@KarlHeinzHasliP Oh, I have no respect for the right of a “people” to self determination, except insofar as a people is understood to be constituted as the individuals who happen to reside between always arbitrary and “poorly drawn” borders. Again, the state is prior to the nation. 1/

@KarlHeinzHasliP The role of states is to render humans’ propensity to a sense of nation consistent with peaceful coexistence, because absent territorially distinct states, or if nation is defined in ways that diverge from territory, it is not. 2/

@KarlHeinzHasliP I would love a world in which much of the world was designated nature preserve in which use of fossil fuels were banned, but something has to do the designating and banning, and that something is likely to be a state or an organization of states if its designating or banning is going to be effective. /fin