Secession and federalism are fairly naive. We already tried those solutions. In the US context it led to slavery and ultimately to a massive armed conflict.
And at what unit do we consider secession acceptable? The Confederacy believed states had the right to secede but not individuals of African descent. Indeed, it was the American South that originally wanted to interfere in the business of the North in order to crack down on fugitive slaves.
As for people with different moral axioms leaving one another alone, good luck with that.
The US and ISIS have different moral axioms but they're both in one another's business.
The world is interdependent, there's just no way around that simple fact.
I don't mean to silence discussions of federalism/secession, it just seems like this is well-trod territory that some people keep bringing up again and again as if it will solve anything. It hasn't and it won't.
And at what unit do we consider secession acceptable? The Confederacy believed states had the right to secede but not individuals of African descent. Indeed, it was the American South that originally wanted to interfere in the business of the North in order to crack down on fugitive slaves.
As for people with different moral axioms leaving one another alone, good luck with that.
The US and ISIS have different moral axioms but they're both in one another's business.
The world is interdependent, there's just no way around that simple fact.
I don't mean to silence discussions of federalism/secession, it just seems like this is well-trod territory that some people keep bringing up again and again as if it will solve anything. It hasn't and it won't.