Total World Domination

Dave Killion — March 11, 2012

Last Thursday club members were talking about what legitimate functions a government has (if any), and it was put forward that a federal government is needed to restrain both state/provincial governments and local governments. Others responded that that argues in favour of a global government to restrain national governments. And you would think that if there’s anything libertarians would be universally opposed to, it would be One World Government!  But libertarians are only opposed to coercive government. A voluntary world government would be just fine. The only example we could think of was the Catholic Church, but we didn’t spend much time on the topic. I imagine just about every other major religion would also fit the bill, and international organizations like the International Olympic Committee. Any other ideas?

 

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