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Q: What problem does this solve?

A: The "problem" that government officials don't get to throw their weight around and break anarchic, bottom-up, emergent systems that don't kow-tow to them.




I doubt having the UN in charge is preferable in any way to having the US govt in charge.

For all its faults, the US is a democracy where people do have some influence on the political process. The UN is essentially run by ad-hoc coalitions of tyrants.


The US is your democracy not mine.


Actually I'm not a US citizen at all, and still I have a better chance of influencing a decision by the US government than most UN member nations' citizens have in their own countries.




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