Top 10 signs the world is going to hell.
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Seriously, every time I get an idea for a good post topic lately, I hear about something even more fucked up before I get a chance to write it. I can't keep up with all the fucked up shit going on in the world right now … if I did, I'd be spending so damn much time writing for this site, I wouldn't have time to go to work.
So, I figure I'll just do a quick roundup of all the bullshit, instead of trying to write a fucking novel about each and every one…
- Israel is bombing Gaza back to the stone age. Yeah, just when things finally sound mellow over in Israel's neighborhood, the "Israel must die" fuckwits in Hamas shoot off a few rockets. So, what does Israel do? Bombs the everliving fuck out of anyone and anything with the misfortune to be within 50 yards of anyone suspected of ever having shaken hands with a possible member of Hamas. Y'know, as you do.
What they should have done is offer a massive reward to any Palestinian who brings them the heads of the big-wig Hamas assholes. Problem being, that probably violates all sorts of international laws about how things are supposed to be done. Bombing schools full of newly-homeless-because-their-houses-have-already-been-bombed, innocent Palestinians, on the other hand? See, that is just self-defense.
The middle east is seriously fucked. And sticking Israel in the middle of it all back in the 40s? Not such a fucking good idea after all.
- Zimbabwe is dying of cholera. Seriously. The state-run hospitals were shut down after the staff members had the NERVE to ask the government to supply the food and medicine and running water they needed to take care of their patients. So, to use the example I heard on the radio today, if a woman needs an emergency C-section, she dies. Unless she has $3000USD to pay for a Caesarean at a private hospital. $3000 cash up-front. In a country where people live on an average of $1USD per day.
So yeah. Cholera (which is stupidly easy to treat) breaks out, because … it's hard to even believe … the government ignores warnings about the nation's sewer & potable water systems needing maintenance. So, all of a sudden there's no running water. The sewers start leaking. Into the water supply. And now something like 40,000 people have cholera, and a couple thousand have already died.
And there are no hospitals.
Seriously. No fucking hospitals.
Oh, and "President" Mugabe is on vacation this month.
- Bernie Madoff is not in jail. Nope, he's under house arrest while he awaits trial (which isn't so painful when you live in the top two floors of your apartment building), busily shipping his valuables off to family members before everything gets confiscated in a vain attempt to recoup a fraction of the 50 BILLION DOLLARS he swindled.
FIFTY-FUCKING-BILLION
That is a fucking lot of money. As this nice woman on YouTube helpfully explains: A million is 10 hundred thousand. A billion is 10 hundred million. Multiply that by 50, and that's how much money Madoff made off with. It makes your head spin. But no, let's not put him in jail. Let's sit and watch while he empties his two-floor apartment of anything valuable, and then put him in jail.
And Bernie? Like the Israeli government isn't doing enough to encourage anti-Semitism? Did you really have to go and play out the "greedy Jewish banker-conman" stereotype too?! Your rabbi should excommunicate you.
- The cops are still shooting unarmed black guys. Yup. There was rioting in Oakland a week ago, because the cops shot an unarmed black guy in the back. While he was laying on the ground. In handcuffs.
What the motherfuck were those trigger-happy, incompetent, fucking braindead, murdering bastards thinking?! Come the fuck on, here. How can a guy be a lethal threat when he's laying face down on the fucking ground, with both his hands locked behind his back? Because I don't know if they cover this in Oakland police training, but you're not supposed to shoot people who aren't a threat to you. Even if Oscar Grant was laying on the ground, shouting "DEATH TO THE PIGS!!! YOU RACIST SHITHEAD MOTHERFUCKERS!!! DEATH TO THE PIGS!!!" Even then. You still aren't allowed to shoot him.
And when you do shoot him? You piss a lot of people off. Black people. White people. Brown people. Yellow people. Probably even some purple people somewhere. And you make more black guys want to shout things like, "DEATH TO THE PIGS!!! YOU RACIST SHITHEAD MOTHERFUCKERS!!!" You know why? Because that was a racist shithead motherfucker thing to do. That's why.
- The bailout money isn't doing the trick. Y'know how a bunch of banks bought a bunch of other failing banks? And they got billions of dollars from the government for doing it? And those failing banks were failing because they had so many "bad assets"? (I thought the word for that was "liability" … but what do I know about high finance?) The funniest thing is happening now: The failed banks' bad assets are dragging their new owners down into the quicksand too. So now they want the other $350 billion of the bailout money ASAP.
