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    The serious form of the impossibility objection is that i... — Carmelics
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    The serious form of the impossibility objection is that it is impossible to form a good state or federation of global magnitude

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    • 1.The weak form of the impossibility objection — that global political union cannot be formed at all — is undermined by existing examples
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    • 2.A stronger objection would target whether such a union could be good, worth pursuing, or free from prohibitive risks
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    • 1.Kant's Perpetual Peace argues a voluntary federation of republics (Völkerbund) achieves peace without requiring a world state with coercive authority.
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    • 2.The absence of a single sovereign global state does not preclude cosmopolitan law governing individuals across borders.
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    • 3.Kant explicitly rejected world government as prone to despotism, showing 'good' global order need not mean unified political magnitude.
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    • 1.Existing transnational institutions like the EU demonstrate that partial, layered political unions can achieve justice-promoting functions without full federation.
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    • 2.The impossibility objection conflates 'global magnitude' with monolithic centralization, ignoring polycentric governance models advanced by Ostrom and others.
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    It is often argued that it is impossible to change the current system of states and to form a world–state or a global federation of states. This claim is hard to maintain, however, in the face of the existence of the United Nations, the existence of states with more than a billion people of heterogeneous backgrounds, and the experience with the United States and the European Union. So in order to be taken seriously, the objection must instead be that it is impossible to form a good state or fede
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