You’re so right. It it could be kept to a debating society, I think it woud be useful. What it has grown into today reveals why it is such a bad idea. In fact it just makes most issues worse today at least IMO.
I was such a fan of Carlos Romulos — the first Sect. General. I had followed his heroics in WW11 and then into the new UN. He would roll over in his grave to see the ineffectiveness of the present UN. Personal greed and human nature. Why can’t some rise above them?