See, now, at first they were saying the gov't bailout money was going towards buying the bad assets, so the banks could get them off their books and go on with business. But no. The stupid motherfuckers in Congress just figured they could throw $350 billion down the toilet, no strings attached, and it would actually fix something. Keeping in mind that the fucks the money's getting thrown at couldn't manage their fucking money in the first place.
Of course, the people in charge of handing out the money are the same people who've been jacking up the Federal deficit like there's no tomorrow … but what do they know about high finance? Not much, apparently.
- Afghani extremists are throwing acid on schoolgirls' faces. Because, y'know, girls shouldn't be able to read, or anything like that. It gives them ideas, and ideas are dangerous. Because women with ideas start doing things like not staying home popping out children, and they want jobs, and driving licenses, and crazy shit like that. So, y'know, clearly the best possible way to approach the problem is to ambush them on their way to school and throw acid in their faces. Especially since the school is in a walled compound, so you can't actually throw grenades through the windows or anything really sensible like that.
And of course, we were supposed to take care of that shit. You remember how we went into Afghanistan, took out the Taliban government, and gave them democracy and freedom and all that good shit? Yeah, well, y'know, nevermind all that. Saddam needed taking out. And Afghanistan doesn't have shit tons of oil anyhow, so why worry about it?
- The US welfare system is fucked. There's a 60 month lifetime limit on receiving welfare benefits in the US. And now people are losing their jobs left and right. Losing their houses all over the country. And no matter how bad things get for these folks, their family is cut off after five years.
Yup. Pretty much everything the US set up to prevent another Great Depression and keep people from starving in the streets en masse is fucked. Welfare? Five years, then fuck off. Banking regulations? Hell no, "free market" business is so much more efficient! Social Security? Well, technically it's still there. For how long? Who knows. Stock trade transaction taxes? Hey man, why cut into our precious profits just to give the government more money? It's not like we're ever going to need billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars to cover our asses or anything.
- Digital TV is coming!!! Really, I couldn't care less about that in and of itself. I don't even own a TV. But now they're talking about delaying the US trasition to digital broadcasting (scheduled for mid-February). Why? Because they suddenly realized something was very wrong with the whole plan, technologically speaking? Nope. Because the TV stations aren't ready for it? Nope.
Because a whole bunch of Americans haven't got their digital conversion box coupons yet. Which means … wait for it … they wouldn't be able to watch TV. Holy motherfucking hell. What would they do? They'd have to talk to their family members! Or read a newspaper! Or maybe go outside! Or something!
The sad thing is, it wouldn't surprise me a bit if it caused rioting in the streets somewhere.
- BushCo will likely get off the hook. We already know Congress was too fucking spineless during the last two years to impeach the murdering bastards in the Executive Branch. So it goes. But one could only hope that Obama's to-do list would include having a special commission investigate BushCo's many and varied blatant violations of the Consitution. If electing Obama was a big step in redeeming the American public's international reputation, seeing justice served to the assholes he's replacing would do wonders for the US government's reputation both at home and abroad.
When asked if he would move to investigate BushCo's wrongdoings, Obama said first that he doesn't "believe that anybody is above the law," which sounds awfully promising. But this was followed by, "we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards." That doesn't sound promising at all.
- And to top it all off… People like this actually exist. This man may well be one of the most disturbing human beings I've ever seen. You'd expect a performance like this in a movie about an exceptionally deranged serial killer:
Who the fuck is he talking to?!
@AB: If you think the conflict in the Middle East started by "sticking Israel in the middle of it all back in the 40s," you really need to do a little homework. Make that A LOT of homework.
16th January 2009 at 2:56 pm | permalink |@Haden: I didn't say the conflict in the Middle East started with Israel. Nor do I think that. Please, go back and re-read: I said sticking Israel into the middle of everything was "not such a fucking good idea."
As in: It didn't help. It wasn't a good way of contributing to increased harmony in the region. You might even say it made an already volatile region downright incendiary.
Clearer?
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16th January 2009 at 5:23 pm | permalink |@Bob: Sorry man. If I knew how to embed a cold shower into a web page along with a video, I'd hook you up. ;-)
16th January 2009 at 6:13 pm | permalink |1. Side A persecutes side B – nothing new here. Look at the last 10,000 years of history for other examples.
2. Okay politicians would rather let the rest of the country die than admit they are wrong. Look at the last 10,000 years of history for other examples.
