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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Case for Getting Rid of Borders--Completely
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/10/get-rid-borders-completely/409501/<snip>
To paraphrase Rousseau, man is born free, yet everywhere he is caged. Barbed-wire, concrete walls, and gun-toting guards confine people to the nation-state of their birth. But why? The argument for open borders is both economic and moral. All people should be free to move about the earth, uncaged by the arbitrary lines known as borders.
Not every place in the world is equally well-suited to mass economic activity. Natures bounty is divided unevenly. Variations in wealth and income created by these differences are magnified by governments that suppress entrepreneurship and promote religious intolerance, gender discrimination, or other bigotry. Closed borders compound these injustices, cementing inequality into place and sentencing their victims to a life of penury.
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What moral theory justifies using wire, wall, and weapon to prevent people from moving to opportunity? What moral theory justifies using tools of exclusion to prevent people from exercising their right to vote with their feet?
No standard moral framework, be it utilitarian, libertarian, egalitarian, Rawlsian, Christian, or any other well-developed perspective, regards people from foreign lands as less entitled to exercise their rightsor as inherently possessing less moral worththan people lucky to have been born in the right place at the right time. Nationalism, of course, discounts the rights, interests, and moral value of the Other, but this disposition is inconsistent with our fundamental moral teachings and beliefs.
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The Case for Getting Rid of Borders--Completely (Original Post)
kentuck
Jun 2018
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safeinOhio
(32,688 posts)1. Imagine....
that.
ret5hd
(20,495 posts)2. We're just a bunch of dogs, pissing on trees to keep other dogs out.
Except dogs are much better than humans.
Money has more rights than humans. Money can travel wherever it wants. Money doesn't need a passport or visa. Money can call any nation on earth "home", no matter denomination or issuing country.
Humans suck.
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace... You...
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/johnlennon/imagine.html
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)4. To prove his point,
I have no doubt that the author doesn't lock his doors and has no problem with any random strangers strolling through his house and occasionally raiding his fridge at any given hour of the day??