Comments by "Debany Doombringer" (@debanydoombringer1385) on "Can Decentralization Save Humanity? - Why Smaller is Better in Politics" video.

  1. This is the ideas that the US was founded on. It makes change slow so that if it's really a benefit or a detriment that has time to show. If a new idea works, it will be adopted by other states and that will test if it's compatible for all or if it's more limited based on resources available or wealth of the state. If it is found to be a benefit then it will be adopted at the federal level and by that time it's already pretty much been accepted by the majority of the people. It was never supposed to be as it has become with one or two states doing something and then it's forced onto the others by the federal government using party power rather than individual state power or by withholding funding until they comply. States are finally starting to remember that they are supposed to be the power within the country instead of the federal government. Outside of interstate conflicts, money printing, trade, treaties, etc the federal government isn't supposed to have much power. Edit: The closer the people are to their politicans in day to day interactions the more those laws are supposed to affect our day to day life. Each step further removed from the people, the less impact they're supposed to have on our day to day life. There should be vastly different laws and regulations between states all the way down to counties and towns. It was so people could live under laws they want to and those that didn't like them could easily move to an area that better suited them. We were never supposed to be identical to each other.
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  2. Beyond geographic borders wouldn't work and would be impossible to enforce. Someone breaks the agreement, they're half the world away, and would face no consequences due to logistics. You'd have people living nextdoor to one another living by completely different societal rules. If your neighbor is in a group that human sacrifice is allowed but yours forbids it, there's nothing to prevent him from deciding you're who's to be the next sacrifice. I know that's an extreme example, but the point stands regardless of what example you use. They want to be nudist and strut all over the neighborhood that way subjecting their neighbors to things they didn't agree to.
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