the logical choice). How much do you think your views, priorities, and concerns would be addressed or represented with that situation? You could get 10 million people that agree with you about an issue to show up in the world capital of Beijing, and it would still be meaningless and dismissed by a government on that scale.

With small, local governments, if you don't like the way one government is acting, you can "vote with your feet", and go somewhere that more matches your worldview. If there is a world government and you don't like the way they are doing things, where will you go?

If you want a government that actually represents what people want, you better hope that there is never a world government.




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