3. Intelligent corrupt fuck rips off loads of people less intelligent than he is. Look at the last 10,000 years of history for other examples.
4. Those in power persecute minorities. Look at the last 10,000 years of history for other examples.
5. Governement pays off those who can control the population on is behalf. Look at the last 10,000 years of history for other examples.
6. Women are an oppressed. Look at the last 10,000 years of history for other examples.
7. You mean there was a welfare system? – The ordinary people are abused by their government. Look at the last 10,000 years of history for other examples.
8. # Digital TV is coming!!! – My first thought was – Fuck it can't use 'Look at the last 10,000 years of history for other examples.' on this one – on the other hand this is more of the populous might have the time to think for itself rather than listen to government propaganda – Look at the last 10,000 years of history for other examples.
9. New government has got old governement out of the way – make them 'Elders' and respect them – Look at the last 10,000 years of history for other examples.
10. Alpha male sterotype shows off muscles. Look at the last 10,000 years of history for other examples.
16th January 2009 at 6:15 pm | permalink |1. Not only is the IDF having a gay old time blowing up Palestinians, they've diversified, and added "UN Gaza Headquarters" to their list of likely terrorist sites. Cos nothing fosters goodwill like killing aid workers.
2. Not only is this shit going on, but it was basically made possible by Thabo Mbeki being a fucking pussy and supporting Mugabe while the rest of the world was booing. You would need to be, say, Texan to be a more disappointing successor to Mandela.
3. Didn't you get the memo? Rich people are better than poor people. It's probably just an indication that along with various people's money he may well have also made off with a number of embarassing secrets.
4. Dickheads. Also on the topic of great respect for fellow humans, encouraging a teenager to jump off a roof while the police negotiator's trying to talk him down: awesome.
5. Part of a well thought out plan to reinforce the idea that government intervention doesn't work, and that really all we need is the free market. Because, all those regulations caused the meltdown in the first place.
6. I hate you. I'd managed to avoid hearing about this until now. At least they've said a big "Fuck you, we're going to school still".
7. And FSM help you if you get sick at the moment in the 'States.
8. Well duh, if people can't watch TV, they can't watch Fix. Which means they can't be educated properly. We can't have that.
9. As much as the fucker deserves it, Republicans would love to jump up and down about how it's a partisan witchhunt and make things more difficult for everyone. Because, in times of crisis, coming together isn't what counts! It's cheap political point scoring.
10. Bob, you are creepy.
16th January 2009 at 6:29 pm | permalink |I'm beginning to think that the crime-punishment relationship is parabolic. Commit a small crime, like stealing bread, and you get a small punishment. Commit a medium crime, like stealing three cars, and you can go to jail for life (under three-strikes policies). Commit an enormous crime, like murdering a million Iraqis or stealing $50 billion dollars, and you face no punishment or a very small one. Mark my words: Madoff will not serve more than five years. And he damn-sure won't be going to one of those ass-fucking penal institutions that he deserves.
16th January 2009 at 11:51 pm | permalink |@ian did you just write off the atrocities of the world as…"thats the way its always been"? if so, thats probably the saddest thing i've ever heard in my life.
@kavan about the small crime getting small punishment, stealing bread counts as a strike by the way. i know of a person whose 3rd strike was petty theft of something like ground beef. but i applaud you for pointing out how fucked up our criminal courts system is. Like the fact that possession of crack (poor people's drug) is a multi-year offense, while cocaine (rich people's drug) is a fine of sorts.
and finally, i really hope Obama just keeps his word and spends the first hundred days of his presidency going through the laws Bush passed and repeal anything unconstitutional. asking the president to prosecute his predecessor is kind of a lot, leave that to vincent bugliosi.
17th January 2009 at 2:27 am | permalink |@ian: Well yes. But me, being the pollyanna I am, keep hoping for something better. ;-)
@grimbles: Making you hate me feels like an accomplishment, for some reason. hahahaha
@Kavan: Yeah, guaranteed any time Madoff serves will be in a "country club" high budget penitentiary. And BushCo? No time. I almost guarantee it. (I would say "I guarantee it" but I'm not the gambling sort, and there's maybe, possibly, a chance in hell otherwise. ;-)
@morgan: Yeah, see, Ian's point is more or less the same point I've been making most of my life. I just keep thinking things are getting better … and for the most part they are. :-) It's just weeks like this in the news that make me think maybe not. And that depresses me.
