The Ethics of World Domination

Throughout the past 70 years the U.S. has been involved in hundreds of conflicts all around the globe. Every time the United States troops are deployed to a foreign country, citizens of the U.S. want to know why. People begin to ask questions like, "what is the purpose of this?" or "what is the nature of our involvement?" Nobody wants to see the strong youth of our nation shipped of to a foreign country …

…every country in the world would have to agree to wave their personal rights in the state of nature and delegate the authority to enforce laws and consequences to one individual or organization. It would be virtually impossible to get every country in the world to enter into such a social compact. Despite that the world still needs to have some sort of order among countries or some of Locke's inconveniences will begin to arise.