World Goverment will give Advantage

I will define advantage as absolute advantage, and disadvantage as absolute disadvantage. If the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, then world government will "give advantage". If the disadvantages outweigh the advantages, then world government will "give disadvantage". I will accept Pro"s definition of World Government, that it is "a single common political authority for all of humanity". My premises for arguing against world government are as such: Loss if individuality: To the everyday man or woman, the world government becomes an abstract concept. It becomes too difficult to participate in worldly issues. Even if systems of voting and lobbying (the cornerstones of democracy) continued to exist, many citizens would discontinue their participation. For this reason, Ancient Greece - the cradle of democracy - never had city units of more than a few hundred people. Famous philosopher H. Taine elaborates this in his writings on Greek culture. This is also why municipal elections have higher participation rates than federal elections. World government will inhibit competition and therefore limit human progress: The Roman poet Horace once said: "adversity has the effect of eliciting talent which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant". History has proved Horace"s point many times through the rise and fall of empires. Civilizations reach its golden years, and then deteriorate rapidly. While analyzing the conditions under which Western Civilization gave birth to scores of genius minds, renowned professor Niall Ferguson proposed the "six killer apps", of which competition is foremost. He wrote that our high standard of living today was largely in part due to the competition between the European states. The European spice race led to growing markets and innovations. While China, having been closed from the rest of the world by Emperor Qianlong, stagnated. The launching of satellites, the evolution of the Ethernet to internet, and the advent of the mobile cell has been propelled by the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union. The emergence from the dark ages into the Italian Renaissance would not have occurred if it was not for the bickering Italian nobles and families, which led to patronage and the accumulation of talent. This is backed by H. Taine in his work on "The Philosophy of Art in Italy". Establish a World Government, and you lower competition and inhibit the human progress. Bureaucracy: The world government increases risk of dictatorship/bureaucracy and loss of human rights. Adolf Hitler was democratically elected as Chancellor and then later became Fuhrer. Unlike Adolf Hitler though, the usurper would not have opponents in other world leaders such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as this is the world government. All it takes is one fanatic to degenerate the world into darkness and chaos. Inequality: Winner of the Nobel Prize in economics Joseph Stieglitz warned America of the dangers of inequality in his book "The Price of Inequality". Dissensions and discord will inevitably arise out of inequality, as they do today in America. Certain people of the Texas state (one of the wealthier states in America) have already spoken about leaving the United States. The schism between the people of the poorer Main Street and the wealthier Wall Street has grown. What is the implication of third-world countries joining the richest countries in the world? The inequality, as one can imagine, will be unbelievably high. The Economist reported that in America 5% of the share of the national income goes to the top 0.01%. But in America, even many of the lower class citizens can afford to watch television. While in Liberia, most people cannot afford clean drinking water. The citizens of the once third-world country will rally against their much wealthier compatriots if they will not share their wealth. But if the richer citizens will have to take responsibility of the poorer ones, they will grumble and complain and threaten to separate from the world government. I look forward to hearing from your reply.