17th January 2009 at 3:41 am | permalink |@Ian
Although you are right i think i may have missed your point.
is it:
a) The world doesn't have a hope and it never will so let's hang ourselves now?
b) Now we have recognsed this pattern we can do something about it?
c) Just pointing it out, that will never change, pass another beer?
Not dissagreeing, just wondering what your position is on what we should do now.
and I agree with morgan, if ths exercise does end up with us just writing off all that is wrong with the world since it's happened before (the singular worst argument in the history of anything ever) then that is the new number 1 sign the world is fucked. I thought we were the "good guys".
Yes yes, im an unrealistic hippie, whatever.
17th January 2009 at 7:20 am | permalink |@Steve
In analyzing Ian's comments, it looks like you have the pessimist covered in (a), the optimist covered in (b), & the cynic covered in (c). However, you're leaving out (d), the realist. Perhaps Ian is simply refuting the title of the author's commentary (i.e., whether the world is actually going to hell or not), because things in the world have *always* been this way & will continue to be this way long after we're dead and gone 10,000 years down the line…?
17th January 2009 at 10:12 am | permalink |[...] but since I love this writer and her wonderful outrage, I have to provide a link to her article, Top 10 Signs the World is Going to Hell. Her introduction: "Seriously, every time I get an idea for a good post topic lately, I hear [...]
17th January 2009 at 3:45 pm | trackback from Going to hell? « Endless Curiosity"@ian did you just write off the atrocities of the world as…"thats the way its always been"? if so, thats probably the saddest thing i've ever heard in my life."
Yes – but thats my way – all those major atrocities that are being carried out because of mans greed and lust for power are probably beyond the control of individuals – however each time you point out these horrors and get another person to think about them in a different light lowers the chances of the next occurence. This was my ineloquent way of saying you may not be able to change the world on a grand scale – but every small change helps the world become that better place that we all look to create.
"@ian: Well yes. But me, being the pollyanna I am, keep hoping for something better. ;-)"
See the above answer – I failed, I think, to put my true feelings into my written words.
@steve
a) no
b) yes
c) no
This is f-ckingc-nts.com as far as I can see the only reason for its existence is to point out those cunts who perpetrate the iniquities highlighted above.
Everytime a cunt is told that they are a cunt the world becomes a better place – all the time someone agrees with the cunt for their own gain the world is demeaned.
I'm an unrealistic old punk(hippie or insert your own label for those who actually want to change things for the better) too.
17th January 2009 at 4:59 pm | permalink |1. The middle east hasn't been peaceful for a long time, and it won't be peaceful until the involved parties actually want peace. Which I don't think is likely to happen any time soon.
2. Yes, Zinbabwe is thoroughly fucked. Robert Mugabe probably wouldn't have done any good, he seems to be more interested in being president than in the nation. He's 84, so hopefully the unfucking will get started when he's dead.
3. This is the kind of thing that erodes the belief in the law being fair. It -needs- to be fixed asap.
4. Barack Obama got elected, but murderous racist cops hasn't quite gone away yet. Not yet, but hopefully soon.
5. That's stupid. Apparently neither politicians nor economists know enough about economy to keep the economy running. Go figure.
6. Considering that Taliban made it illegal for women to work and illegal for women to show any more than their eyes while outdoors, it's no surprise that there's at least one loon around that just can't deal with it all.
7. I still haven't figured out why someone thinks the system isn't fucked.
8. Over here, the government can just go and decide those things, so they did. A few people complained that they had to buy a converter in order to keep watching TV. Once people started seeing for themselves how much the quality improved, the complaints disappeared.
9. While there is a difference between being above the law and being given amnesty, it isn't a difference I can appreciate in this case.
10. Narcissist.
18th January 2009 at 3:47 am | permalink |10: Q. "Who is he talking to?"
A. His gay porn audience.
18th January 2009 at 4:38 am | permalink |@ian: "Everytime a cunt is told that they are a cunt the world becomes a better place – all the time someone agrees with the cunt for their own gain the world is demeaned."
See, that's exactly it. People ask what the point of doing this site is, why I think anyone wants to hear it, how I need to get a life, blah blah blah. But that right there is exactly it.
The more people are talking about something, the more other people will be prompted to think about it differently, the closer we get to the day where people will stop putting up with something. Women didn't get the vote overnight, blacks didn't get anything resembling equal rights over night … but things keep heading ever so slowly uphill, and it all starts with talking about it.
