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I think this assumes that everyone would be empathetic unless taught otherwise, and I just don't believe that's true. There are very young children that enjoy tourturing animals and/or smaller children, and they do not always learn this behavior from people around them; sometimes it is just built into them. Can it be unlearned; can empathy be taught to these people? I don't know, but thankfully, they are in the minority.
Even if, though, everyone was born empathetic, I don't see a 'one-world government' ever coming about (short of being united by the Vulcans). This video paints a pretty picture of why it's biologically possible, but realistically it's not going to happen. People are selfish, power hungry beings. Whether they are that way because they were taught to be or not doesn't matter; they are, and they will continue to pass it on. Realistically, how would the current wars over religious and national and financial lines be stopped? Wars that have been raging for very, very long times such as those in Africa and the Middle East (not America's there, but their own)? How would those people ever be actually convinced that all humans are their 'brothers' regardless of what currently separates them?
And even if people could somehow be convinced not to hate other people for arbitrary reasons, they would also have to agree on how this one-world government was to be run. The Democrats and Communists and Fascists etc would have to pick one and go with it. Yeah, right.
Call me skeptical or pessimistic or conservative, but I just don't see it.
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