♪alt13
Well-Known Member
Okay, so we would at least need a global administrative body to coordinate large efforts involving many groups. So it'd have to be a think tank with a bureaucracy.
As for the enforcement issue, if membership in the global government comes with sizable benefit to those who voluntarily join (and it should be designed to offer such benefit), then an enforceable set of rules is both justifiable, and important from a symbolic and practical perspectives. As for modes of enforcement, they could range from imposing penalties to discourage a violating action by counter-acting its benefit to the community (for example if a community enacts a slave labor system, then a fee that outweighs any economic benefit of that system can be issued), to expulsion from the group.
Yeah I'm cool with that.
My major concern was with the idea of governing which doesn't imply voluntary and enforcement that implies state military force. You addressed both of those so I would agree that yes such an institution does sound acceptable but now we are left with defining what we mean by community. If by that you mean something like a country than we have reintroduced the issues to which I would object. If on the other hand you are talking about communities like the Salt Lake Homeowners Association, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, the American Academy of Science, etc then I say, yeppers.