@Secateur: 2. Yeah, Mugabe's the asshole who shut the hospitals down and let the water system go to shit in the first place … he's clearly no help. But the vacation thing is just a sort of "adding insult to injury" thing. Someone ought to give the old fucker cholera, and sit and watch him die.
@Becca: AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! I don't even want to contemplate someone paying to watch that freak. Oh dear motherfucking stomach-churning gawd.
18th January 2009 at 4:43 pm | permalink |Sir Gerald Kaufmann on Israel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2vV5qOf5YQ
…and on 4; I've noticed A LOT of police violence lately, I don't know if it's just the reporting being more 'in the people's hands' about it today, or what, but from an outside perspective – it seems like the police kill off people seemingly at random, and *for fun*, about once or twice a week in the US?!
Not to mention that they're using their newfound taser toys like bloody pez dispensers.
18th January 2009 at 5:00 pm | permalink |It seems like the trend is, if it ever truly was different anyhow, going more and more towards _overtly_ controlling the populace through fear of blunt physical power/force.
@ian: "Yes – but thats my way – all those major atrocities that are being carried out because of mans greed and lust for power are probably beyond the control of individuals "
I'd say it's not as simple as greed in the case of Gaza. Yes it is about power, but it also about the ability to 1. release a lot of pent up anger at being held mostly in check for years 2. a way to go "fuck with us and we'll annihilate you." It is also their last licks before the US Gov't under Obama no longer gives them pretty much a free pass to do whatever the hell they want.
To write off all bad acts to simple greed and lust for power really overlooks a lot of the motivations humanity has for its actions. It is over-simplifying many motivations.
As for the bailout, it's about them making sure they can get the cash that was promised before the shit hits. The next year is going to be bad, very bad really. They want the money while they can get it and use it.
Social Security is going to be fine for a long time btw. The fear mongering about it going belly up was just that, designed to let bushco privatize it. SS will be fine until at least 2041.
They are going after Madoff hard. They want him in jail but the judge refuses to revoke bail. Right now he is under 24 hour armed watch at his home. They are worried about what he is doing to dissipate assets. Don't confuse what the judge is doing with what the fed. prosecutor wants. Remember there are two branches at play here, one is trying to protect his rights as a citizen under the constitution. And so far his bail agreement is as tough as they get under white collar crime. Sucks sure, but that is the system.
The TV thing is amusing actually. Considering all the nutballs I am not surprised about extending it. As far as problems go though it's not even a blip.
18th January 2009 at 11:26 pm | permalink |[quote]To write off all bad acts to simple greed and lust for power really overlooks a lot of the motivations humanity has for its actions. It is over-simplifying many motivations.[/quote]
I do like to try and reduce things to the bare bones.
Let's take a motivation like revenge – it is basically anger at what someone has done to you (or your people) – when you look at what has been done to you, you invariably find someone else's greed or lust for power is at the root of it.
[quote]They are going after Madoff hard. They want him in jail but the judge refuses to revoke bail. Right now he is under 24 hour armed watch at his home. They are worried about what he is doing to dissipate assets. Don't confuse what the judge is doing with what the fed. prosecutor wants. Remember there are two branches at play here, one is trying to protect his rights as a citizen under the constitution. And so far his bail agreement is as tough as they get under white collar crime. Sucks sure, but that is the system.[/quote]
That is good to hear – we need white collar criminals of this type to go down big time – it might make a few of his lesser brethren think twice about it. I thought perhaps the death penalty would be suitable but then I thought that was a bit extreme so how about he does a days work for each of his victims (I'm sure they could find him some interesting things to do).
If you want some indications that things have got better over the years here are a few headlines we could have seen if they hand't.
1. "Five more witches burnt in Philadelphia"
2. "Schools to increase canings for children using a pen in the left hand"
3. "Pope encourages governments to raise fines on those not attending Sunday church services"
4. "Senate looks to reduce food rations in workhouse to cut costs"
.. I'm sure you could all think of some similar ones.
19th January 2009 at 10:37 am | permalink |@ian – Revenge motivations have all sorts of things. Two people argue over something dumb, they get into a fight and one is killed accidentally. I don't think you can call that situation about power per se. It was an accident. Someone wanting revenge on the person has nothing to do with power or greed. It's about vengeance.
