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Re: Medical Marijuana
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 23 Nov 2001 19:23:00 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti writes:
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> > > The current court has done all
> > > kinds of crazy things with our rights. That the power of the single state
> > > is losing ground to the idea of a single nation in an era of "globalization"
> > > is hardly surprising. Not good, but not surprising...
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> > I must confess that this has always puzzled me. Why are "states"
> > preferable to a single state? I can certainly understand how in earlier
> > times the limits of communications and geography necessitated the
> > subdivision of the nation, but this no longer seems relevant to me, and it
> > will only become less meaningful as electronic communication and the web
> > become more advanced. For that matter, why would a global state be a
> > problem? No one here has really discussed it at length (AFAIK), but in the
> > media, the only arguments I hear are horribly xenophobic. Is there a
> > benefit to preventing a one-world community?
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> Smaller states == smaller tyrannies.
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> More states == more of a marketplace of ideas.
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> Do you want a system in which the current population of China and India can
> vote to nuke Scotland???
I want a system where countries do not want to "nuke" others and where
wars are not fought via focus groups and media driven opinion polls.
Scott A
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| (...) It would indeed be nice if a war-less system had *ever* existed. Obviously a world without war is preferable to a world in which war is common, but wars were fought for stupid reasons long before focus groups and media polls existed; there's (...) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Smaller states == smaller tyrannies. More states == more of a marketplace of ideas. Do you want a system in which the current population of China and India can vote to nuke Scotland??? (25 years ago, 23-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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