From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Tue Jul 24 2001 - 15:02:00 MDT
From: Michael Wiik <mwiik@messagenet.com>
>>Brian D Williams <talon57@well.com> wrote:
>> I guess it depends on what you mean by globalization (an awkward
>> term) if you mean free world trade, I'm all for it, if you mean
>> world government, I'm completely against it.
>I'm all for free trade, but am curious if such is possible without
>world government. As more and more trade is in the form of
>intellectual property instead of physical manufactured goods, then
>the law enforcement actions necessary to protect the IP holders
>would seem to require increasingly global coordination of
>policies.
I think you answered your own question here, you would need global
coordination of course, but that can be accomplished by
treaty/agreement, no need for a world government.
It's healthy to be multicellular. ;)
Brian
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