And I think Madoff will get his. I'd like to see him behind bars but I also don't want to see his rights ignored because of what he did. The death penalty is a bit harsh ;). Reparations for sure. Jail time, definitely.
19th January 2009 at 11:26 am | permalink |@Larry
Your point about revenge is good – revenge over an accident doesn't fall into the categories I originally thought about.
The question is was the vengeance caused by someone's greed in the first place or was it really accidental?
19th January 2009 at 4:05 pm | permalink |@Zef: Brilliant video. :-) And as for tasers? One of the 'theories' about what happened to poor Oscar Grant is that the officer mistook his gun for his taser. Seriously. In which case, the guy needs to be banned from ever carrying/owning either a handgun or a taser ever again.
@Larry: "SS will be fine until at least 2041"
Well, that point was mostly about social services in the US in general … but as for SS, if you're correct and nothing is done to fix things, SS will be conveniently imploding right about the time I'm due to collect. ;-)
Was BushCo fearmongering about how soon Social Security is going to collapse? Sure. But the fact that there is a definite long-term imbalance between deposits and withdrawals with the boomers coming 'of age'? That's just basic math. ;-)
"his bail agreement is as tough as they get under white collar crime"
And THAT is the big problem. That and the judge is softheaded if his bail hasn't been revoked for trying to hide his assets while under house arrest.
Oh and the TV thing? That's not a "problem," per se … just an irritating symptom of the state of society these days. ;-)
19th January 2009 at 5:14 pm | permalink |@Alpha: The concept of a Jewish national home in Palestine goes back to historical and religious ties that date back to 1200 B.C. After 2000 years of dispersal, Jewish immigration to Palestine started in earnest in 1882. By 1946, there were over 608,000 Jews in the region.
The United States supported the Balfour Declaration, which favored the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine all the way back in 1917. If not for British opposition, Israel would have reestablished a home in Palestine almost 100 years ago.
So no, we did not "stick" Israel in the middle of it in 40's. Israel, for all intents and purposes, has been in the middle of it for about 3,000 years.
23rd January 2009 at 6:01 pm | permalink |@Haden: Yes, I'm actually aware of all of that … but the legal establishment of the state of Israel, rather than the fact of Jews living in Palestine, is quite a different situation than what previously existed.
For Jews to believe Israel is their homeland, and live there alongside the Arab residents is one thing. For a country to be legally created and handed to one group of people when another group of people is also living there (and has been throughout history) is quite another.
23rd January 2009 at 6:37 pm | permalink |OH MY GAWD. That muscle man was so gross. Does he really beleive that we have never seen that much muscle on one man. Please, and if I ever have to see him tweek his nipples it will be to soon.
29th March 2009 at 9:43 am | permalink |If any of you can manage it, read the book "Tyrants: The World's 20 Worst Living Dictators" if you haven't already…
28th October 2009 at 9:19 am | permalink |Then read how GwB is friends with all of them. Great isn't it? How the US Gvnmt always seems to be funding and helping out the world's worst?
I think the world needs to be ruled under a common government with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the head of the table. Too much to hope for, I know. But hey, we can try.
Too bad we have to let dumbasses like those in the aforementioned book live according to the UDHR. While I believe in the right to life, I also believe you can forfeit that right by certain actions. Like diddling kids, killing people, torturing millions, genocide, raping the country you rule etc…
A bullet would be so much cheaper and quicker :o
The problem with capital punishment is it's pretty fucking final. You better be damned sure that they've done what they're accused of before they get a bullet to the back of the head. Like, beyond the shadow of event the slightest most minuscule doubt. Reasonable doubt just doesn't cut it when you're going to kill someone, given that what studies have been conducted suggest it's somewhere between 70 and 95% certain.
Regarding common government, it's nice in theory but would go to shit. There's far too much power for any group of people to have. At least with national governments, other national governments are somewhat of a check on power. On a smaller scale, imagine doing away with state governments in the 'States. Beyond the constitutional impracticality, it'd be a dumb idea because of massive cultural differences, and you'd just end up with mob rule. Well, worse mob rule. Do that on a global scale and it'll fall apart in no time. A *weak* global federation is the most you can hope for one a practical level, and even that's not likely to happen in out lifetimes, given that the whole international-federation thing is still in its infancy with the EU, and has some serious kinds that need ironing out. Even then, I'm not sure it's such a good idea.
And this is from a guy with the UDHR stuck to his wall >.>
28th October 2009 at 5:38 pm | permalink |