A global state would have at least three obvious problems. It could easily accumulate uncontrollable power, which it might use to do great harm; it would often be unresponsive to local needs; and it would almost certainly reduce the variety of institutional experimentation from which all of us can learn.
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers
(New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2006), 163.
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